Welcome to the June 2025 edition of CORESafety TV, brought to you by the National Mining Association (NMA).

Recently, NMA developed an updated version of CORESafety, the legacy safety and health management system (SHMS) for our member companies.

CORESafety TV is now featuring an overview of each of the ten (10) new modules that comprise the system.

Take a few minutes now for a look at Module 5 —

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CORESafety Module 5:
Training and Education

A Safety and Health Management System (SHMS) is interdependent with the organization’s safety culture.

Whether the culture is strong and positive depends on the degree to which leadership understands current characteristics, has a clear idea of what it should look like—based on vision, values, and strategy—and has a process to actively enhance it.

Culture change takes planning, involvement, inclusion and patience.

One way that culture can be ascertained is through snapshot measurements of the current climate via confidential employee perception surveys and interviews.

Companies may elect to conduct their own cultural assessment, use other publicly available tools (e.g., NIOSH) or work with third-party experts.

Once strengths and weaknesses are identified, a culture enhancement plan can be developed and implemented. Embedded in any culture enhancement plan should be the recognition of psychosocial risks.

Culture can be measured and managed if safety and health remain an organizational value. Additionally, combining psychological safety with diversity, equity and inclusion workplace initiatives has shown a strong, positive impact on safety culture.

Small changes that are consistently evaluated and improved over time can yield a culture that has a long-lasting effect on safety and health performance.

CORESafety Expectations

• A defined set of company values must be communicated to the workforce and visibly supported.
• Confidential surveys or other assessments to monitor perceptions, strengths and weaknesses of the company’s safety culture must be conducted periodically and repeated on a defined schedule.
• Survey results must be analyzed to develop, maintain and follow a culture improvement plan.
• A process must be in place for anonymous reporting of hazards, close calls (near hits) or other safety and health issues.
• There must be a formal but transparent process to reinforce and recognize safer/healthier actions of the workforce.
• The organization must commit to upholding a workplace that is free from harassment.

MORE TO KNOW

Be sure to watch CORESafety TV in the coming months as we update you on all ten of the new CORESafety modules!

To visit our CORESafety website, click here.