A safety partnership is defined as:
Leadership, managers, and front-line associates jointly focus on safety and proactively work together in a business entity to minimize the possibility of harm and maximize safety performance. (Cooper, 2016)
Creating a genuine safety partnership means management and the workforce jointly working towards achieving common and understood safety goals, with clear and consistent communication, efficient monitoring, reporting, and decisive action to investigate blockages and take the appropriate corrective action as needed.
The key drivers for developing and maintaining a safety partnership are straightforward and involve:
