Fighting the war on compliance

Safety And Risk Success

Is compliance enough to keep your workplace safe?

This week on the Safety and Risk Success podcast, we're diving deep into the compliance fog and exploring what it truly takes to create a proactive and thriving safety culture.

Join us as we unpack the challenges and benefits of going beyond mere box-ticking and discover how to empower your workforce to embrace safety as a core value.

Highlights:

- The definition of compliance: Compliance with health and safety standards should be an ongoing process.

- Compliance as a trap: Compliance is essential, but it can lead to a false sense of security, box-ticking mentality, and low workforce engagement.

- The compliance fog: The compliance fog refers to a mindset that focuses solely on minimum requirements, sometimes leading to a feeling that “as long as I’m compliant, I’m doing enough”.

- Moving beyond compliance: To truly drive safety, we must go beyond compliance and focus on proactively managing risks, fostering a positive safety culture, and innovating.

- The benefits of moving beyond compliance: Benefits include improved risk management, a more positive safety culture, innovation, and reduced costs.

- The importance of data: Use data to understand the level of risk within your workplace.

- Don’t rely on signs alone: Wet floor signs are a symptom of a problem and shouldn’t be seen as a solution in themselves.

- Consider social impact: When implementing safety measures, consider the social impact of your actions, and how they can potentially affect the people working and interacting within your space.

- Importance of the human element: Human factors play a huge role in safety incidents.

- The importance of a pendulum test: To measure slip resistance and ensure safety, use a pendulum test.

- The importance of going beyond compliance: The safety industry needs to reclaim its expertise and focus on going beyond compliance.

Actions:

- Sign up for a future Safety Roundtable: https://safetyroundtable.co.uk/

- Connect with Christian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-harris-slip-safety/