Getting staff and volunteers to answer the question: “What’s in it for me?” can be a very effective impetus for following risk management policies. In-service training that elicits their ideas on how to make the workplace safer in general and in their areas specifically will engage people in the solutions and make them understand why they are being asked to follow certain policies.
Learn techniques for engaging staff in your efforts to implement sound policies.
Create a training schedule to orient new staff to and refresh memories of seasoned staff about the policies.
Involve staff in evaluating, updating and adding new policies.