Ask yourself, “How do I get employees involved in the rest of our organization’s activities?”
Getting involvement in safety is not likely to happen unless there is also a climate of involvement in other objectives of your organization. Trying to manage safety by involvement, and other activities in other ways, is not likely to work, at least not consistently.
Typically, other company interests can benefit from an involvement approach as well. It’s been said that, “If you can manage safety, you can manage anything.” Organizations can learn a lot about what they need to do overall by seriously examining how to effectively manage safety through energizing their people in safety processes. Once managers recognize the benefits and involvement becomes expected, participation in safety is more readily achieved