Safety culture is a fabric of organizational culture. Both organisational and safety practices guide how the workforce engage in safe work practices and respond to operational demands at any given time.
There is increasing dialogue around the volume and subsequent effectiveness of practices and procedures that have entered the safety arena with the goal of guiding workplace behaviour.
Whilst a core aspect of safety revolves around a systematic process by which hazards are identified, the risks are measured and managed, this is more of a tactical approach towards providing a safe workplace, and is reliant on how the human factor and organizational procedures interact.
The expressed challenge is that procedures can become the master versus the servant, resulting in an overreliance on procedures, limiting the amount of cognitive awareness required to identify hazards and risks, and make effective risk based decisions.
An overreliance on procedures can contribute to a culture of compliance, and requires the necessary supervision and management.
Conventional safety training programs often target larger groups with a broad-based approach by way of delivering information, whereas organisational coaching focuses on an individualized approach to gain a more impactful organisational reach at the leadership level.
Our safety leadership coaching program focuses on building leadership capability to engage the workforce through creating an environment for thinking, not just doing. We develop leaders with an ‘influential’ skillset and augment this through practical application in the field.
Our safety leadership coaching focuses on fostering an ‘aware’ safety culture through leadership engaging with personnel across all hierarchal levels within the organisation. This starts with building influential leadership skills at the social level to gain a receptiveness of ‘real time’ operations and how the human factor is interacting within the system.
An ‘aware’ safety culture is the ‘engine’ that builds resilience within the organisation to manage operational risks and challenges, regardless of the business climate and commercial pressures at any time.
We believe that leadership has the potential to be all encompassing, in both a safety and production context, arriving at a cohesive merger of both.