P&MM, a performance improvement agency, has released a new guide to reveal workable strategies for driving better health and safety practice in the workplace through advanced reward and recognition techniques, titled,‘An advanced guide to health and safety recognition in the workplace’. The guide is targeted at medium to large size organisations with a typical workforce of several thousand people.
Figures for Great Britain (2014/15) show that 611,000 injuries occurred at work – and this is costing UK employers an estimated £14.3 billion a year. The P&MM guide covers a comprehensive range of challenges that are faced by Health and Safety practitioners and HR including: How to drive better Health and Safety practices; where to start in terms of reviewing where you are and where you need to be; setting goals and objectives; measuring KPIs and success.
In a recent ‘Health and Safety’audit carried out by P&MM across 52 organisations, data suggests that there is a significant gap between workplace policies and procedures and what staff actually know. Participants were asked ‘Do you know where to log a Health and Safety concern at work?’ Worryingly the majority of participants (79 percent) said they did not know, with only 21 percent indicating they knew the correct procedures for their company. Perhaps an even greater cause for concern is that when participants were asked ‘Have you ever reported a Health and Safety concern at work?’ Over three quarters of participants (82 percent) stated they had not, with just 18 percent saying they had.
1 http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/
Robert joined the HRreview editorial team in October 2015. After graduating from the University of Salford in 2009 with a BA in Politics, Robert has spent several years working in print and online journalism in Manchester and London. In the past he has been part of editorial teams at Flux Magazine, Mondo*Arc Magazine and The Marine Professional.
