The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced it is keen to get employees to take a more proactive approach to health and safety in the workplace.

Research from the group reveals that getting workers involved has a positive effect on health and safety performance and that sites where this is encouraged are better places to work in this respect as a result.

It claimed that accident rates where staff feel they have a “genuine” say in health and safety matters stand at 14 per cent, compared with 26 per cent where workers do not feel as involved.

The HSE is set to speak on the matter at this month’s Trade Union Congress conference in Liverpool, where it will comment on its strategy to get staff more involved in health and safety issues.

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Training up your H & S leads and team leaders to facilitate reviews of health and safety events and practice within their teams and to jointly generate ideas and identify opportunities to continue to improve health and safety, hence keeping H & S on the agenda, keeping it dynamic and helping to make H & S an integral part of everyday working practice throughout the business.

facilitate this! will also help to improve the impact of Health and Safety training offered within your business. By commissioning our 'Trainers as Facilitators of Learning' workshop we can take your internal H & S trainers and work with them to review and redesign their training workshops and enhance their skills in facilitation in order to enhance participation and maximise impact of H & S training events, changing hearts, minds and practice in the process. Call us!

The Government has taken employee engagement to heart initially by forging a partnership with the Chartered Management Insitute and with the vision to encourage more employers to understand, introduced and reap the benefits of employee engagement throughout their workforce. Click on the link below for an article heralding the new partnership - but please! not before learning about what facilitate this! has to offer to help establish firm foundations for your engagement efforts.

First a questions... 'Are you confident that your first line management team have the skills to facilitate employee engagement?' To us that includes the ability to foster co-operation and collaboration; to embrace divergent points of view and share decision making; to strengthen relationships and build commitment to deliver on key business objectives... Facilitation competencies include the design and management of meetings, how to maximise participation and resolve conflict, tools and methods to promote engagement and support collaborative decision making and the ability to lead a review of group progress and process (how people work together). If you could benefit from more people having more of these skills then contact us. We can offer one and two day in house programmes and more to help get and keep that loving feeling when it comes to employee engagement.  Give us a 'ring'!


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