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Event and Activity Suggestions
- Officially acknowledge NAOSH Week with a flag-raising ceremony and signing of a NAOSH Week proclamation by your mayor,
community dignitaries and other government officials.
- Host a public symposium on health and safety issues in your
community and work with a local business, service organization,
supplier to sponsor the event.
- Host a safety day camp for school children, employees and
their families.
- Launch a recognition program for safety suggestions that are put
into use or enhance ongoing health and safety practices.
- Conduct an open house that focuses on health and safety. Involve
suppliers. Invite local dignitaries, clients and colleagues.
- Conduct training sessions for employees.
- Partner with suppliers and community health & safety organizations
to set up specific safety demonstrations, focused on safe work
habits, for employees and/or people in the community, in shopping
malls, for example.
- Introduce “Captain Safety” to schools, businesses, retail stores and
your community in general.
- Launch a “New Worker" Orientation Manual. Conduct orientation
and training sessions specific to the new and inexperienced worker.
- Sponsor a poster contest for employee’s children and create a
safety calendar for your staff and clients.
- Promote NAOSH Week through articles in your company newsletter.
- Develop “Fact Sheets” for distribution.
- Introduce games, contests to test knowledge of safety & health
facts and information. Ideas include cross word puzzles, “Are You
Safer Than a Fifth Grader?”, scavenger hunts.
- Insert NAOSH Week messages in correspondence, memorandums
and e-mails to staff.
- Display NAOSH Week posters in offices, on bulletin boards, at work
stations. Encourage local retailers and businesses to show their
support by displaying NAOSH Week posters.
- Use NAOSH Week mugs, wristbands, caps, t-shirts, etc as awards
for safety achievements and to extend the awareness of
NAOSH Week.
- Display a NAOSH Week banner/flag in a prominent location in your
community. For example, the NAOSH Week banner has been seen
on a railway overpass, on the side of warehouses and at events.
Likewise, the NAOSH Week flag has been raised in public squares
and proudly flown outside business locations.
- Send public service announcements (PSA) to local radio stations,
and contact local media to arrange interviews or promote
organization’s activities.
- Work with community newspapers to publish a special supplement
featuring safety articles, advertising, the NAOSH Week logo and
NAOSH Week events and activities.
- Invite school classes to tour your operations, highlighting basic
safety features and the importance of working safely.
- Host a personal protective equipment fashion show.
- Plan a program for students using posters, videos and/or speakers.
- Work with local school boards to coordinate special events, special
safety days or help them expand their safety efforts.
- Work with high school students to promote safety as a career.
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