January 7, the second Wednesday of 2026. Holidays are off. Work is on. We hope you have a great, safe holiday. 2025 brought significant changes and challenges. Safety and the environment are affected by new technologies and developments that have become essential to the work. Are safety and environmental issues being addressed? Are their systems handled? Or do you need help setting it up or maintaining it? The EHS documentor can help you.
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SAFETY CULTURE
What builds the safety culture? Words or Discipline?
It’s Wednesday-the middle of the week. You walk through your office, checking your schedule and emails. A trainee knocks on the door. You let him in. After a casual discussion about life and work, he asks you: “What is the safety culture of the company?”
You answer with another question: “Hmm, didn’t you read it?”
He responds: “I did, but I mean the real application of it; how did you measure its implications? How did you know that your employees understand it and implement it in their day-to-day work?”
And you get what he means: Did your printed words turn into a real culture?
You look at him and like his attitude and boldness, and think it’s a great time for an audit and feedback gathering. So you give him his first assignment. It’s a great way for this safety seeker to live and learn the real side of safety culture.
The best practices to measure the effectiveness of your company.
A robust safety culture can’t be built without a robust safety management system. That system gives you the tools to measure, track, and enhance every aspect of safety in your company. Here are the top 3 ways:
Safety audits: There are two kinds of audit: internal and external. Companies are encouraged to conduct at least one external audit per year by a third-party auditor, especially if the safety management system is certified. It’s also recommended to conduct an internal audit twice a year, led by an in-house auditor trained in audit frameworks.
Surveys and questionnaires: Regular surveys, conducted once a month or quarterly, depending on the size of your company, can pinpoint the gaps between what’s practiced and what’s expected from your written safety culture, improving matters of communication and implementation.
Safety scorecards: Data is the fuel of any decision and improvement. Knowing what to measure is key to successful data tracking. This forces you to invest time in observing your employees’ safety-related behaviors. Then, measuring safety culture engagement becomes your game.
A combination of these three ways is an effective way to build a team where safety is a culture.
The trainee will take the initiative and start an internal audit guided by his manager by tomorrow.
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