Keeping momentum going Key Points Employees must be empowered to plan, organize, and coordinate their own safety process as their needs dictate. You cannot buy a program and expect it to work at every site. Every employee is an equal partner in the process. There is no boss-subordinate relationship, no rank. Each employee has unique skills to bring to the safety team's mutually shared goal of working in a safe manner.
Management feels that the culture change has made their job much easier.
Empowering the employees to make more decisions has positive results. Employees come to work thinking of working safely and managers have more time to work other issues, confident that safety issues are being handled in a quality manner by the Safety Committee. A strong emphasis is placed on a trusting relationship between management and employees. Recognize that change will be resisted at all levels of an organization.