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Workplace safety quotes are both a useful and fun way to encourage and remind your workers to keep the workplace safe.  As mentioned in other articles employing new methods of maintaining workplace safety is an important aspect to “making the swtich” to a safe workplace or simply to maintain your workplaces current level of safety standards.  Your employees require a never ending reminder to keep the workplace safe.  There are only so many choices when it comes to decided what steps you plan to incorporate into your workplace safety promotion tools. 

Safety Quotes For The Workplace.

What is meant by “workplace safety quotes”?

Workplace safety quotes are just that. Short, funny, aniquedotal quotations that you can share with coworkers and employees.  Post your safety quotes that are most relevant to each position in the workplace closest to those employees work stations. Create a few tests that you can pass around for employees to take where they have to memorize these quotes and regurgitate 5 to 10 of them on occasion to keep them fresh in their minds.

Here are some examples of safety quotes for the workplace.

• A danger foreseen is half avoided.
• A fugitive from the laws of averages–that’s you if you don’t use your safety gear.
• A safer you is a safer me.
• A spill, a slip, a hospital trip.
• Accidents hurt — safety doesn’t.
• Alert today. Alive tomorrow.
• An accident can ruin your career.
• Be alert–accidents hurt.
• Be alert, be aware, be alive.
• Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
• Don’t be safety blinded, be safety minded.

Do you know some catchy safety quotes for the workplace?  Share them with us!  Leave a comment and let us know the best safety quotes that you have heard throughout your carreer or perhaps some you have made up yourself!

Promoting workplace safety can be a difficult strategy to adopt if you do not already have an outline for promoting safety in the workplace. More time consuming than managing your employees can be convincing them to adapt to new ideas and train them to go about their whole work day with a fresh outlook. Where once they saw an every day average scene at the office, they now notice things once unseen and take appropriate action. Constant reminders can in the beginning make for the best approach to safety promotion in your workplace. Existing employees will need more of a reminder to follow new safety guidelines that new employees as they will need time to change their mindsets. Scheduled safety meetings make for an excellent way to keep everyone up to speed on what regulations they need to be aware of and what is changing or going unnoticed in the workplace. Promoting workplace safety must start at the top and work its way down! Safety is a team effort and as such requires the coordination and commitment of you and your staff.

Steps to Promoting Workplace Safety

• Get your employees attention!
• Schedule Safety Meetings
• Make sure you have a safety manager
• Workplace safety policies start at the top
• Use reminders for your existing employees
• Incorporate safety training into new hire training programs

What else can you do to keep promoting workplace safety?

In addition to these and other methods of increasing the awareness of best safety practices in the workplace you should not overlook “morale boosting tactics”. Place signs around the workplace in places visible to your employees and somewhere where they will constantly be remade aware of your policies. One excellent example of this many times can be found in restaurants where you can find a sign hanging on the interior of the kitchen door as a constant reminder to everyone who exits the room. Even if the connections to these signs are only sub conscience that is alright, your employees will be always absorbing this until it becomes second nature.

Later we will discuss some additional ways to continually help promote safety in the workplace.

As always feel free to share any thoughts you may have about how to increase the safety awareness of your employees.

Why is work place safety so important?

How important is it?

Well, if the six construction workers that have died to date at the City Center complex, currently under construction on the Las Vegas Strip, could come back from the dead, I’m sure they would be able to give you a better answer than this writer.

Workers (employees), they are any businesses most valuable asset.

If one or more employees are hurt or injured in the workplace and not able to work, the remainder of the workforce will have to pull together to “pick up the slack” for those that have become sick or injured on the job.

Injured workers also affect the employer. The employer could incur the cost for temporary workers or overtime pay. Management, too, plays an important role. They must show the frontline employees how important worker safety is to everyone. Safety contributes to the bottom line and over all profit sharing in a company.

How do you maintain safety in the workplace?

Team work. Management and front line employees working together.

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) requires the employer to analyze the work areas and the employer must keep this annual record in writing.

One example of how a change in the workplace can affect employees is in a restaurant. A new manager is hired and they decide that waitresses and/or waiters should carry dishes on their arms rather than on a tray. This can result in employees getting burned by hot plates. A new hazard not experienced prior to the change in management.

OSHA describes a job hazard analysis as a technique that focuses on job tasks to identify hazards before they occur.

The job analysis should have at least 3 steps:

1. Activity

2. Equipment

3. Materials to be used

It should show responsibilities for:

1. Supervisors - are responsible for providing each employee with the appropriate Personal Protection Equipment as required by OSHA.

a. Supervisors are responsible for insuring the employees are conforming to the employer’s safety guidelines. This compliance is necessary and it requires the supervisor to follow up in writing all violations. In the future we will discuss violation write-ups.

2. Workers - are responsible to use the PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) and should be advised that a safety violation could be issued against them if they do not use the PPE. Some workers compensation claims can make the employee responsible for 25% of the incurred medical expenses for the violation. Employees are required to work in a safe manner. All safety issues must be reported to management immediately. A report of any injury cannot be longer than 6 days following the injury. Keep in mind that an injury could be subrogated against a third party for the injury that occurred.

It is recommended that the names of supervisors, managers, or front line workers who contributed to the safety workbook be listed. Everyone loves their name in print and it encourages future safety suggestions by the department workers. Their contribution could be a safety award at company meeting that recognizes the individuals’ safety suggestions in the workbook. Safety in the workplace is recognized and continues the employers OSHA compliance.

With the job analysis, a safety-operating guide should be given to the employees to show workplace safety facts.

Another example would be:

SOG (Safety Operating Guide) on Building Grounds:

Here is a sample:

1. Always check MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) for chemicals used in cleaning. These show you the necessary PPE required for each chemical in use.

2.Disposal must be environmentally safe. EPA (Environmental Protection Act) could require oils spill cleanup be placed in plastic or metal drums in an outside protected area.

3. Disposal of any blood borne pathogen clean up must be placed in a special disposal container and cannot be disposed with regular trash pick up.

4. Fluorescent lights cannot be placed in a trash dumpster but in a fluorescent disposal box and tagged with information when it was placed in the container.

Note: All of these above require a written record of when and who recycled this type of trash. Without this knowledge being given to your new employees or seasoned employees who could be reassigned duties, the knowledge and workplace safety facts could be forgotten.

Our safety operating guidelines will be continued in a future article, including free safety poster suggestions, workplace safety quizzes and free games about safety in the workplace.

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