21 Safety Engagement Tools & Techniques

Thanks to Mark Taylor from www.safetymatters.co.nz for sending these in. I haven’t heard of a few of these but others I have found useful. We still need to realise that no tool is perfect or free of subjectivity and bias see:  When the Safety Tool Becomes the Method.

Have you used any of these or are there others you could recommend – tell us your tips, successes and pitfalls.

21 Safety Engagement Tools & Techniques

1. Acorn Test – a test to check on a safety mission statement to determine if it is well-defined

2. Affinity Diagram – organises a large of hazards or near misses into their natural relationships

3. Benefits and Barriers Exercise – helps individuals see benefits of a proposed change

4. Round Robin Brainstorming – Use this when dominant members stifle other people’s ideas

5. Double Reversal Brainstorming – Use this when people are running out of ideas

6. Starbursting – Identifies issues that must be considered before implementing ideas

7. Charettes – When a large group must develop ideas about various facets of a problem

8. Brainwriting – A nonverbal form of brainstorming

9. Hazard Concentration Diagram – Plots physical locations of hazards and links common traits

10. Contingency Diagram – Uses brainstorming and fault finding to identify how incidents occur

11. Continuum of Goals – Shows groups how to devise a general or specific mission statement

12. Battelle Filtering – Prioritises a list of health and safety options

13. Design for Safety – a method for carefully planning safety checks on a process

14. Effective-Achievable Chart – a two dimensional chart for prioritising safety choices

15. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis – a step by step for identifying failures in a safety process

16. 5W2H – a method for asking questions about a safety process or problem

17. Safety Importance-Performance Analysis – studies people’s perceptions of safety goals

18. Is-Is Not Matrix – guides the search for the causes to a safety problem

19. PMI – structures a discussion to identify the pluses, minuses and interesting points on a idea

20. Storyboard – a visual display of safety thoughts

21. Why-Why Diagram – identifies the root causes of a problem

Happy New Year

Best Regards,

Mark Taylor – Director

Safety Matters (NZ) Ltd

www.safetymatters.co.nz