What Is Safety Culture? A Practical Guide for High-Risk Workplaces
If you’ve ever asked what is safety culture, and why some workplaces stay safe while others keep having the same incidents, you’re asking the right question. Safety culture is the shared set of values, beliefs and behaviours that shape how people approach safety every day, especially when no one’s watching. It’s the difference between following […]
Why Pre-Start Meetings Are So Influential in Safety Culture
Pre-starts, toolbox talks and pre-shift meetings are routine across many industries. They bring teams together before work begins, creating a moment to focus attention, align expectations and discuss safety and performance. For leaders, these conversations happen in busy, high-pressure environments. Time is limited, production demands are high, and teams are often distracted while leaders juggle […]
Making Pre-Starts Land: Practical Insights from the Field
Pre-starts — often called toolbox talks, pre-shift meetings or daily safety briefings — are part of everyday work across many industries. When they’re done well, they help teams feel prepared, focused and aligned before the day begins. They set the tone for how people think about risk, how they communicate with one another, and how […]
Transform Your Coaching Game: The Skill Every Leader Needs
In today’s evolving workplace, traditional management approaches no longer cut it. The modern leader isn’t just a supervisor – they’re a coach, a collaborator and a catalyst for growth. But what does it actually mean to coach effectively? And how can organisations unlock the real power of coaching to drive performance, engagement and safety? Dr. […]
AIHS Endorsement for Sentis Safety Leadership Masterclass
Sentis is excited to announce our online 12-week Safety Leadership Masterclass has been endorsed by the Australian Institute of Health and Safety (AIHS). In addition to joining an incredible body of resources for practicing safety professionals of all stripes, this means eligible members can gain 100 Continuing Professional Development Credit (CPD) points by successfully completing the course. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
5 Ways to Start Driving a Positive Safety Culture
Big changes start with small steps Your organisation’s safety culture is defined by the shared attitudes, beliefs and values that your people hold. In essence, it’s a measure of ‘the way things are done around here’ when it comes to workplace safety. And while many of us would expect our safety culture to be in […]
5 Key Lessons from High-Performing Safety Cultures
When seeking to drive safety performance improvement, we often look to previous incidents to see how we can prevent them from reoccurring in the future. But while this is a necessary step in the right direction, if our focus is only based on avoiding mistakes, instead of also actively aspiring towards excellence, we risk a […]