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
- Acorn Test – a test to check on a safety mission statement to determine if it is well-defined
Affinity Diagram – organises a large of hazards or near misses into their natural relationships
Benefits and Barriers Exercise – helps individuals see benefits of a proposed change
Round Robin Brainstorming – Use this when dominant members stifle other people’s ideas
Double Reversal Brainstorming – Use this when people are running out of ideas
Starbursting – Identifies issues that must be considered before implementing ideas
Charettes – When a large group must develop ideas about various facets of a problem
Brainwriting – A nonverbal form of brainstorming
Hazard Concentration Diagram – Plots physical locations of hazards and links common traits
Contingency Diagram – Uses brainstorming and fault finding to identify how incidents occur
Continuum of Goals – Shows groups how to devise a general or specific mission statement
Battelle Filtering – Prioritises a list of health and safety options
Design for Safety – a method for carefully planning safety checks on a process
Effective-Achievable Chart – a two dimensional chart for prioritising safety choices
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis – a step by step for identifying failures in a safety process
5W2H – a method for asking questions about a safety process or problem
Safety Importance-Performance Analysis – studies people’s perceptions of safety goals
Is-Is Not Matrix – guides the search for the causes to a safety problem
PMI – structures a discussion to identify the pluses, minuses and interesting points on a idea
Storyboard – a visual display of safety thoughts
Why-Why Diagram – identifies the root causes of a problem
Happy New Year
Best Regards,
Mark Taylor – Director
Safety Matters (NZ) Ltd
Mark Taylor
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