Fostering Positive Safety: 5 Essential Takeaways from Our Latest Report
Fostering a positive safety culture within an organisation is no easy task, especially for safety professionals who are often on the front lines of this critical mission. Despite best efforts, progress can sometimes feel elusive—like taking two steps forward and three steps back. But what if there was a way to make meaningful, lasting changes […]
Practical Ways to Enhance Psychosocial Safety in Your Workplace
Across most states in Australia, new legislation has focused increasingly on psychosocial safety, requiring organisations to evaluate and manage hazards and risks. In the past, organisations have often approached this element of safety reactively after an injury or incident has occurred. This tick-and-flick mentality may have included rolling out yoga and free snacks in the […]
The State Of Safety In New Zealand
An Insight Into Our Neighbouring Nation As an Australian-owned company, we share a strong bond with our partners in New Zealand. With so many cultural and geographical similarities between us, you wouldn’t be mistaken for assuming that our statistics and trajectories around safety were similar too. However, when you take a look into the safety […]
Don’t Blame the Player, Blame the Game: How to Shift Away From a Safety Culture of Blame and Avoidance
During our time as safety culture experts, we’ve seen the inner workings of organisations that span across every stage of our safety culture maturity model, each with their own unique traits and characteristics. But of them all, there’s one type of cultural trait that stands out as a key indicator of poor cultural maturity and safety […]
From Policing to Partnering: The Power of Coaching Conversations
Many safety leaders dream of a workplace where individuals are willing to go above and beyond the base expectation to achieve exemplary safe work performance. But how do we make that dream a reality when so many of us are struggling just to gain compliance with safety policies and procedures? Research at Sentis has revealed that 86% […]
Challenging Safety Conversations: The Most Important Things to Say Aren’t Always the Easiest
As humans, we’re generally a socially conscious species. We try to avoid negative situations, smooth over uncomfortable interactions and generally try to get along with others in social situations. The problem is that when it comes to our safety efforts, this deeply rooted notion of “playing nice” can backfire and hold us back on our […]
Building Trust in Teams: 4 Tips for Effective Safety Leadership
When thinking about how to develop a strong safety culture, it’ll come as no surprise that it’s heavily reliant on the relationships between your workers and your leaders. Even if leaders are actively striving to promote safe behaviours, one aspect of effective safety leadership is often overlooked—the importance of building trust. Unlike more tangible efforts […]
How to Empower Employees to Speak Up For Safety
Psychological safety is critical to achieving a positive safety culture and minimising unwanted safety behaviours—including underreporting. With a strategic focus on creating trust, security and learning, organisations can empower employees to speak up for safety. Isaac is using a piece of heavy machinery when he notices it isn’t working like it usually does. Something feels […]
