How to deliver better hygiene and health & safety communications

Translate job risk assessments, induction training and working procedures

Effective communication is a vital element in the development of a positive safety culture. As Managing for health and safety (HSG65) notes, “to achieve success in health and safety management, there needs to be effective communication up, down and across the organization”. However, communication is an often-neglected element of the management process, despite legal obligations and good practice to communicate.

Decisions on communication, including the “what, who and how”, should be part of an overall health and safety strategy, ensuring that the communication processes are delivering the required information to their audience in an effective manner that achieves the desired effect. We recommend providing employees with the information they can read in the language they understand to ensure legal compliance and good practice requirements are met.

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The Government Communication Service defines communication as “building relationships with others, listening and understanding them, and conveying thoughts and messages clearly and congruently; expressing things coherently and simply, in ways that others can understand, and showing genuine knowledge, interest and concern; bringing these aspects together to make change happen”.

The fundamental goal of health and safety communication is to provide meaningful, relevant, and accurate information, in clear and understandable terms, to specific stakeholders.

Our online cross-cultural webinar will help you promote awareness and understanding of the management of health and safety as well as specific risk issues including cultural differences and different attitudes and perceptions towards health and safety compliance in different countries.