Go check…
Do you have a daily checklist for something or other? As part of your processes, you ask someone to complete a checklist, daily, every day, for the same thing they did the day before?[…]
Absence of injury, absence of data
You can’t judge how compliant, experienced or competent your people are on the amount of accidents, incidents or health issues you have or don’t have….
Judging performance
You can’t judge how compliant, experienced or competent your people are on the amount of accidents, incidents or health issues you have or don’t have.[…]
Has your business improved its health and safety in 2021?
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…[…]
Measure what matters, not what is easy
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…
Our actions, the way we do things
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
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…
What is a behaviour?
When we are asking people to do things, we often use abbreviated versions of behaviours to describe what we are looking for. […]
How to get at-risk workers to wear light eye protection
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.[…]
Documents vs Environment
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.[…]