Companies that care about their employees care about their employees’ safety and will go to great lengths to communicate the importance of working safely. Monthly safety meetings, creative safety contests, safety websites, sharing lessons learned—safety communicators tend to use a variety of methods to distribute procedures and critical safety information to help employees plan and perform work. However, the safety message falls on deaf ears in some cases, especially when employees feel they’re being overloaded with safety information to the point where they are sick of hearing about it. This poses a conundrum for safety communicators: Should they keep pouring on the safety, or should they lighten up? How much is the right amount?
Revised: February 13, 2009 |
Published: June 2, 2008
Citation
Pollari R.A. 2008.Are your employees sick of hearing about safety? Ways to improve how safety is communicated at your company.Occupational Health & Safety 77, no. 6:22.PNNL-SA-58509.