A safety cartoon could supply the answer…
Whichever sector your business is in, it’s more than likely that health and safety plays an important role in your day-to-day functions. Whether that’s employing full-time advisers, creating and updating manuals or designing training programmes, these procedures are necessary for the wellbeing of both you and your employees.
As well as helping make your workplace a safer environment for staff, investing in your health and safety practices also makes good business sense. Improvements can help reduce your accident losses. They can also improve your business profile with your customers and drive overall company efficiency.
Which methods work the best? Viewing a safety cartoon?
If you want to develop a positive health and safety culture in your organisation, a good place to start is by creating a comprehensive training programme. This may sound like a large undertaking, but having a solid foundation to build upon is incredibly important.
Having a committed health and safety policy that aids your training programme can also help with your efforts. This doesn’t need to be too complicated or time consuming. A document that lets employees and other stakeholders know about your commitment will work. In your policy it should clearly state who does what, when and how they do it.
Following on from this, you could also hire a dedicated health and safety officer to oversee the design and upkeep of the policy and training guide. As your business grows, trying to keep on top of all procedures and implement any new guidelines can be frustrating without the proper support.
While these are all helpful suggestions, they can be quite time consuming. Thankfully, there’s one health and safety tool that can quickly convey your message, that’s also easy for your staff to digest. The health and safety cartoon.
Why choose a health and safety cartoon?
Put yourself in your employees’ shoes. They will be constantly bombarded with information each and every day. After a tiring shift, or in the middle of a particularly long week, most of this will probably go over their heads. A great way to smash through all this information clutter is with a cartoon.
The reason why cartoons have been used throughout history is that they have an irresistible appeal. People just have to read them and know what’s going on. They get curious. If you have some dotted around your workplace, in the few seconds it takes for staff to satisfy their curiosity, your vital health and safety message has been delivered.
A good safety cartoon should include some humour, so your staff can get the point whilst also making it easy for them to remember the message. It really makes it easier to internalise training if serious information can be made light hearted and fun, and cartoons are excellent at doing this.
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, you can find details on some of my cartoon designs here. I also offer a bespoke service, so if you have something else in mind or would like custom work done please contact me here and we can discuss.