Posted By Paul Foulkes Anyone want to make any suggestions? I know we have the legal, moral and economic arguments, How have you made it more interesting? OK - I'll come clean - I want line managers and employees to be more positive, more interested, join in, enjoy. In the spirit of best practice I'm always happy to plagiarise someone elses work if you're prepared to share it. So feel free to expound your theories or your experiences here. I do have ideas of my own, and could always use HSG65 but 'exiting'? How do we make safety exiting?

Posted By Alan Hoskins You can make it interesting Paul, but I'm not sure about exciting! Examples and cases that people can relate to are vital - but I'm sure you already knew that. Alan

Posted By Andrew Böber One word: blackmail. AJRB

Posted By IT Like Peter , I have used intergrated training and added role reversal always interesting to watch the behaviour change when the manager is the employee and the employee the manager,it allows you to build a subjective view on how safety is managed. IT

Posted By Sally Agree with Andrew - blackmail. Or more precisely set up positive associations in people minds. One organisation I worked for holds an annual safety 'lecture' for all staff. This involves a fast paced one hour presentation covering emergency procedures, manual handling techniques, lone working, basic lab procedures - things that apply to all staff. This is then followed by a quiz on what they've heard with boxes of chocolates as prizes. Then a pizza lunch. Result is when you mention safety that's what people thing off. With regard to specific training sessions one of the most successful I've done is a session on Incident Investigation with all staff in which I got people to play the role of the injured person, manager, supervisor etc. In groups staff 'investigated' an incident and reached conclusion and agreed remedial actions. This got people to think about and talk about all sorts of things such as need for safe systems, how job pressure affected peoples actions, contribution of equipment problems etc It also provided opening for the idea of management of H&S and what actions by whom could have prevent the 'incident'. I set up the accident scene and had the role players in various offices around the site so it was a very active session and was far removed from the 'chalk and talk' Health & safety training sessions people are used to. Once you have these postive associations in peoples minds they become much more receptive to the day to day basic building blocks of safety.

Posted By Raymond Rapp Paul It has been mentioned already but reverse role play with real life situations and examples was probably as good as it gets. I have done it with Managers, TU personnel and both but the latter was the best. But make sure there are a varied assortemnt of issues from harrassment to industrial injury claims and a group of people of all different grades, including senior managers. Afterwards, when comparing the outcome from different groupsit can be quite hilarious. The key was to ensure the person delivering the event was completley impartial, in fact, we had an external facilitator who was excellent. Tell the truth, I would love to be the external facilitator! Regards Ray