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4 Steps to Get Employees to Care about Health and Safety

So all your hard work isn't wasted ...

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Dan Moriarity
May 06, 2025
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Safety First Journal.

As a safety professional, how many times do you see situations where there is a procedure in place to work safely, employees are trained and certified, yet they still choose to take risks, rush around and the end result is an incident or injury?

Frustrating, isn’t it?

You can do all the compliance work in the world, but if you can’t get employees to buy in, you will continue to have the same problems over and over again.

I say this often, but safety happens at the front-line employee level, not at the procedure/policy level. If you can’t get employees to buy in to your safety program, your program will fail.

In this week’s edition, I’ll show you 4 steps to building real engagement and ownership among your employees when it comes to your workplace health and safety program.

Step 1 - …

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