Exactly how do you attain personnel to utilize common sense and do like they are told?

I actually hear this from a lot of businesses. They get that safety and health is certainly "just common-sense in spite of everything", and they're betting that there must be certain willpower (doing as one is informed) surrounding accident reduction. However the majority of companies don’t seem to know ways to get both of these ideas connected mutually and transferring. It is like joining a train to a carriage.



First I will speak a little regarding ‘common sense’. In its most basic form it is for example, ‘it’s not advisable to go around pounding people in the head, when they do not deserve it!’ and ‘stealing money off older people can get anyone into lots of trouble’. However when it gets a bit more complex it begins to diminish just a little in value. By this I suggest it does not normally apply when you're addressing the day to day things we all perform when we are at the job. Some of the things completed in businesses as an example are not necessarily common sense (do not get myself started!), so how can we expect staff to be pushed as a result of an unwavering adherence to it!



So what we can learn out of this is that we cannot set common sense on a pedestal. It depends a lot on what you are, where you originate from, the way you have been raised and how you have been trained and informed, and in all probability a whole whole lot more. What exactly can we can put in its position?



Another concise explaination common sense is the fact that certainly, there are guidelines, general ones in which we have mastered to get on relatively good with each other. If there aren’t universal as well as globally enforceable principles of good judgment in that case it comes down to composing another more valuable set of principles through which we shall survive plus work with one another Within this WORKPLACE!



A few examples of practical rules could possibly be:



In this particular workplace:



We're going to take care of each other (essentially our own safety investment!)



We all will point out objects that could injure us (risk identification)



We all is going to prepare and be trained so that we can do our work safely and securely (training)



We will make completely new individuals learn how we all assume them to behave when they come along (Induction)



We all will all try to avoid mishaps and if one occurs attempt to prevent it from happening again (Accident Investigations)



If someone is actually seriously injured we will first of all take good care of them while they recuperate as well as then attempt to have them back into his or her job. (Rehabilitation and Return to Work)



Now a little regarding DISCIPLINE



It’s rather often seen as a little bit ‘not politically correct’ at present. I don’t hold that view. I define self-discipline as ‘Anything we do which is good and of value either to ourselves or others we do by means of the disciplined application of our skill’. It’s like when you become a member of the army, a great deal is actually made of self-control and for really good purpose. You get killed faster if you don’t comply with the instruction "keep your head down"!

The same principle applies when constructing a frame on a property. When the boss says "do not, under any conditions, attempt to jump across the void in which the stairs will go", he is stating it due to the fact he’s looked at it and knows from experience that it’s too far to jump and if you fall you'll hurt yourself (he’s probably done that!). So those who are disciplined will not jump and therefore will not fall. Simple? However those who are not, will and could NOT fall - this time! However the more regularly they jump the much more likely they are to fall. It’s chances.



So how can we link them? Well, I think that the RULES or procedures we apply must make sense to the people who may rely on them. This means that a) we should write, or else communicate the guidelines with techniques (and languages) that our workers will understand about the things which will hurt them and b) the rules need to be simple, straightforward and simple to apply From the EMPLOYEES. It’s not good asking them to read the HSE Act is it?. K.I.S.S.



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