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 […]
5 Reasons for Underreporting and What You Can Do About It
Jim* had been working in the same blue-collar role for over 30 years. His shift began at 3 am every day. Before starting any work, he was required to complete at least 15 different checks on the machinery he was due to operate. When asked what he’d do if the machinery didn’t meet the required […]
4 Things Great Safety Leaders Will Be Doing This Year
A recent study* by the award-winning Sentis research team establishes that several factors inherent to a positive safety culture are driven by ‘great’ safety leadership. So, in companies that enjoy a positive safety culture, what are leaders doing differently? 1. Great safety leaders demonstrate a visible safety commitment A visible and genuine commitment to safety is […]
How to Refocus Your Team on Safety for the Year Ahead
Typically, the holiday season is a time to disengage from work, ‘refresh’ and enjoy some well-deserved time off with family and friends. However, when it comes time to return to work, how do you ensure that your team shift out of ‘holiday mode’ and refocus on safety, their work environment and the tasks at hand—including any […]
The 3Cs of ‘Doing No Harm’
SAFETY CULTURE, CLIMATE AND COMMUNICATION A recent Sentis study was accepted for presentation by the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP) exploring how safety climate and error management practices in healthcare influences the quality of safety communication. In this article we discuss the interaction of safety culture, climate and communication and the impact it has on ‘doing […]
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 […]
Negative Emotions: The Impact on Workplace Safety
Deep underground, a team methodically chips away at the hardened rock face. Their swinging movements are seemingly haphazard yet synchronised toward the goal of extracting hidden slivers of precious ore. The hypnotic strikes of tools are occasionally broken by the sounds of cascading rock and lumbering machinery. One worker stands out from the rest. His […]