Before I tell you the topic of today's toolbox talk, I want to ask you a question: is it possible to play a sport or fully succeed in life without the cooperation of other people? Logically, no one person can encompass everything, so we all need the cooperation of others. This is commonly known as Teamwork at work, and this is what today's toolbox talk is going to revolve around “Teamwork makes the dream work”. Working as a team means that we must work together, always thinking of the well-being of everyone equally.
Teamwork
makes it possible, not only to win in sports and to carry out a large number of
tasks but also to prevent accidents. Several eyes see more than two, several
hands can do more than two, and several minds can prevent much more than one.
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What is teamwork?
Teamwork
arises from the need to improve the positive safety culture, performance, attitudes and loyalty of the workgroup and occur when a group of people try to cooperate,
using their skills and providing constructive feedback, beyond any conflict
that could occur on a personal level.
Teamwork
fosters a sense of loyalty, safety and self-esteem that satisfies the
individual needs of the members, valuing their belonging, and striving to
maintain positive relationships within and outside the team.
What is required to achieve teamwork?
To achieve
true teamwork, which impacts the organizational safety climate, we need to have
certain mainly attitudinal characteristics, namely:
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- Share new ideas and provide
solutions.
- Contribute opinions, and offer
relevant information and facts.
- Coordination and cooperation in the
activities of all members.
- Empathy; understanding the other, taking
an interest in the ideas of others and developing them.
Effective teamwork
No matter the size of the team, when those workers are engaged, developing and using their strengths in health and safety every day, their performance is easier to manage, and keeping the 5 C's in mind can help.
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- Communication: Without a doubt, communication is
one of the pillars of teamwork. You need an empathetic sender, a clear message
and a receiver who listens actively to evaluate your different problems from a
similar point of view.
- Coordination: The leader must be accessible to
team members and have flexibility in coordinating positively. To obtain the
best possible results from each of the individuals that are part of a team,
coordination is essential.
- Complementarity: The leader can assign each of the
team members a specific task according to their specific areas. The formation
of teams both at the individual and professional levels of each member will
enrich the results of common work.
- Confidence: To facilitate agility at work, trust
is essential. The leader must clearly and concisely explain the health and
safety-related hazards and precautions to the team.
- Commitment: When the above points are done
efficiently, the employee engagement of the team will grow. Employees are an
asset that can be used to evaluate the risks and improve workplace safety.
Teamwork in the workplace
There are
many ways we can work together as a team to prevent accidents. If we all
cooperate in carrying out order and cleaning work, we are working together to prevent
that work from being left to just one person or from accumulating and causing
accidents.
The same
thing happens when we make repairs and inspections to machines when cleaning
the aisles picking up materials from the floor, storing tools and other materials
that are not used in their proper place, or when to assist other workers with
lifting heavy objects.
When we talk
about teamwork in the industry, it is necessary to keep in mind that we must
keep our work team intact. Like the athletes, we also abide by certain rules,
use the necessary personal protective equipment and work as a team.
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Remember
that we are working as a team and that if one of us makes a mistake because he
decides not to follow an established rule and has an accident, the rest of the
team loses something. All this has as a consequence losses in production and
above all a human loss.
In the
industry, when we violate an accident prevention rule, we ignore it, and the
fine we receive is much higher and more transcendental than the one imposed on
players in sports. Violation of that rule may result in a worker being
permanently out of work and no one – not you, not any member of our department,
not the company – can afford to be injured or lose a worker for this reason.
As I said
before, this has serious consequences for everyone because production
decreases, the team suffers from the lack of a worker and the worker suffers injury.
Suppose we
are all rowing a boat down a river. We must all row at the same time
maintaining the same rhythm and compass to be able to move quickly and
comfortably. If one of us is late or does it improperly, it causes him to lose
that rhythm that he had before. In other words, one team member's mistake or
carelessness brings down the entire team's effort.
Conclusion
As you can see, teamwork is vital for the success of an organization's objectives, and to achieve this it is necessary to provide a good work environment where employees can develop optimally individually and collectively. Finally, we must remember that as teamwork makes you win in sports, it also facilitates production at work, but more importantly, Teamwork makes the dream work.
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this toolbox and you want me to talk about another preventive toolbox topic,
leave me a comment or write to munir.munir83@gmail.com.
Conduct this toolbox topic so that more people get involved in changing the
culture of prevention and together we can achieve safer, healthier and more
competitive companies.
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