
Eye Safety
Our eye safety initiative promotes the importance of maintaining good eye health and avoiding eye injuries in the workplace.
Engaging the workforce to improve worksite safety
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.
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.
To contact the WEST work group, e-mail info@stepchangeinsafety.net
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.
Click here to access the Workforce Engagement Toolkit which is supported by Mintra.
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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Our eye safety initiative promotes the importance of maintaining good eye health and avoiding eye injuries in the workplace.
"TOFS" is a series of industry panel sessions are hosted by Step Change in Safety and covering important and relevant safety issues.
Step Change in Safety is committed to raising and promoting awareness of mental health among the onshore and offshore workforce.
WEST's onshore co-Chairs are:
WEST's offshore co-Chairs:
Download Getting Started - Introduction to Workforce Engagement in SafetyFiletype: pdf
Download Getting Started - A culture of workforce engagement in safety self reflection checklistFiletype: pdf
Download Creating the desire - Poster What does workforce engagement in safety mean to usFiletype: pdf
Download Creating the desire - Workforce engagement in safety survey communications packFiletype: zip
Download Creating the desire - Engaging communications self reflection checklistFiletype: pdf
Download Running the survey - Guide to completing the Workforce EngagementFiletype: pdf
Download Running the survey - Running a survey completion session briefing notesFiletype: zip
Download Understanding the results - Accessing your survey results and focussing on key messages in the survey dataFiletype: zip
Download Action planning - Engaging the workforce in simple and effective action planningFiletype: zip
Download Action planning - Summary of positive behaviours and common obstacles to workforce engagement in safetyFiletype: pdf
Download Feedback - Improvement activity implementation and review self reflection checklistFiletype: pdf
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