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Your Safety Attitude

• A good attitude toward safety is a key to


preventing unnecessary incidents and injuries.
Your attitude affects your safety and the safety
of everyone around you, whether you are at
work or at home.
What Is Good Safety
Attitude?
• Focus:
A good attitude
means you
avoid
distractions
and try to
remain focused
on the task at
hand.
What Is Good Safety
Attitude?
• Time:
A good attitude means
taking the time to do
the job right because
you know that
saving a few minutes
by using a shortcut
is not worth the risk
of a painful injury.
What Is Good Safety
Attitude?
• Discipline:
A good attitude means
you are discipline to
always do what’s right,
even if others
encourage you to take
shortcuts or fool
around.
What Is Good Safety Attitude?
• Responsibility:
A good attitude means
you will take
responsibility, even
when a certain task
“isn’t my job.” For
example, wouldn’t you
appreciate it if
someone else cleaned
up a spill on the floor
before you found it the
hard way?
What Is Good Safety Attitude?

• Risk:
There is no way to
avoid all risk. Just by
getting in a car, you’re
taking some risk. A
good attitude means
avoiding taking risks
whenever you can.
Less sick days and better
productivity

This is a side benefit of stress


reduction.  Stress can have
a serious negative impact on
your health.  If you can
reduce your stress, or the
stress of everyone in your
organization you'll enjoy
better health, less sick days,
and better productivity
Improve customer relations
and improve sales
Customers would rather
deal with someone
positive. Research has
also shown that sales
professionals who think
positively and believe in
the benefits of their
product have much
better sales
performance.
Become a better leader
If you own a company or if you
manage people, those who
report to you usually get more
from watching you than they do
listening to what you’re saying.
Be a good example of having a
positive attitude in the
workplace. Set goals and ask for
people’s support in achieving
them. Take a positive attitude
approach to achieving those
goals and to overcoming
challenges. Your attitude and
enthusiasm will spread
throughout your workplace. A
positive attitude is just as
infectious as a negative one. Be
Improve teamwork

Teams are much more


effective when the
members are united in
overcoming challenges
and figuring out how they
can achieve their
objectives rather than
dwelling on all the
problems and obstacles
that stand in their way
Improve motivation for
yourself and others
If you have a positive attitude
about achieving goals and
success in general, you will
be much more motivated to
take action. If you look at
what you would like to
accomplish and you see only
the obstacles, your motivation
diminishes pretty quickly. Ask
yourself what might spur you
to action.
• We can think of excuses for not always
acting with safety in mind, but in the end, it
make a lot more SENCE to have a good
safety attitude.
Improve Interpersonal
Relations
People like positive people. They’re
automatically drawn to a pleasant and
upbeat demeanor. Your business and
personal relationships will definitely
improve when you employ a positive
attitude. There are also techniques
you can use to help improve other
people's reaction and attitude toward
you
Improve decision-making and
overcome challenges
See challenges as
opportunities to grow and
become better. When
you’re making a business
decision, you can use this
same approach and your
options will really open up.

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