Is Your Safety Management Approach Holding Your Team Back?
When thinking about how to improve your workplace health and safety, one of the most common management styles is to go with the “stick” approach. That is, to focus on punishing your team members when they break safety protocols with the aim of minimising unsafe behaviours. From seemingly harmless incidents such as calling them out […]
Measuring Safety Excellence: Lead vs Lag Indicators
In pursuit of safety excellence, businesses invest huge amounts of money, time and energy in safety improvement initiatives. However, relatively few can pinpoint the positive effect of these on their safety culture. So, how should you track the effectiveness of safety interventions and improvement in safety culture? Previously, focus has been on the reduction of lag […]
Is Your Safety Culture Helping or Hindering Compliance?
Traditionally, health and safety efforts have focused on the physical parts of an organisation. The environment in which people work, along with the tools, equipment, machinery and substances that are used to perform work, should be risk assessed and any hazardous conditions managed as effectively as possible. This requirement is enshrined in WHS legislation, both […]
Sentis Safety Wins Top Spot at 31st SIOP Conference
The Sentis approach to safety culture diagnosis and measurement has been roundly endorsed at the 31st Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP) held in California in April 2016. Sentis’ paper outlining its approach to measuring the maturity of a company’s safety culture was selected as a top ten submission and awarded special presentation at the […]