Creating a Culture of Safety
Culture Makes the Difference in Safety!
- Culture impacts employee morale, retention and commitment.
- Culture impacts the daily behavior and your company’s overall performance
- Culture defined – “Our way of doing things”
How do you do safety?
- Humans copy and coach and correct each other to fit into the group. As a business owner if you are not modeling, coaching and correcting your drivers someone or something else will.
- Safety must be modeled, coached and corrected in order to have a culture of safety!
Tips for creating a culture of Safety
- More important than what the driver can do is what the driver chooses to do!
There are many qualified drivers who are experts in their field; however safety is not just about knowledge. Safety is about behavior.
The average driver has a crash about once per decade. Drivers tend to dismiss their crashes as unpredictable and unpreventable bad luck or the other involved driver fault.
- Every crash free trip reinforces the driver’s incorrect conclusion that average driving is safe driving. Individual experience is a false teacher.
- Driver behavior is a crucial factor in occupant protection because the most effective occupant device the safety belt works only when fastened.
- You must understand that speed and acceleration appear to produce pleasurable excitement even when no specific destination lies ahead and there is no point in haste.
- Factors at the very core of human personality influence behavior in traffic. In driving behavior social norms play a central role. People drive in a way they think will win approval of those whose approval they desire.