Infographic Golden Rule 7: Invest in people

With this new infographic, we end the series of infographics that describe the 7 golden rules of Vision Zero with which we try to provide companies with tools to be able to carry out a change in the culture of prevention, reaching the level of excellence and fundamentally achieving zero harm for workers.

The seventh golden rule is titled:

INVEST IN PEOPLE

although it is in last place, it should not be implemented in that order. What's more, investing in the people who make up the companies' work team must be a priority objective. When a company carries out this action it generates commitment, "engagement" in its Anglo-Saxon meaning, which has a more powerful meaning than in Spanish.

COMPANY CULTURE: our pillars are trust, respect and collaboration.

But... What are the important points to try to focus on people?:

• Two-way communication: be open to receiving feedback, promote and maintain communication channels always open, listen actively, effective communication.
• Motivation: implement a reward program for good performance and best practices or preventive ideas, take into account the measures that workers propose to implement to address risks, in this way they feel that they are part of the great family that is a company. It is linked to the next point.
• Participation: management must articulate the way that best suits its culture and characteristics in which workers can participate in decisions related to safety.
• Tools: each company will assess which ones best adapt to its idiosyncrasy, for example, it could be a commemoration of prevention week, an open day, celebration of the international health and safety day, communication of accidents in a transparent manner, proposal of measures jointly by management-workers-representatives of the workers.

among others...

What we are looking for is for prevention to go beyond the borders of the workplace, we want to ensure that preventive thinking is always present, a habit in our lives, just like putting on a seat belt every time we get into a vehicle. This is the primary goal of prevention: to protect people from harm. That's nothing... Shall we start?

From Fraternidad-Muprespa we make available to our associated companies all the resources we have so that their workers can train for free, for example, through online courses that can be found in the Aula Prevention. We also have a complete section of our website Previene dedicated to Vision Zero, with tools, news, legislation, manuals, infographics that you can download for free.