In a large mining operation in the Southwest, research showed that Peer Mentoring resulted in 75 percent fewer recordable safety incidents than classroom or other safety training methods. Be provoked! Learn something new! Check out Todd Hudson’s knowledge transfer blog.

Teach Employees to Work Safely in High-Danger Environments

You budget thousands of hours of classroom time teaching employees how to work safely. And they still violate basic procedures and get hurt. Or you've got a great safety record and are wondering “How do we get to ‘zero’ incidents?”

Out there on the job, your employees face a hundred safety decisions every day. Experienced employees have the knowledge and judgment to choose wisely, often without consciously knowing they’re doing so. Newbies may or may not have learned the “rules” in training, but out on the job, they don’t always know when or how to apply them. The result can be safety incidents or a level of fear that causes valuable newbies to quit.

Classroom training is a start, but studies show that the real learning happens from experienced co-workers who are right there when newbies encounter those split-second safety decisions.

At the Maverick Institute, we can show you proven methods such as Peer Mentoring*, that will help you dramatically improve safety, get newbies up to speed more quickly, and improve new-employee retention.

Peer Mentoring turns your experienced employees into on-the-job safety trainers, giving them powerful skills to mentor their newbie co-workers. Peer Mentoring helps seasoned workers:

• Understand why mentoring for safety is critical.
• Be enthusiastic about mentoring.
• Learn specific tools and skills to mentor correctly and consistently.
• Overcome the difficulties of mentoring co-workers who have different learning styles.
• Know how to assess what co-workers already know about safety.
• Know when the co-workers they are mentoring aren’t ‘getting it’ and what to do to make sure they do.
• Know how to help co-workers past the ‘danger zone’ when newbies get over-confident and make errors in judgment.
• Learn how to be effective mentors and still get their own jobs done.

Peer Mentoring for Safety is available as a general public workshop. We also can work with you to custom-fit Peer Mentoring to your company and goals, and then deliver the training as an on-site workshop at your company.

If, like many companies, you want to measure the return on your Peer Mentoring investment, we also can help you create benchmarks for reporting.

Download a pdf of our Knowledge Transfer for Safety brochure .

Whether you're ready to ride or not sure if these new approaches will work for you, we'd like to hear what's on your mind. Email us or call Todd Hudson at 303.819.6662.

*The Peer Mentoring methodology is the property of Solution Strategies, Inc. The Maverick Institute is a certified and licensed Peer Mentoring partner.