Workforce Engagement

The Workforce Engagement Support Team (WEST) works on behalf of the workforce to spread knowledge and promote best practice in order to improve safety. It provides practical guidance to companies to help encourage and improve engagement amongst all members of the workforce, which is essential for fostering safe and healthy working environments.

The workgroup comprises individuals who represent the regulator, the workforce, trade unions, employers and industry associations, and its activities and campaigns are driven by the needs and concerns of the workforce. Engaged workers will feel empowered to raise awareness of unsafe situations, which can enhance a culture of safety at worksites.

Kirstin Gove: Head of Communications

Gillian Simpson: Programme Delivery Manager

Work scope

The mission of the workgroup is to stimulate lateral learning and best practice across the offshore oil and gas industry by involving the whole workforce, with the overall aim of improving safety.

Contact Workgroup

To contact the WEST workgroup, e-mail info@stepchangeinsafety.net

Workforce Engagement Toolkit

Building a workforce in which everyone feels able to actively participate, share their views and free to challenge, is crucial to improving safety and reducing accidents and incidents. Through its Workforce Engagement Support Team, Step Change in Safety provides the Workforce Engagement Toolkit to help companies embed this culture in their organisations.

The toolkit allows companies to measure and improve their levels of workforce engagement at specific worksites and understand strengths and weaknesses, and develop improvement action plans.

Central to the toolkit is a unique worksite survey that asks questions around visibility, communication, involvement, support, challenge and participation. Alongside the survey, a range of supplementary information is also available to download.

WEST can use the collected information to drive focus areas, enhance best practice and continuously improve workforce engagement and safety across the UKCS.

Workforce Engagment Toolkit

Click here to access the Workforce Engagement Toolkit which is supported by Mintra.

Elected Safety Reps

If you are an ESR and would like more information about how Step Change in Safety can support you, visit our dedicated ESR section.

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Workforce Engagement Toolkit Guide

A practical guide to the Workforce Engagement Toolkit

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Workforce Engagement Survey Tool - Quick-start guide

A quick-start guide to Workforce Engagement Survey Tool

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Workforce Engagement case studies

A selection of case studies relating to Workforce Engagement

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14th - 20th September 2020

Seven Days For Safety

A week of workforce engagement - brought to you by Step Change in Safety's Workforce Engagement Support Team (WEST).

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Coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19: Impact on Safety

Step Change in Safety has produced a range of resources to support the industry to respond to the challenges brought by COVID-19 and adapt to the 'new normal'

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Eye Safety

Our eye safety initiative promotes the importance of maintaining good eye health and avoiding eye injuries in the workplace.

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Time Out For Safety "TOFS"

"TOFS" is a series of industry panel sessions are hosted by Step Change in Safety and covering important and relevant safety issues.

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Inclusive Offshore Working Practices

Step Change in Safety and AXIS Network are partnering to develop guidance for operators and the supply chain on inclusive offshore working practices.

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WORKGROUP LEADERSHIP

WEST's onshore Co-Chairs are:

Bob Egan
Workforce Engagement Specialist
Health and Safety Executive
Afolabi Banu
Senior Operational HSEQ Adviser
Harbour Energy

WEST's offshore Co-Chairs:

Steph Sunley
Logistics Supervisor
Spirit Energy
Stuart Mann
BP Clair Ridge HVAC Tech
BP Exploration

Workforce Engagement downloads

Getting Started - Introduction to Workforce Engagement in Safety

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Getting Started - A culture of workforce engagement in safety self reflection checklist

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Creating the desire - Poster What does workforce engagement in safety mean to us

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Understanding the results - Accessing your survey results and focussing on key messages in the survey data

Download Understanding the results - Accessing your survey results and focussing on key messages in the survey dataFiletype: zip

Action planning - Engaging the workforce in simple and effective action planning

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Action planning - Summary of positive behaviours and common obstacles to workforce engagement in safety

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Feedback - Improvement activity implementation and review self reflection checklist

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