5 Characteristics of Effective Teams

All teams share certain essential characteristics that make them effective. These characteristics are:

1. Focus. Effective teams are focused on the same safety mission—identifying hazards, working safely, and preventing accidents.
2. Goals. Effective teams understand safety goals and commit to achieving them. Everybody on the team works together toward the same goals to achieve success and prevent injuries.
3. Involvement. When teams are successful, it’s because employees all over the workplace are involved in safety programs and in efforts to improve workplace safety.
4. Cooperation. On effective teams members cooperate with one another and depend on each another to identify hazards, follow safety procedures, and prevent accidents.
5. Communication. Because team members are interdependent, they must be constantly communicating, sharing information, giving warnings, reinforcing safe behavior, and talking up safety.

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