Achieving world-class safety: The role of executive leaders
In the 21st century, executive leaders lead by example, set direction, support teams with time, resources, training, and encouragement, enable teams to function, recognize successes, and ensure that responsibility and accountability are aligned. will do so.
Achieving world-class safety: The role of executive leaders
Executives running world-class businesses must make difficult choices about their business and their employees while remaining competitive. But given the reality of these decisions and successful outcomes, how do these executives value safety?
For example, maintaining consistency in quality, customer service, and satisfaction, hiring and retaining great employees, and maintaining a competitive edge with good reviews from local communities and regulators where safety culture is poor or non-existent. Is it really possible to do so?
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Successful companies expect employees at all levels to do the right thing: follow good business ethics, perform tasks correctly, and commit to continuous improvement. None of these values can be achieved without a positive, proactive and consistent safety culture.
Examples of how to identify bad employers with no safety culture include:
- No defined safety culture
- No effective safety program
- Lack of effective task procedures and little or no direction regarding task performance
- Lack of effective training for new hires or employees assigned to new tasks
- No training for employees promoted to supervisor or manager roles
- lack of effective leadership
- Employee performance is not evaluated
- Employees are not involved or participating in continuous improvement
- High absenteeism, turnover, and injuries
This can result in poor quality of work, poor customer relations and retention, poor compliance, poor maintenance of equipment, poor employee performance, punitive discipline, poor relationships between employees and supervisors/managers, or This leads to a lack of trust with other employees.
Here’s what we offer to employers who strive for excellence. After all, what sets them apart is their superior safety.
lead the way
Safety is a team sport. A professional team cannot win with an unmotivated coach or players who don’t respect the coach. Safety does not start from the bottom and work its way up, nor is it something that is mandated and ignored at the top.
Executives must lead by example. World-class leaders demonstrate a commitment to safety as a constant value, not a priority that changes depending on the situation. Wearing appropriate PPE in production areas, consulting employees about safety concerns and hazards, communicating safety practices through meetings and emails, and ensuring that employees have a genuine commitment to not getting injured. Showing interest and supporting proper incident investigation and implementation of completed action items are just a few examples. It means leading a team.