Hi All,

I am planning to conduct an Awareness Campaign at my workplace to promote the importance of reporting near misses and all accidents (including minor ones).  It will only be a short local campaign but I want to measure its effectiveness by conducting a survey of attitudes towards Health and Safety before and after the campaign.

Does anyone have any experience with designing and running surveys like this and have any tips or tricks I should consider?

Thanks in advance.

Peter

Hi Peter

I'm with Knotty on this. The success is if you get a sustained increase in the volume of near miss reports (or whatever you choose to call them) AND better quality reports.

So, as example if you incentivise near miss reporting what you might achieve is to get lots of reports about e.g. obstructions leaving somebody else to decide what to do, when it might be that before your campaign, people just sorted out the problem without raising a near miss report.

What you NEED to know is about all those issues that are beyond the authority of people at the sharp end to sort out.

So, as example, worker A is concerned that the fumes where they work might be a risk to their health. They cannot instruct the installation of extraction or some other mitigation. You need to understand their concerns and provide positive feedback EVEN if the considered opinion is that there is nothing to be done that is reasonably practicable. 

In such circumstances if the organisation decides NOT to do anything but DOESN'T provide clear feedback as to why this is the decision, then any uptick in reporting is likely to disappear VERY quickly!