How do you set your safety goals? How do you decide on the focus of your safety programs?

Hazards are a part of every workplace. But although hazards are always going to be a facet of your work environment, employers have a responsibility to their employees to provide a workplace reasonably free from harm.

Having a robust lockout/tagout program which includes a well-rounded training program is the best way to help keep your employees safe while performing maintenance tasks on equipment.

As they say in the theater, “The show must go on!"  If you think about it, keeping up with your safety program isn’t really any different, is it?  Maintaining your safety program and ensuring safety regulations are being followed are necessary to keep workers safe, regardless of what’s going on in the world.

Do you know what you need to do when an accident happens in the workplace? Taking swift, decisive action is important to ensure the best possible outcome in the event of an incident. And knowing what order you should do things in is as important as knowing what to do in the first place.

Safety pays – in this case, literally. Since the dawn of workplace safety, employers have tried to find ways to motivate employees to engage in safe behavior. They know that employees are under pressure to perform and that productivity and safety are often viewed in opposition. But they also know that their businesses cannot afford to ignore safety in favor of productivity.

Your employees are the root of your business. They’re also the foundation of your safety program. Without them, even the best EHS team in the world can’t make a safety program succeed.

Your safety culture is the core of your safety program, the engine that keeps it moving forward. That’s because a successful safety culture isn’t built around rules or equipment – it’s built around the people you’re trying to protect.

As a safety professional, your job revolves around your peers. You have to train them, provide them with the right tools, and ensure that they’re performing their jobs in the safest manner possible.

It’s a brand new year, a new decade, and a fresh opportunity to learn from the safety errors of last year.