Safety Celebrations and Events: How Useful in Building Culture?

Abstract

Do safety celebrations really help the companies, contractors or employees while the world focuses on vision zero, zero harm, zero tolerance, and so many new ways and means to exercise ones right to live a safe work life. What parameters we need to have for discerning whether safety celebrations are helpful, in which ways? There are a variety of occasional and periodical celebrations like safety week, national safety day, fire week, national burn awareness week, employees reward events, and so on. But the critical questions are whether do these events strengthen safety culture of the company? What are the cost and man-days that go into these weekly, monthly and annual activities? Professionals insights and literature critically analyse and reveal whether corporate safety celebrations really make sense to strengthen safety culture for achieving zero-harm at sites for employees and associates. HSE Professionals, though about 20% denied the positive impact of safety celebrations, nearly 80% revealed positive confirmations with a purpose. Daily small and regular HSE events are as relevant as big celebrations to achieve missions vision zero, zero harm, zero tolerance and lessen costs on medical, insurance, property losses, and save human lives. But most corporates focus on periodical safety events rather concentrating on daily safety culture. Basic safety systems must work for celebrations to go on.