Posted By Gareth W Jones I dont normaly post threads, but normaly view on a weekly basis, almost an year ago we had a serious accident, were an employee removed a fixed guard and placed his hand inside a tool, this employee lost parts of two of his fingers, as a company we looked at all the work we had carried out (Risk assessments, training, signs, etc etc) the conclusion if somebody wants to break all procedures and by pass all the safety nets, they will just go ahead and do it!! But why??? This started me on a journey to look at safety behaviour, lots of companys out there believe they are incident free, untill the silly accident occurs.... after 6 months of giving training on safety behaviuor and with some brilliant results we are now issuing out our own "Home safety pack" glasses, ear defenders, Mask, gloves etc, minimum cost but very beneficial, in short we feel positive that our safety culture has changed and that it has been well worth spending our time and effort in this area!!

Posted By Gareth W Jones Hi Ray, Thanks for your response the home safety packs are just general ppe with simple tips on were they can be used around the home and garden, my advise is that if an employee uses the ppe and saves themselves having an injury at home they are then able to come to work, I dont believe this is taking safety too far, as a collegue with almost three years of delivering safety behavioural training told me he allowed employees to take Gloves home to be used in the garden, this was the starting point of the change in his culture, I know that by taking this a step further over the last 6 months we have had some great results and changes here.

Posted By Glyn Atkinson If applied properly, the method of allowing people to take home PPE for home use would keep more of the workforce at work rather than injuring themselves at home at weekends on diy projects. It's both a moral and logistic issue - in our case, our guys are all woodworking manufacturing people so can do outside (barrow / guvvy) jobs at weekends easily. If they use PPE, we will most likely have them back at work on the Monday, so we gain on staffing levels! - the benefit is more staff at work during the normal working week. - the cost is the borrowed PPE. Open question - do our illustrious members always take and wear their company's PPE if doing home jobs? Does the firm know you've got it? Or don't you use PPE at all? My prescription safety glasses are worn as much at home as work ! There again, I work for the real gaffer at weekends !!

Posted By Ali Well done ! If you wanted a "role model", you could try to get some background info about the company "de Puy International". They claim to be more or less "accident free" and this is based around the safety culture within the organisation. I have been to one of their seminars and was quite impressed. Ali

Posted By Ali Thank you for reminding me - I made a Freudian slip ! The company is NOT de Puy, but du Pont !! Incidentally, I did visit a du Pont seminar and was impressed ! I don't know if they have a website, but I imagine they do. Sorry, for misleading my colleagues. Ali