Workplace safety works only as a genuinely shared contract, and most countries write it into law that way. Employers hold the structural side: providing a workplace free of known hazards, proper equipment and protective gear, training in a language workers actually understand, clear emergency procedures, insurance or compensation coverage as local law requires, and a reporting culture where flagging a danger never costs anyone their standing. Safety that exists only in a binder is not safety; it has to be resourced, inspected, and modeled by management.
Employees hold the behavioral side: following procedures even when shortcuts are faster, using the protective equipment provided, reporting hazards and near-misses promptly instead of assuming someone else will, staying current on training, and looking out for colleagues, especially new ones who have not yet learned where the dangers live. The near-miss report is the most undervalued act in workplace safety, since every serious accident is usually preceded by ignored small warnings.