The primary reasons building employee engagement matters for a safety culture is that engaged employees are (1) five times less likely to get hurt on the job, (2) seven times less likely to have a lost-time injury than all other categories of employees, and (3) end up costing the organization one-sixth of that of other employees in terms of workers comp, insurance premiums, fines, lawsuits and stockholder confidence.
Eric Svendsen, Ph.D., is Principal and lead change agent for safetyBUILT-IN, a safety-leadership learning and development organization. He has over 20 years experience in creating and executing outcomes-based leadership development and culture change initiatives aligned to organizational goals, and he personally led the safety-culture initiatives of a number of client organizations that resulted in “best ever safety performance” years for those companies.
The primary reasons building employee engagement matters for a safety culture is that engaged employees are (1) five times less likely to get hurt on the job, (2) seven times less likely to have a lost-time injury than all other categories of employees, and (3) end up costing the organization one-sixth of that of other employees in terms of workers comp, insurance premiums, fines, lawsuits and stockholder confidence. 