How to Foster Employee Engagement in Your Health and Safety Program

Hey there,

Welcome to this week's edition of the Safety First Journal.

This week we're going to look at why employee engagement is critical to your workplace health and safety program and how to foster higher levels of buy-in from your workforce.

Let's dive in.

Here's an uncomfortable truth for many safety managers. You can have the greatest set of workplace safety policies ever written, but those policies and procedures are useless if you can't get your employees to actually follow them.

This is where employee engagement comes in.

Engaged employees are more likely to adhere to safety protocols, proactively identify hazards in your workplace and foster a positive safety culture in your business. This leads to fewer incidents, reduced costs and improved morale.

• A meta analysis by the Gallop Organization found a strong correlation between engaged employees and workplace safety. Organizations in the top quartile of engagement scores had nearly 70% fewer accidents than those with engagement scor…