Hold Safety Meetings

Making Safety a Workplace Priority Through Regular Meetings

Open communication between employers, supervisors, and workers is critical for any health and safety program to work. You can keep communication channels open by holding regular safety meetings.

Safety meetings can ensure your team is aware of current or potential health and safety issues, while providing an opportunity for everyone to take ownership of maintaining a healthy, safe work environment.

If you have a bigger business, you might have different departments incorporate health and safety into their regularly scheduled meetings. For example:

• Health and safety concerns can be raised and discussed at dedicated departmental safety meetings
• Health and safety can be added as a recurring agenda item to management meetings, where audit results, safety concerns, incidents, and corrective action status can be reviewed
• Management can meet annually to review health and safety matters, monitor progress, and address suggestions or complaints

Whatever kind of business you operate, consider how you can support psychological health and safety in your workplace by including it in your meetings. This may include increasing worker participation and access to resources and supports, encouraging discussion about psychological well-being, integrating psychological health and safety policies into your overall program and reporting on your progress during safety meetings.

For more information:

Creating and Managing a Healthy and Safe Workplace | WorkSafeBC

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