As a company committed to safety, you find yourself walking a tightrope. On one hand, safety is part of your core values. You want to ensure that every employee comes to work safe and goes home from work safe and healthy.

Building a positive safety culture, like building a reputation, takes time. In the words of Warren Buffett, it takes 20 years to build a reputation – and five minutes to ruin one.

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People management and workplace safety often overlap, though many companies don’t know how to navigate this overlap gracefully. That’s because HR professionals are often asked to wear safety hats that they may not be fully equipped to handle, while safety professionals view HR as stepping on their toes.

As a safety professional, you’re used to wearing a lot of hats. Sometimes, it feels like all you do is run in twenty different directions, putting out fires.

How and when a company allows employees to return to work after experiencing an injury or illness is something that many companies don’t plan for until the situation is actually happening, which is unfortunately the wrong time to start thinking about it.

When your employees perform a complex process with a high degree of risk, how do you keep them safe? How do you ensure that they know what to do to perform a task safely?

When safety interactions are prioritized as a useful EHS tool, they help create an environment where workers feel they can speak up and be heard. After all, they’re an opportunity for workers to engage with the EHS team one-on-one, person-to-person.

Safety in the workplace is always important. A safe place of work is one that doesn’t have to worry about having its employees sidelined from the types of injuries that keep them off work for weeks or even months, which creates problems for both the worker and the company itself. This means establishing a solid workplace safety model is crucial for the success of any company.

Workplace safety is an incredibly important goal. So much of your company’s success is tied to preventing disruptive and expensive workplace accidents.