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Has your business improved its health and safety in 2021?
How do you know? What are you measuring? What does better look like? There’s the obvious; less harm done, measure… But that isn’t a measure of improvement, it’s a measure of the absence of harm…[…]
The assumption that you can make a behaviour happen by creating a form to be filled in, handing out said form and auditing its completion…
We are forever changing, we are become different people as we move through different environments.
But…
Close calls are filled in to meet the quota of close calls needed to be filled in.
Close call programmes don’t directly improve safety.
If safety improves, it wasn’t the close call reporting that led to safety improvement…
When we are asking people to do things, we often use abbreviated versions of behaviours to describe what we are looking for. […]
A lot of people ask me how they can make it more likely that their at-risk workers wear the basic PPE, especially light eye protection.
I’m not a fan of blanket policies, but if you have them, the worst thing you can do is not to stand by them. So.[…]
Method statements, Risk assessments, Safe Systems of work, if done correctly, as good as they can be, are at best and only, planning documents.
They are not behaviour driving documents.[…]
Your brain adapts and changes to/by the behaviours (actions) you do.
Every day, your behaviours shape and reshape your neural networks […]
Having the right mindset, beliefs and values will lead to improved health and safety performance, right?
Well, only if these thoughts manifest into physical things.
There is no escaping the fact that in order for safety to happen[…]