How to INSPIRE Employees to Follow Your H&S Rules on ANY Job Site

[@ricksigler2679]

I felt like I was in a sink or swim situation when I began my first safety management position last year. I am very thankful for two friends that are experienced safety professionals, the co-workers, and my boss for helping me through. I spent a lot of time on the phone after the shift for help. But I did enjoy it most of the time.

[@SafetySpiel]

Oh this makes me so happy to hear! Thanks for sharing! Glad that you have others that are happy to help and support you!

[@Tokenurweed]

Every one of my supervisors need to see this video

[@paulfinlay1602]

Hands down you and Steve are the 2 best safety guys I have ever worked with. Especially when Steve put a certain superintendent in his place. I'm so looking forward to it working with you in the future

[@SafetySpiel]

Thanks brother! Hopefully our paths cross again one day!

[@SteelRainz1]

Great advice. Being a toxic leader is especially bad if you're in safety.

[@SafetySpiel]

Ugh! You are so right! I’ve had a couple in my past I had to deal with 🙄🙄

[@aaronjohnson6312]

This is great stuff! People respond better to positivity and being inspired rather than negativity and blame. You are right on track and I think we as Safety professionals struggle with the battle of making leadership understand this as well. This is great for handling employees, but do you have advice about handling supervisors and upper management?

[@SafetySpiel]

Aw yes - This is definitely something that is a lot harder to do. Sometimes showing them how much money they are wasting by allowing incidents to occur, and everything that goes into an investigation plus workers compensation, etc. is enough to get them to open their eyes. It is usually cheaper than installing proper guards, or whatever it is you are trying to get them to buy into. Not always though, but sometimes this is the trick. It certainly is much harder then getting the field employees to buy into safety

[@beardedhoosierreviews]

I agree with taking them to the side and just talk to them about what's going on. We were having a hard time with people stopping at the sto signs in the warehouse where I work we have safety people on each shift and it was happening across all 3 shift. I'm the lead safety guy on my shift once I talked to a few of them I found out what the problem was and told to not to worry about that. (They were worried about being fired over gap time I told them ha if they actually did that I wouldn't be working there) and that safety is more important almost instantly my shifts incident rate went way down I was call to hr and a zoom call with corporate they asked how I accomplished that because it's the same across all the warehouses. I told them why it was happening and how I fixed it. At first they weren't too happy but I instructed the other shift in my DC we were well below what we were last year they actually redid the time study gave them more time for travel and bam it's so much better

[@SafetySpiel]

Yes! Exactly! That’s all it takes! Sometimes the best solution is the most simple one! So glad to hear it worked out for you!

[@samhiemstra6883]

that was the perfect opportunity to get people to send you some free swag! They don't like gray shirts, then send you some different company shirts. lol.

[@SafetySpiel]

Ah! I missed my chance! 🤣

[@Tokenurweed]

I know my supervisor don’t know shit hate asking questions about safety