National Safety Council

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National Safety Council
Role of Safety Professionals in Promoting a
Healthier and Safer Workforce March 2009
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National Safety Council

• Mission
• The National Safety Council saves lives by
  preventing injuries at work, on the roads, in
  homes and in communities through leadership,
  research, education and advocacy.
• Goal
• Save 10,000 lives and prevent 1 million injuries
  by 2014.

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National Safety Council

• Non-profit organization
• More than 18,000 member companies
• More than 54,000 member locations
• That employ more than 8 million
• 39 chapters located throughout U.S.

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On-The-Job Compared to Off-The-Job

• On-The-Job
• 147 million workers at risk
• 4,689 on-the-job deaths
• 3.5 million disabling injuries
• 175 billion in costs to society

• Off-The-Job (OTJ)
• 147 million workers at risk
• 52,500 worker OTJ deaths
• 9.4 million worker OTJ disabling injuries
• 246 billion in OTJ costs to society

Source Injury Facts, 2009 Ed.
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Off-The-Job Safety Health Initiative

• Project team
• Project scope and objectives
• Year one activities
• Adult immunization project
• Emergency Alert Network
• Formative evaluation

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Off-The-Job Safety Health Survey

• 672 respondents
• NSC member companies with email
• 5.7 response rate
• Data collected August 2008

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Off-The-Job Safety Health Survey

• Number that offer off-the-job safety education
  and health promotion activities to their workers
  and families
• Interest in off-the-job safety and health product
• Preferences on topics, product features, program
  delivery methods
• Factors impacting decisions to offer OTJ safety
  and health programs

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Survey Participants
Large (500) n140 (21)
Small (1-99) n388 (58)
Medium (100-499) n143 (21)
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Programs by Company Size
Percent
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Survey Findings

• Most important factors for all sized
  organizations leadership support, funding
• Highest ranked topics fire safety, falls,
  physical activity, driving safety and nutrition
• Website with downloadable resources
• Scientific evidence

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Small Companies (1-99 employees)

• Employee time ranked second in importance in
  decision to offer program
• Funding ranked fifth
• Scientific evidence followed by activity
  instructions, assessment tools

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Medium Companies (100-499 employees)

• Leadership support, employee interest in topic,
  funding, participation, program availability
• Fire, falls, driving, cardiovascular disease,
  physical activity
• Activity instructions, cost calculators,
  assessment tools, evidence, decision support
  tools

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Large Companies(500 or more employees)

• Funding followed leadership support
• Fire safety, physical activity, cardiovascular
  disease, nutrition
• Decision support tools, evidence, activity
  instructions, assessment tools, cost calculators

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Off-The-Job Safety Health Focus Groups

• Two groups, February 2009
• Professional focus group facilities
• Suburban Chicago, IL
• Suburban Philadelphia, PA

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Focus Group Objectives

• Explore definition of OTJ safety
• Understand how OTJ safety and health promotion
  are integrated into their day-to-day
  responsibilities
• Goals and objectives, barriers, management and
  employee reaction
• Use of technology, including new media
• Tools and resources desired from NSC

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Group Composition

• 10 per group, 8 women/12 men
• Responsible for safety and health education and
  programming within organization
• Varied levels of experience, job levels and
  tenure within organization
• Mix of industries and company size in each group

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Key Observations

• Leadership support
• Organization culture
• Self-taught, self-motivated
• Need meaningful programs
• Diverse workforce and health literacy
• Lack of assessment tools
• New and social media

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• I try not to focus as much on the cost of
  injuries and such. I mean its skyrocketing
  absolutely, but I never, ever want the employees
  to think that number is more important than they
  are.

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• I can tell when the employees have gotten
  itIm trying to get them to a want to
  mentality whether its with safety or whether
  its with health.

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• I think it depends on the audience. I mean for
  our hourly folks, I mean we have a lot of people
  that have trouble reading, a lot that English is
  the second languagedont have a whole lot of
  technology or at least the kind of internet
  connections that you need to download thick video
  streams.

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• I like programs where theres something that
  happens at a certain date and then you have X
  amount of time toreach a goal. I think that
  would be a great way to measure off-the-job
  safety and wellness.

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• Maybe examples of folks who have implemented
  the programs and the kinds of cost savings they
  realized. They started a wellness to stop
  smoking, blood pressure, and heres what happened
  to their health insurance premium.

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NSCs Next Steps

• Resources and Tools
• Develop electronic product with downloadable
  resources, activity guides, evaluation tools, etc
• Address health and safety across lifespan of
  workers families
• Pilot and evaluate effectiveness of new media
  in worksite settings to employees and their
  families

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NSCs Next Steps

• Capacity Building
• Develop and disseminate decision support tools to
  make the business case
• Develop self-guided instructional modules to
  build skills of safety professionals
• Integrate OTJ safety and health promotion into
  NSC training curriculum

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NSC Emergency Alert Network

• Task Develop a push communications system to
  can deliver an emergency message to all NSC
  members within two hours
• Member Needs
• Multiple communication types
• Update contact information
• Multiple organization contacts
• Notify by geographic region

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NSC Emergency Alert Network

• Complete system test (September 17, 2008)
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• 17,993 unique recipients
• Total contact points 34,805
• Calls 19,551
• Emails/text 15,254

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NSC Emergency Alert Network

• Results
• 96 of emergency contacts received a message
  within two hour timeframe
• Future intended member use of system

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Hurricane Ike

• Consulted with insurance industry representatives
  
• Activated the network
• Conducted industry search
• 431 member contacts
• Cleared CDC message

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Hurricane Ike

• 82 of messages successfully delivered
• Insurance industry members responses
• Provided information to claims agents
• Called 1-800-CDC-INFO
• Indicated they had no operations in the hurricane
  affected region.

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Save 10,000 lives and prevent 1 million injuries
by 2014
Questions?