Sustainable Safety Culture
Create a Sustainable Safety Culture
Build a Safer, Stronger, More Efficient Organization
For over six decades, we’ve seen how the strongest organizations create safer workplaces, retain better employees, and achieve lower insurance rates. Building a Sustainable Safety Culture requires leadership commitment, employee engagement, and a shared focus on reducing risk throughout the organization.
Why is it important to build a Sustainable Safety Culture?
The safest companies receive the lowest insurance rates.
Traditional loss control is just a start, not the solution.
An effective safety culture makes employees feel empowered, supported, and valued.
Sustainable improvement requires more than reactive compliance.
There are
4 types of safety cultures
Which one sounds like your business? Hint: Most organizations stop at Compliant.
Reactive
A Reactive safety culture relies on the best judgment and common sense of employees to prevent incidents with little to no support or guidance from management. When push comes to shove, sales or deadlines win out over safety concerns.
Compliant
Compliant safety cultures check the boxes on legal requirements with high-level support from management but minimal follow-through. Mid-level employees are driven to keep themselves and each other accountable out of fear of reprisals, and the whole organization is motivated to primarily avoid penalties or repercussions.
Active
An Active safety culture rewards and recognizes good safety and helps employees feel valued for demonstrating and reinforcing safe habits. Management is committed to providing appropriate training and equipment, regularly tracking and reviewing operations, and ensuring immediate reporting and response.
Sustainable
We believe in helping you build a Sustainable Safety Culture not just to lower costs but because it’s the right thing to do. It makes employees feel valued and empowered to identify risks and make safe decisions for themselves and each other. It actively engages management in setting a positive example. It creates policies, practices, and procedures that are designed to adapt to the safety needs of the workplace.
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Testimonials
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4 Steps to a Sustainable Safety Culture
Step 1: Measure
Take our survey to learn what kind of safety culture you currently have.
Step 2: Analyze
Review the survey report to learn how people responded at every level of your organization, better understand your current safety culture, and identify improvements you need to make. Keep in mind that different parts of your business may exhibit different safety cultures.
Step 3: Plan
Work with your team to create an action plan focused on the areas that will do the most to help you become more attractive to insurance companies. If you’re a LeBaron & Carroll client, we’ll provide you with an annual action plan outlining specific steps you can take to develop a Sustainable Safety Culture.
Step 4: Execute
Get to work implementing your plan and constantly evaluate how you’re doing. If you need help, our safety team can work with you to accomplish your action plan and provide guidance and insights.
the benefits
Go Beyond Insurance
When you build a Sustainable Safety Culture, you create a stronger organization that is better positioned for long-term success. The result is not only improved insurance outcomes (lower rates), but also a safer, more engaged, and more productive workforce. Employee retention increases, which reduces costs associated with hiring and training new employees.
Lower Insurance Costs
Fewer and less severe claims create measurable benefits throughout your organization. Over time, strong safety performance can improve your risk profile, lower your experience modification factor (eMod), reduce workers’ compensation costs, and create greater long-term stability.
Empowered Employees
With a Sustainable safety culture, your employees will feel empowered to do what it takes to watch out for each other and remain safe on the job. They’ll feel valued and more dedicated to their work and your business, and you’ll be more likely to retain your most skilled workers.
Efficient and Safe Operations
Fewer disruptions, lower turnover, and faster recovery from incidents help your business operate more efficiently while creating a safer environment for everyone involved. The safest companies are often rewarded with more job opportunities.
Earn the lowest
Rates and Best Coverage
When you build a Sustainable Safety Culture you’ll earn credits from insurance carriers eager to do everything they can to earn your business. Plus, you’ll get benefits that go beyond your bottom line.
Lower Insurance Costs
The math is pretty simple. Reduce your number of insurance claims, and the severity of each of those claims, and you’ll spend less time and money managing and paying for them. You’ll also earn a lower risk profile that could qualify you for significant discounts on your insurance.
Empowered Employees
With a Sustainable Safety Culture, your employees will feel empowered to do what it takes to watch out for each other and remain safe on the job. They’ll feel valued and more dedicated to their work and your business, and you’ll be more likely to retain your most skilled workers.
Efficient and Safe Operations
Less frequent and severe claims mean your operations continue to run efficiently and effectively. Employees can return to work faster, you’ll experience less turnover, and you can rest easy knowing you’re doing what’s needed to keep everybody safe.
We help businesses reduce risk, strengthen operations, and make more informed insurance decisions through proactive guidance and long-term partnership.
Explore our video series to see how we can help you lower your overall cost of risk and streamline your insurance program.