Throughout the world employers are increasingly aware of the necessity to
create a safe working environment. From mining, to transport, to
manufacturing - in every kind of business and industry - employers are now
legally and morally obliged to protect their employees from injury in the
workplace.
What if your business could implement a safety program that was
inexpensive, simple and could be applied to every kind of task? A safety
program that really worked, saving workers from injury, thousands of dollars
in insurance payouts, time lost through absenteeism and even human lives.
DID YOU KNOW?
Key Statistics from the International
Labour Organisation
Each year around 350,000 deaths occur from workplace accidents.
Each year, approximately 4% of the world’s GDP is lost through
absenteeism, medical treatment, disability and survivor benefits because of
workplace accidents.
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THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR
Keeping it simple. Keeping it safe.
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INTRODUCING A COMPLETELY NEW
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROGRAM
There’s a hundred and one training packages out there in the
marketplace to choose from. Each one is different.
Each one claims to be designed to suit your business.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR works for
everybody.
What is THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR?
Accidents in the workplace are not a mystery. We know why they’ll
happen and quite often we know when they’ll happen. Yet when an accident
does occur, you’ll often hear the cry go up …
“if only I’d known” or “with hindsight I would have
done that differently”. The fact is we do have
the advantage of hindsight when it comes to workplace safety. What we
don’t do is use that hindsight.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR simply and effectively utilises that knowledge. It turns hindsight into
foresight.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR is the only safety program that
features a
unique electronic approach (implemented with mobile phones) that is used by
an employee as a checklist to assess his or her own safety each time a task is
attempted. This then feeds back information to the employer, enabling
better safety monitoring in the workplace.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR
Keeping it simple. Keeping it safe.
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Air travel, despite the risks, is the safest form of transport. Why?
Because it’s one of the few workplaces where nothing is left to chance.
Each and every time before a pilot takes off, he or she goes through a routine
checklist. It’s this simple routine that
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR applies to safety training.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR incorporates two basic learning
principles.
Just how much information can people absorb? Instead of overloading
employees with do’s and don’ts of safety,
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR has condensed the
basic rules of safety down to four.
It’s a checklist which can be easily remembered and applied.
Reduced to its most basic form it can be compared to being taught, as a
child, to cross a road. “Look to the right, look to the left and look to
the right again”. This is repeated again and again until it becomes an
automatic response which stays with us all our lives. Simple, yet effective.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR is just as simple … every
time a person performs a task they
ask themselves four questions …
- Do I know what I’m doing?
- What could go wrong?
- If I perform this task, could anyone else get hurt?
- Is there a chance of causing harm to the environment?
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These questions are the guiding principle behind
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR.
They are the bedrock upon which all training and safety needs are based.
Every time an employee asks themselves these questions they are effectively
pausing to think about what they’re doing. They’re taking time to
look around them and consider the consequences of their actions. This is
critical to safe work practices. But how do you get employees to think about
what they’re doing before they act. This is where the unique electronic
“checklist” comes in. Even when the task is one with which
they’re
familiar (and research shows that this is when most accidents are likely to
happen) employees still have to ask the 4 critical questions and answer them
before they can proceed. If they can’t answer all four questions then
THEY SHOULDN’T ATTEMPT THE TASK. It really is that simple.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR
Keeping it simple. Keeping it safe.
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THE GOLDEN RULES
This same electronic approach may also be used to encourage adherence to a
company's standard operating procedures. We refer to the configuration,
described above, as the “Safety Quiz”, whilst we refer to this
configuration, the reinforcement of standard operating procedures, as the
“Golden Rules”.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR
Keeping it simple. Keeping it safe.
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THE PACKAGE
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR package includes a DVD
(which can be either
a generic version or tailored to your business); printed material explaining
how best to utilise the program and the electronic “checklist”,
which we have called the “H.E.A.D”.
THE SAFETY HINDSIGHT FACTOR
Keeping it simple. Keeping it safe.
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