Activator
These are the signs and triggers that help us have the safe behaviours we need to have to make safety more likely. Reminders, emails, reports, telephone calls, group meetings and websites all serve as activators to our safety. Do it today, improve one of the activators you are using to help people remember safety.

Behaviour
Safety is very much about what we do with the tools, equipment, materials and work environment. Through our actions and inactions we create a culture of safety or one that lacks safety. Choice is important. We choose every moment of everyday what we are going to do next. Choose to do something that reduces your exposure to harmful energy. No one else can do it for you.

Control
Putting our safety management systems in control is essential to our success. We need to manage the factors that create safety through systems and measurements to make safety more likely. It’s been said that you can’t control safety, but you can put systems and activities in place to put your safety management activities “in control”.

Deviance
Deviating from a known standard creates predictable disasters. We know how to create safe behaviours and environments. These things are not mysterious unattainable mythical beasts. They are logical and practical actions we can take. Do things that you think will improve your safety.
 
Energy
We know we’ve been hurt when we’ve been exposed to harmful energy. Energy that exceeds our body’s limits creates injuries and illness. These energies are rarely surprises to us. We can either eliminate those energies or create barriers for them so their effect on us will be minimized.

Free
It’s often been said that “safety is free”. This is not to say that investment isn’t needed. Of course many of the things we need to do will require us to spend some of our valuable resources (time and money). If we’ve been practical about what we do about safety, we will get a return on our investment that is a multiple of our expenditures.

Companies achieving excellence in safety are NOT going broke. There isn’t one successful company that doesn’t know that their management of unintentional losses is a good investment – not one! So this is 100 per cent predictable. If you do the right things to increase safe production, you will get the results you hope for. Logically, what works in safety management is simply WHAT WORKS! Do things to create safety then adjust as your own evidence reveals what is accomplishing the outcomes you want.

Groups
Groups of employees creating safe production are powerful. Giving folks you work with the challenge to create safe production will empower them to do what they need to do to work safely. Challenge them to create a safe place to work.