Behavioural Based Safety Challenges
Safety is a serious business. It’s about lives, not numbers.
There are significant challenges that organisations face in changing perceptions about Safety.
Through extensive work with global clients, we often hear the same, or similar, obstacles to developing a culture of Safety Excellence.
Safety can be seen by employees as a ‘barrier’ to doing their job, something that is unexciting, time consuming or a performance area that is not rewarded. The most significant challenge, however, is changing the view that Safety in the workplace is purely the responsibility of EHS teams and business leaders.
To successfully create an environment where safe behaviours are intrinsic, unsafe acts are challenged and near misses are acted upon, Line Managers, Team Leaders and all employees must take ownership of Safety. They must be inspired and empowered to do so from the top.
Like almost all other organisational change or performance improvement initiatives, Safety starts with Leadership.
