Best Practices: Building Safety Engagement Through Technology
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Executive Summary
A lack of engagement creates disconnected workers who are increasingly vulnerable to errors. These issues can develop into severe incidents that harm workers’ safety. To prevent this, firms are trying to build a safety culture, where each employee understands the importance of safety and engages in the relevant, role-specific processes to support it. This helps organizations focus on small issues and eradicate them before they become major incidents. This report highlights how consistent and clear engagement across a firm can help create a positive safety culture.Employee engagement is key to establishing a safety culture
Increased visibility and productivity are among the benefits of increased safety engagement
Firms utilize training and technology to help embed a strong safety culture
Technology streamlines safety tasks, providing more time to analyse workplace safety
Figure 2. The layers of an organizational safety culture
Figure 3. Demonstration of how safety engagement creates a safety culture
About the Authors
Zain Idris
Industry Analyst
Zain is an Industry Analyst specializing in EHS digital strategy and corporate spending trends. His research examines how firms are positioning their EHS budgets, considering ...
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Bill Pennington
VP Research
Bill is VP Research at Verdantix, where he leads analysis on the evolving and interconnected landscapes of EHS, quality, AI and enterprise risk management. His research helps ...
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