Every employer bears responsibility when it comes to protecting workers' safety and health.
“Research shows that persistent incidents can often be explained by individual attitudes and behaviours.”
Edwin Nys | Client Director Belgium
Particular attention should be paid to activities that pose the greatest risks and can lead to serious or even fatal accidents. These include working at height, working with electricity, with chemicals, lifting equipment, ATEX zones, woodworking machinery, etc.
Besides proper training, the employee's behaviour and additude is also very important. Research shows that lasting incidents can often be explained by individual attitudes and behaviour.
Screen high-risk employees before they enter the organisation.
Screening can be done in many ways. Essential is that it is done fairly and substantiated. At work, employees are confronted with a multitude of different and sometimes conflicting requirements. In reality, a person can only optimise 2 to 3 parameters at the same time.
Factors taken into account in a 'Safety Attitude Screening' (SAS) are the different dimensions of a risk profile, among which risk tolerance, safety behaviour, assertiveness and self-overestimation play a role.
Screen and update existing co-workers
You can also use SAS to screen your existing employees and identify their risk factors. In this way, the SAS acts as a tool that sensitises employees to safe behaviour at work. Sensitisation, coaching or training after screening can then follow so that safety is dealt with constructively.
As a consultant and insurance broker, WTW is well placed to support you in the area of employee welfare. In particular, in evaluating the safety attitude of your employees by using the Safety Attitude Screening (SAS tool). With this approach, you not only take preventive measures for targeted occupational accidents but also in the wider context of employee wellbeing.
SAS is an online (web-based) tool that can help evaluate safety attitudes and predict safety behaviour at work. You identify the risk profile of your (future) employees. This online tool is used when recruiting new employees.
If you would like more information about the Safety Attitude Screening possibilities, please contact us at Dietert Briers or Edwin Nys.
