Program for Reducing Workplace Injuries, Illnesses
The MCIT-created Work Wisely program helps members foster a positive culture of safety. When all people of an organization embrace and value safety, the frequency and severity of workplace injuries and illnesses decrease.
The Work Wisely program helps members build and support a positive safety culture:
- Encourage each employee to become a safety advocate.
- Boost the safety mindset of employees.
- Improve safety behaviors.
Work Wisely is a growing initiative that encourages general safety behaviors that apply to all types of work and highlights specific hazards and their solutions.
Tools to Build a Culture of Safety
A thriving positive safety culture can:
- Reduce employee work-related injuries and illness
- Improve productivity
- Raise employee morale
- Lower operational costs
- Boost organization’s reputation
- Reduce employee absenteeism
Positive Safety Culture Guide
“Safety Culture: Techniques for Building Positive Organizational Change” is a guide for how to construct and improve a positive safety culture.
The handbook includes pre-assessment questionnaire, references to additional resources and practical tools any safety committee or supervisor can use to keep safety at front of mind.
Safety Committee Handbook
The Safety Committee Resource Handbook is a companion guide to the Safety Culture guide. It provides specific information about requirements for safety committees and offers tips on how they can promote and improve safety practices in their workplace.
Build Awareness of General Safety Behaviors
Help build a positive safety culture and reduce work-related injuries and illness by using the Get Wise to Safety Villains awareness campaign materials. Safety villains highlighted include complacency, haste, keeping quiet and indifference.
Campaign materials include:
- Posters
- Digital images
- Table tents
- Video
- Quick Takes on Safety
- Multi-use label
Filter items by the Work Wisely topic to see all items.
Step Wisely: Slip, Trip and Fall Prevention Program
Preventing slip, trip and fall accidents could save your organization significant costs, time and grief related to liability and workers’ compensation injuries.
The Step Wisely program provides:
- Eye-catching materials about smart safety habits to reach employees and the public
- Campaigns for winter slip and fall hazards and year round exposures
Tips for Maximum Benefit of Step Wisely Program
Help prevent and lessen workplace slip, trip and fall incidents by using the Step Wisely program to its maximum benefit. This flier explains the program’s various components and how employers can get the most from them.
Comprehensive Incident Prevention Program
Step Wisely is a comprehensive program that includes a number of materials to help limit the number and severity of slip, trip and fall incidents in the workplace. Browse Resources for all items:
- Awareness campaigns including posters, digital images, table tents, videos and engagement activities
- Slip and fall prevention handbook
- Webinar recording on how to get the most from the program
- Quick Takes on Safety training scripts and handouts
- Power Point presentation that can be edited to fit a member’s needs
- Hazard identification checklist
- Articles regarding slip and fall concerns
Filter results by the Step Wisely topic to see all campaign materials.
Drive Wisely: Encourage Safer Driving Habits
A large portion of member employees drive while on the job. Although an everyday task, it poses a significant safety risk. MCIT offers a variety of tools for members to educate and encourage staff about safer driving behaviors, in particular:
- Defensive driving techniques
- Deer-vehicle collisions
- General roadway safety
Filter Resources by keyword, topic (e.g., driving, deer-vehicle collision) or type to find the driving awareness materials you need.
Tap Into Minnesota Safety Council Driving Resources
MCIT members receive a membership with the Minnesota Safety Council as a part of MCIT membership. The Safety Council offers a number of resources and courses, including mature driver classes and “Alive at 25,” to help reinforce safe driving habits among employees. Many of the resources are free, but some are offered at a modest cost.
