Below is a short exercise or icebreaker that you can use in your next safety training session. Icebreakers are a great way to energise your safety meeting. They get participants more involved and enthusiastic, and that helps ensure your safety messages are better received and retained!
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DEVELOPING SAFETY CULTURE
This exercise uses a model of safety culture development to show how safety performance improves as the workplace safety culture goes through different phases. It has many different uses, for example, explaining the importance of safety culture in reducing accidents and injuries in the workplace. This exercise can be used to complement training in the areas of:
• Safety management
• Communications
• Safety inductions
• Team building
• Safety planning.
WHEN TO USE THIS EXERCISE
This exercise can be used during any safety meeting, training session, or safety induction.
DURATION
Allow 5 to 10 minutes.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
An overhead or handouts of the model ‘Stages of Safety Culture Development’.
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