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The Safety Series
Interested in improving safety? We have seen
improvements in heavy industrial environments of up to 90% reduction in lost
time injuries within nine months and sustained over the long term.
The solution lies in using the principles of achievement
thinking and learning through enquiry and discovery to involve people 'at
the factory floor' in:
- Identifying hazards and safety issues
- Setting goals for safety improvement
- Monitoring and managing improvements.
The result of years of success in safety improvement
interventions, the Safety Series is a set of practical learning oriented
team discussion exercises that are designed to provoke debate, encourage
learning and build commitment to safety.
These exercises can be facilitated by Team Leaders and
Supervisors as part of the ongoing team meeting process.
Whilst designed with safety in mind, many of these
exercises can be used simply as team development exercises, as they build on
all the principles of effective teamwork.
They each take about 1 hour each. As with our other
exercises, the process involves completing the exercise as individuals and
then in teams.
Some are content specific - teaching specific safety
skills, whilst others are designed to build attitudes and safe behaviour.
As well as the generic exercises described below, we can
custom design ones for your organisation. This has been done for Forestry,
Transport, Chemicals and Food Processing Industries.
The Safety Series includes:
Crises Procedure
Fire
How would you deal with a house fire in the middle of the night? Select the
correct steps and sequence them in the best order.
Wildfire
How would you deal with an approaching bushfire? Select a course of action
and then decide the order of the steps you would take.
Snake Bite
A friend has just been bitten by a snake. What do you do? Rank order the
steps you would take.
First Aid
Traffic Accident
You witness a traffic accident that seriously injures the driver - what
do you do? Select from the available action and prioritise these.
Sand Pile
A large sand pile collapses and buries a young child. Your actions can
save her life. Choose the steps you would take and prioritise them.
Sunday Morning
You find your young child collapsed on the bathroom floor, with an empty
pill bottle next to her. What do you do? Choose and sequence the correct
steps.
Sprains and Strains
How to deal with sports injuries. Asks participants to indicate what
they would do against an expert's answers.
Back Care
Causes of back Injuries
Select the principal causes of back injuries. Provokes discussion on
potential causes and then relates these to the workplace.
The Fine Art of Lifting
How would you handle the lifting of a very heavy package? Asks
participants to select the steps they would take and put them in the correct
order.
Saving Your Back at Work
Do you know what back injuries can occur from various forms of lifting
and back pressure? Ask participants to identify these.
Safety Awareness
Safety Assumptions
Challenges commonly held assumptions about safety. Participants must
identify what assumptions they believe are true and then challenge these.
Causes of Unsafe Practices
Presents typical environmental and attitudinal barriers to safe working
practices and asks participants to rate those that most influence them. Then
action plans improvements to deal with these.
What's the Cause?
Presents typical equipment and process issues that can be barriers to
safe working practices and asks participants to rate those that are most
prevalent in their workplace. The action plan identifies improvements to
deal with these.
How do Ya Tell Someone?
For supervisors and Team Leaders, how would you handle an unsafe worker
when an accident cause all sorts of trouble? Sequence the steps and learn an
effective process.
Content Specific
Care with Chemicals
Discuss safe working practices when working with chemicals, identify
potential hazards and action plan for safety in a chemicals environment.
Ammonia
Developed especially for the meat processing industry, review hazards
associated with working with ammonia and action plan for safe working
practices.
Causes of Accidental Knife Cuts
Again, developed for the meat processing industry, review potential
causes of accidental knife cuts, questions assumptions about such hazards
and puts the learning into action through planning for safe practices.
Causes of Accidental Hand Injuries
As with the knife cuts exercise, but now dealing with broader hand
injuries.
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