Create a strong workplace safety culture - World Health and Safety Day at Work

Ahead of World Health and Safety Day at Work, it’s vital that businesses understand the importance of the campaign’s aim – to highlight the extent of work-related deaths and injuries and promote how creating a safety and health culture can reduce this – and how they can introduce this in their businesses. Change across hospitality, catering, manufacturing and operations industries will only stick if businesses take action to ensure they’re effectively creating a strong safety culture at work.

Frontline workers make up 80% of the global workforce and are at the heart of UK businesses. Despite this, they’ve been historically underserved when it comes to technology, which is a huge facilitator of a high quality and safe working experience.

The success of any safety strategy is underpinned by leadership and efficiency. It’s up to leaders to encourage people to speak out when they feel unsafe or when protocols aren’t met. However, recent research from SafetyCulture shows that British frontline workers don’t feel listened to on important topics like safety and operations. It’s time for leaders to go out of their way to motivate staff to call out what’s not working and listen to the feedback.

Empowering staff members with easy-to-use technology can go a long way towards improving their effectiveness in carrying out safety protocols. By equipping them with the tools and autonomy to drive initiatives forward, we can help make increasingly stringent regulations easier to follow. Platforms such as iAuditor can help staff perform checks, report issues, and collect on-the-ground data in minutes. It’s far simpler for staff to raise a safety breach in an app than work through layers of management.

As the industry battles staff shortages following COVID and Brexit, it is more important than ever that stretched teams, and especially lone workers, feel heard and safe. Cloud-based lone worker safety apps such as SHEQSY, ensure lone workers can provide real time alerts for missed check-ins, failing to finish a job as planned, and quick duress alarm activation quicky and easily. This allows for a much feel safer working environment, and allows businesses to easily manage employee safety.

Bio: Nicky Chenery, General Manager, EMEA, SafetyCulture

Nicky Chenery is General Manager for EMEA at SafetyCulture, a global technology company helping working teams get better every day. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to give workers a voice, leaders visibility and unite teams to improve.

More than 28,000 organizations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, report issues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.

About SafetyCulture

SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve every day. More than 28,000 organizations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, report issues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.

Recent analysis by Forrester found that SafetyCulture’s flagship products provide a 214% return on investment for customers, and USD $3.6M in cost savings from operational improvements.

Customers of SafetyCulture’s award winning products include the likes of Shell, United Nations, Virgin Active, Cathay Pacific, Mars and BP Chargemaster.