This question enables you to showcase how you have handled safety-related issues in past positions. The interviewer wants to hear specific instances where you have improved safety or changed safety protocols for the benefit of a past employer and employees. The interviewer may also expand on this question during the interview and ask if you have any specific safety protocols you would recommend for their workplace.

Think about occupational health and safety in a comprehensive manner. Think of three or more scenarios where you addressed workplace safety or health issues. Consider all the possible threats to the well-being of workers in your past workplaces. Prepare for the interview by outlining any interventions you made to increase employee well-being and the impact your actions had on the frequency or severity of problems. Interventions can include worker education, training programs, workplace safety displays, a communications campaign, or establishing new policies and procedures. If you didn't have the opportunity to increase employee health in a previous work environment, think of problems you noted and strategies you would have enacted if you had been able to.