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.

How do you train your workers to stay safe around machines? What topics do you need to cover? How do you begin to address them?

Warehouse safety is a major topic when it comes to occupational safety regulation. OSHA takes its regulations very seriously, and if it finds your warehouse in violation of rules relating to the use of pallet racking equipment safety, you’re in for a bad time.

One of the most important parts of managing a safety program is tracking and evaluating progress toward improved workplace health and safety. Key performance indicators or KPIs allow you to do that consistently and predictably.

Who says safety training has to be boring? Safety training should be anything but boring – if you want it to stick, that is.

Safety: there’s an app for that.

When you’re planning your workplace safety program, it’s easy to get caught up in the numbers. You want to reduce accidents by X amount, you want to record Y participation numbers in a given safety training. But if you don’t have a safety strategy when you start the planning process, you may well lose the forest for the trees.

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.

What do you think about when you think of safety? EHS protocols? OSHA regulations? PPE? Chances are, you think about the core, recognized elements of workplace safety. You may not necessarily think about games.