Safety Margin

A Safety Margin is all the protection you provide. It insulates a person from danger while performing work

Benefits of the Safety Margin for Getting People to Buy Into Safety

The big challenge we face implementing safety is first getting people to buy into safety. Our solution is to focus your people on their Safety Margin. It’s a concept that explains safety.

Here’s why it’s beneficial for you:

  • The Safety Margin concept makes safety easy to understand. That means people are more likely to buy into safety and engage.
  • The Safety Margin is the true dependent variable of safety. Impacting your Safety Margins is a proven strategy for improving overall safety results.
  • The Safety Margin aligns leaders, managers, supervisors, and employees. When they all share the same mission, they position themselves to improve safety results.

Provide an Easy Concept to
Understand Safety

Everyone knows the purpose of safety is to protect people from harm.

But your approach, or how you implement safety inside your business, is where safety results are won or lost.

The first solution towards becoming adept at implementing safety is to provide a concept everyone can understand. They need to understand the target.

The right target in safety is having a Safety Margin while working. People buy into this concept because it’s about  their protection and well-being. When they buy into the concept of safety, then they are more likely to engage.

Impact the Dependent Variable

When you run a business, employees interface with risk during the work tasks that make your product or provide your service. This is the critical hot spot where safety meets risk.

A Safety Margin insulates an employee from danger or risk while they perform their work task. It’s all the protection combined together to avoid an accident.

A Safety Margin is the correct dependent variable of safety that can improve your safety results. Your safety processes become the independent variables that impact the Safety Margin.


Aligns Your Organizational Levels

When all four organizational levels within the business align their efforts towards delivering Safety Margins, then safety can get momentum.

Leaders, managers, supervisors, and employees each have a role in safety. When we align their roles to deliver Safety Margins, then people make better decisions about safety and risk from the frontline all the way up to the C-Suite.

Takeaway

Our clients achieve outstanding safety results because they don’t directly focus their efforts on injury rates, safety compliance, or workers’ comp losses.

Instead, they are adept at implementing systems and processes that achieve strong Safety Margins and reduce risk. This cause and effect is what avoids accidents, injuries, and other losses.