or how you can motivate colleagues to work health and safety.

Our daily routine is a safety trap. Every second accident at work happens because the victim has underestimated the potential dangers of their job.

Most employees work at workplaces with a moderate risk of accidents - but surprisingly, this is precisely what makes unsafe behavior possible in the first place, especially when there is also time pressure.

Many accidents are still caused by tripping, slipping or falling when simply walking from A to B. While walking across the yard, you might quickly send a text message and overlook a new or old stumbling block - unfortunately, this often results in serious broken bones!

These facts provide us with a very important starting point for exerting a positive influence on employee behavior as a manager. The aim should be to make safe behavior more desirable for employees than unsafe behavior - in other words, to "motivate" individual employees to make their own risk assessment.

We provide you with a tool for this with our instructions. However, if you really want to promote safe behavior among your colleagues, please always pass on our safety instructions and then talk to your employees about their own experiences on the respective topic, e.g. about the causes of accidents in your own company.

What can you do, for example, to promote the use of PPE in your company?

The wear rate depends particularly on comfort, but appearance also plays a major role for many employees. So don't always buy boring standard products for cost reasons. Your employees will thank you for it - and you will be encouraging their safety-conscious behavior!

As a line manager, you are also obliged to monitor compliance with safety regulations - and of course to enforce them. Disciplinary measures, such as a warning, can also be used as a last resort, but it should never really come to that.

Your personal behavior in terms of safety - as well as your company's own corporate culture - plays a role that should not be underestimated. Be a supervisor who is aware of his responsibility for accident prevention and reward safety-conscious behavior, for example, by openly praising individual employees for it.

Our instructions are designed to help you make safety in your company more attractive! However, please also take the time to discuss the content with your employees.

Safety initially costs time - but healthy employees are absent much less than sick ones - and you not only save money in the long term, you also gain more time for new activities!