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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.

Planning Your Event

Be innovative in your NAOSH Week plans! Attracting people's attention is easier with interesting or unusual methods of promoting health and safety activities.

Your NAOSH Week events and activities will be successful, with Involvement, support and enthusiasm. Establish a NAOSH Week planning committee and Involve everyone – staff, workplace Occupational Health and Safety Committees, CSSE members, representatives from business, suppliers, government, city, municipalities, retailers and other safety organizations.

Develop a proposal and outline plans for events and activities that will support company/ business safety objectives and promote senior-level involvement and participation. Plan for broad sector involvement, whenever possible,through a variety of events – public, corporate, private industry and community events.