How Repeat Safety Assessments Drive Organisational Health
The importance of tracking your safety culture and climate Just as a routine health check-up safeguards your wellbeing, continual assessments of your safety culture and climate play an equally critical role in ensuring a thriving and secure workplace. These evaluations provide a looking glass into the collective beliefs, values and perceptions about safety within your […]
The New Frontier in Workplace Health and Safety: Taking the Lead on Psychosocial Safety
In 2023 and beyond, psychosocial risk management is expected to be a top priority on workplace agendas due to the release of Safe Work Australia’s model Code of Practice, ‘Managing psychosocial hazards at work’ (and the landmark ISO 45003 global standard, released in 2021). The release of this new code has been hailed as the […]
Underreporting and the Implications for Serious Injury Management
Incident underreporting impacts the number of serious injury fatalities and incidents within organisations. A recent analysis of over 2,000 incidents and near misses within mining and engineering services shows that one in five incidents have a serious fatality outcome potential. Yet many organisations struggle to classify serious incidents, and as a result, about 45% of […]
Leadership style crucial to tackling the great workforce divide in utilities
An ‘us versus them’ environment fuels a negative safety culture Utilities are an essential service in the community. Neighbourhoods across the country rely on them to keep switching their lights on, run water from a tap and dispose of their rubbish. Proud of their contribution, workers across this sector are dedicated to a ‘job well […]
Safety Citizenship: The Gold Standard of Safety Culture
Organisations need to invest in all four dimensions of safety culture to effectively manage risk and create a strong and positive safety culture. But what does good look like? And how do you get there? Safety citizenship is the gold standard of safety culture. It represents a significant opportunity for organisations to capitalise on their greatest asset—their […]
A Simple Model for Understanding Your Safety Culture
Safety culture is an organisations’ shared perceptions, attitudes, values and beliefs about safety in the workplace—essentially, ‘the way things are done around here’. And a strong safety culture doesn’t happen by chance. Your organisation’s safety culture also influences safety performance and is a significant factor in predicting the likelihood of safety incidents. Safety culture reflects […]
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 […]
New Sentis Study Uncovers the State of Safety Culture Across Industry
Only 14% of organisational sites operate from a positive safety culture, according to a new study of 73 sites across agriculture, construction, government, healthcare, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas and utilities. For organisations whose sites fall into the remaining 86%, operating from a negative or unhelpful safety culture carries an increased risk of serious incidents […]
Encouraging a Culture of Safe Production
A healthy dose of performance pressure is crucial for maintaining optimal levels of production. It motivates teams meet their KPIs, deliver on production targets and stay on-task. Problems arise when levels of production pressure increase to the point that the focus on production starts to overshadow the importance of safe behaviours. Especially if your leaders […]