Safety Culture

Inspiring Safety (Workers want to vs Have to)

Ensuring that everyone in your workplaces are safety conscious, understand the hazards and want to be safe is critical. Most workplaces provide leaders with many safety courses on the various regulations, on safe equipment use and accident investigations to name a few. These are all great and very important. However, a new leader just starting out may not yet have the confidence, effective communication skills or experience to effectively apply these skills.

The workshop focuses on learning to ask the right questions and that every incident (injury, loss of process) should be reviewed regardless of severity. Various tools can be used from a basic 5 Why to a more in depth iCams investigation.

We want leaders to inspire positive safety behaviour along with achieving all of the production goals. That is a Safety Culture.

I show the group how regional or site statistics can be used to drive improvement or challenge current practices. Most organizations collect an abundance of safety and environmental performance data but it is then poorly used to identify trends and root causes (chronic cultural issues).

• Workplace Rate vs Canada Average (similar industry)

• LTIs in the last few years? Preventable?

• Who is getting hurt (Industry, Occupation, Age Groups)

• What are we hurting? (Body Part, Injury Type)

• How are we hurting ourselves? (Event and Source of Injury)

• Why are we hurting our workers?

What the law says:

"competent person“ means a person who,

•is qualified because of their knowledge, training, and experience to organize the work and its performance,

•is familiar with the provisions of this Act and the regulations that apply to the work, and

•has knowledge of any potential or actual danger to health or safety in the workplace;

"supervisor"

•means a competent person who has charge of a workplace or authority over a worker;

"worker"

•means a person who performs services for an employer under an express or implied contract of employment or apprenticeship, and includes

any person engaged in training for mine rescue work and any person who is doing rescue work at a mine after an accident, and

•the employees of a contractor who is engaged in operations under a contract the contractor has with another person.

The goal of the workshop and the field coaching is not to teach the What but enable them to understand the Why and the How to inspire safety in their teams.