A Matter of Trust: How to Evolve and Manage Worker Health & Safety

A safety culture comes down to establishing a deep trust between the company and the workers.

Top safety leaders create a safety culture that shifts from a minimum requirement of compliance to a workforce where employees are committed to working safely. Safety leaders know that safety starts and ends with the people. It’s not about the confusing jargon, acronyms, abbreviations, and the piles and piles of paperwork. It’s about the deep trust that exists between the company and the workers.

Safety leaders agree that compliance is important. Compliance is the rules, regulations and laws that are necessary for a safe workplace. For this article I spoke to three safety to leaders to better understand how they moved from understanding and knowing the rules and regulations to being committed to operating safely always. It all comes down to trust!

Trust is the ability to be open, vulnerable and courageous based on positive expectations. It’s based on five tenets of trust.