How to Encourage Team Participation in Safety Programs

Effective employee safety monitoring systems can’t help your team if they won’t use them. The outcomes of disengagement can be severe, ranging from accidents and injuries to illnesses and even loss of life.

You wouldn’t want this to happen in your workplace but tackling the status-quo culture of ‘this is how we do it’ can present adoption challenges. Even though it may seem difficult, it’s indeed possible to shift your company's attitude about safety and create a positive safety culture.

Promote a Positive Safety Culture

Fostering a positive safety culture starts with promoting attitudes and beliefs that prioritize safe behavior. Ensure your staff understand that management are committed to the principle that everyone should return home in the same condition they arrived at work. Make safety the company’s number one priority.

Recognize, encourage, and celebrate individuals demonstrating a positive attitude towards safety. By doing so, you increase the likelihood of these positive attitudes becoming shared values across the organization, leading to a shift towards a new positive safety culture.

Encourage worker involvement and collaboration to promote safe behavior. Regularly reinforce ‘good safety practices and attitudes’ and foster a sense of ownership and belonging among your workers. This will reinforce the importance of safety in the workplace.

Make Safety Engaging and Collaborative

Create a sense of camaraderie and healthy competition to impact safety initiatives positively. Implement Safety Awards as an engaging way to help workers stay safe while using lone worker systems.

These programs allow workers to log their safe practices and compete with colleagues and companies worldwide. Recognize feature usage or when a worker completes a safe shift, rewarding them with badges, points, and rankings.

Workers can also receive awards for reaching milestones such as completing 10 safe shifts or five safe weeks. Workers are ranked individually, in teams, by company, or country against the rest of the global community using these lone worker systems.

Enhancing Safety with Ok Alone

Ok Alone offers a suite of features designed to not only enhance employee safety but also encourage employee engagement and participation:

Location tracking: Real-time location tracking ensures workers' safety while on the move, providing peace of mind for both employees and supervisors.

Timed check-ins: Employees can confirm their safety at regular intervals, enhancing accountability and safety awareness.

Man-down and emergency alerts: Ok Alone automatically detects emergencies and sends immediate alerts to designated monitors, enabling swift response and assistance.

Panic button and Drive Mode: The panic button feature allows employees to send immediate alerts in emergencies, while Drive Mode automatically checks in workers when they're driving.

Safety Awards: Ok Alone's Safety Awards program incentivizes safe practices and celebrates employees' safety achievements, fostering a positive safety culture within the organization.

Plus, Ok Alone seamlessly integrates with Geotab, providing complete visibility of both vehicle and worker locations through the MyGeotab™ dashboard and map.

The Importance of Active Participation

Active employee participation in safety initiatives is crucial for creating the desired safety culture in your company. This participation entails having a safety solution with frequent check-ins and the ability for staff to call for help. Additionally, it involves promoting a sense of competitiveness and camaraderie while prioritizing safety, which is something your workers will undoubtedly appreciate.