ABSTRACT

Safety walks have an agenda (probably a standard form), a targeted location or route, and people trained in compliance safety who conduct the safety walk. The sole focus of traditional safety walks is to identify noncompliance

situations. To find those noncompliance items, the participants on a compliance safety walk usually only look at “things” and “stuff,” not people. A Safety Gemba Walk only has a targeted location or locations and a skilled facilitator who, using his or her interpersonal skills, engages workers in a dialogue in order to identify opportunities to make their work safer and easier.