#Safety culture
Development of a proactive safety culture in production: mindful leadership, motivation programs, contractor engagement, and addressing the human factor. Transitioning from reactive oversight to integrated risk management practices.
Safety Curators: An Important Element of the HSE System
Introduction of the safety curators institution to overcome stagnation and develop safety culture. Curators act as mentors and a link between the HSE system and production departments, using line walkdowns, behavioral audits, and practical training.
From Dry Bulletins to Real Stories: How the "Matter of Chance" Video Series Shapes a Conscious Safety Culture
Instead of dry newsletters, the company launched a video series titled "Matter of Chance", in which employees share personal experiences of injuries and safety rule violations. Real stories and candid emotions from colleagues make risks tangible and force one to think about consequences before taking risky actions. This approach helps bridge the gap between formal informing and the formation of a conscious attitude toward safety.
Occupational Risk Assessment: A Crucial Element of the HSE Management System
Occupational risk level assessment allows employers to systematically influence the creation of safe working conditions and the preservation of workers' health. The article explains why involving the organization's own employees helps to move away from a formal approach and make this procedure a "live" mechanism for ensuring safety. Constant monitoring and feedback from personnel allow timely adjustments to risk reduction measures.
Side Rearview Mirrors: A Distance That Costs Lives...
The article explains why the inscription “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” is applied to the right side mirror of a car and how the convex shape of the mirror expands the field of view. Due to the characteristics of the spherical mirror, the driver can make a mistake in estimating the time to collision by 0.5 seconds. The material describes the purpose of this safety measure and reminds of the need to additionally check “blind spots” by turning one's head.
Conscious Safety. Myth or Reality?
The material examines an approach to conscious safety in production, formed through the knowledge and skills of the employee. The author analyzes key types of attitudes toward rule compliance — 'prisoner', 'vacationer', and 'partner'. The publication helps to understand how a personal choice in favor of safety affects professionalism and the preservation of employees' lives.
Psychological Tools for Conducting Targeted Briefings
The article considers the human factor as one of the main causes of occupational injuries and proposes moving to a qualitatively new level of safety. The author explains how conducting targeted safety briefings in the form of an active dialogue and with a positive emotional background helps manage employee attention. The material shows that changing the format of safety briefings allows workers to independently identify risk factors and consciously apply safety measures.
Focus on Risks: A Practical Approach That Changes Safety Culture
The article tells about the project "Focus on Risks" — a practical training system that helps shift attention from responding to incidents to preventing them. Using a three-step algorithm, employees learn to notice, assess, and eliminate workplace hazards before they lead to accidents. The use of this approach turns compliance with safety rules from a formality into a daily work habit and helps form a sustainable safety culture.
The Art of Safety: How to Turn Rules into Artworks
At Vorkuta LPUMG, an unconventional approach was applied to integrating safety culture into the daily lives of employees. Street art artist Sergey Volgin created a series of 12 paintings illustrating the Key Safety Rules of PJSC Gazprom. The paintings were placed in shift residential complexes and recreational areas, allowing workers to constantly see and remember the rules in an informal setting.
A Game Against Violations
Game-based learning in the field of occupational health and safety allows translating complex instructions into the language of practical dilemmas. In the safe space of the game, employees can make mistakes without health risks, explore cause-and-effect relationships, and find solutions together. This helps participants understand the internal logic of regulations and make a choice in favor of safety without preachy lectures and constant supervision.
Safety Minutes: How 5 Minutes Change HSE Culture
The article talks about the practice of "safety minutes"—a five-minute live dialogue in the field where colleagues discuss production risks as equals and with specific examples. Open discussion of real-life stories and other people's accidents shatters the myth of immortality among experienced workers, builds trust in management, and helps apply occupational health and safety rules in practice. As a result, short meetings become a daily ritual and a living tradition, in which employees themselve...
Real-Life HSE
The author shares personal experience working as an occupational health and safety specialist with three types of employees and their different perceptions of safety rules. The material shows how individual tactics — from analyzing archived accidents to paying attention to the health of office workers — help build effective interaction. The article explains why the specialist's task is not control, but integrating safety into the work culture of production.
How to Make Content Viral and Engaging?
Konstantin Ermolaev, Head of the Safety Culture Promotion Department at Nornickel, continues a series of video notes with practical observations on building effective communications in occupational health and safety. The latest episode examines the topic of creating engaging and viral content. The video note demonstrates practical approaches to shaping communications for promoting a safety culture.