Too many companies feel like it will cost way too much money to keep workers safe. This presentation was made at the Lakeshore Safety Meeting and demonstrates how a company can decrease risk without breaking the bank

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Improving Safety Without going
Broke
Lakeshore Safety Meeting 2017

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Introduction
■ Housekeeping
■ Who is this goofball and why
should I listen to him?

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Fix Your Process
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 Make things predictable.
 Frequent break downs
create opportunities for
injuries.
 Processes that are out of
control present real
dangers to workers.

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Hire smarter.
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 You don’t need bodies,
you need brains
 Physical or intellectual
incompetence puts all
your workforce at risk

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Train your staff
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 Even a highly skilled and
experienced worker
should be given
instruction to meet your
expectations of how the
job will be done.
 While safety training is
important, core skills
training is even more so.

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Demand safe work practices
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 There is always time to do
things safely.
 Practice what your
preach.
 Involve your workers in
determining safe work
practices.
 Keep it real.

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Provide the right tools and equipment.
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If people aren’t given the
proper tools/equipment they
will improvise

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Demonstrate that you value worker safety.
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 Rewarding “doing
whatever it takes” is
dangerous.
 Recognizing people for
their suggestions for
making things safer
demonstrates that you are
philosophically supporting
safety
 Personally making
decisions with safety in
mind and encouraging
others to do so shows
commitment to safety

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Look for ways to improve safety.
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• Seek ways to reduce or
eliminate risks.
• Encourage workers to
think of safer ways to do
their jobs---they’re the
experts
• Act on their suggestions
• Focus on the simple,
practical, and fast

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Remember there are a lot of right answers.
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 Safety is not an absolute--
-it’s relative.
 The most costly method is
often the least effective

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Questions and Comments
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