{"id":41,"date":"2021-03-15T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/chapter\/describe-the-causes-and-results-of-accidents\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T18:15:21","slug":"describe-the-causes-and-results-of-accidents","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/chapter\/describe-the-causes-and-results-of-accidents\/","title":{"raw":"Safety culture","rendered":"Safety culture"},"content":{"raw":"Your health and well-being are your most valuable possessions. Many laws and regulations have been passed in order to ensure employee safety, yet every year thousands of serious injuries occur\u2014often with serious long-term consequences for both employees and employers.\r\n\r\nSafety is a learned behaviour and attitude; it is a way of working that must be incorporated into the company as a culture. Everybody in a company, from management to labourers, must be responsible for safety every day they come to work.\r\n\r\nCompanies with strong safety cultures usually have:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>fewer at-risk behaviours<\/li>\r\n \t<li>lower accident rates<\/li>\r\n \t<li>less employee turnover<\/li>\r\n \t<li>lower absenteeism<\/li>\r\n \t<li>higher productivity<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nMost work-site safety rules are a matter of common sense, but people tend to forget or ignore them to save time or energy.\r\n\r\nThe ultimate responsibility for on-the-job safety, however, rests with you. By following the practices in this Competency, you and your co-workers will commit yourselves to safety on the job and everyone will benefit.","rendered":"<p>Your health and well-being are your most valuable possessions. Many laws and regulations have been passed in order to ensure employee safety, yet every year thousands of serious injuries occur\u2014often with serious long-term consequences for both employees and employers.<\/p>\n<p>Safety is a learned behaviour and attitude; it is a way of working that must be incorporated into the company as a culture. Everybody in a company, from management to labourers, must be responsible for safety every day they come to work.<\/p>\n<p>Companies with strong safety cultures usually have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fewer at-risk behaviours<\/li>\n<li>lower accident rates<\/li>\n<li>less employee turnover<\/li>\n<li>lower absenteeism<\/li>\n<li>higher productivity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most work-site safety rules are a matter of common sense, but people tend to forget or ignore them to save time or energy.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate responsibility for on-the-job safety, however, rests with you. By following the practices in this Competency, you and your co-workers will commit yourselves to safety on the job and everyone will benefit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":801,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[61],"license":[],"class_list":["post-41","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","contributor-stacy"],"part":38,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/801"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/41\/revisions\/1673"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/38"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/41\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/tradesaccesscommoncorelinea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}