Safety Leadership

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RoadTek
Safety Leadership
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Objectives

• Explore and share ideas about some basic concepts
  of Leadership and how they can be applied in WHS
• Begin development of your own safety leadership
  improvement strategy

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Leadership What is it?
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Leadership is not

• Not Power -
• Power derives from status, money, ability to
  harm, access to media or control materials
• A Thug who sticks a gun in you back has power
  but not leadership

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Leadership is not

• Not Status -
• Status or position may enhance the opportunity
  for leadership
• Some in a high status or position havent got a
  clue how to lead
• Not Authority
• A person may have subordinates, but not
  followers
• People will only follow if a person acts as a
  leader

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Leadership is not

• Not Management -
• Management is an organizational skill
• Managers preside over procesesses, functions and
  program

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The leadership role, more than any other
function, shapes and influences the culture that
produces performance outcomes
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head
thats assault, not leadership Pres. Dwight D.
Eisenhower
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Impact of Leadership

• Excellent safety performance is about getting the
  right behaviour from people.
• Although necessary, it is not about systems and
  procedures.
• As a leader, you have a tremendous impact in the
  field by what you
• Say
• Do
• Dont say or dont do

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Visible Leadership
Primary Key for achieving Safety Success
SAFETY LEADERSHIP

VISIBLE COMMITMENT
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Your Role as a Leader

• Excellent performance requires your leadership
• As a leader you should know
• how our safety programs work and your role in
  them
• the importance of leadership in getting the right
  behaviours

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Leading in the Field

• Walk the talk
• Demonstrate your commitment with visible actions
• Follow-through with actions
• Never turn a blind eye
• Hold others accountable

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Your Job as a Safety Leader is to

• Explain the HSE process to employees
• Provide effective feedback
• INTERVENE NEVER walk past an unsafe act or
  condition. To do so is to approve or condone the
  activity or condition
• Seek to understand WHY the situation or behaviour
  was that way
• And so correct the problem, not treat the symptom

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At-Risk Behaviour
If you see someone taking a risk, you are
authorised to Stop the job Talk to them Explain
the risk Explain the safe way If you are ignored
they continue to take the risk, Report it
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Personalise your leadership

• Use words like
• I need you to
• My expectations are
• I want you to...
• Not
• The Client want you to
• WHS Advisor requires
• My boss wants

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words

• Lead by example
• Employees will subconsciously follow your actions
  
• They always pick up the bad habits first!
• Show them the way
• Nominate individuals and teams for awards and
  certificates

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Recognition

• Give plenty of verbal recognition to individuals
  and teams for jobs well done
• Let individuals and team known when you observe
  their safe behaviour
• Use pre-start safety talks to provide feedback
• Catch your team doing the right thing!!

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Safety Leadership Journey
Inspire Others to Behave Safely
Leadership
Ongoing Journey
Personal Approach
Transformational
(Consultation/Mutual Respect)
Discover and share other ways of operating
Why we are here today
Raised Awareness
Build Relationships
(Conversation)
System Procedures Policies Forms
Compliance Licence to Operate
Transactional - Tasks
(Talk at and Tell)
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Practical Tools To Apply Leadership
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Understanding Peoples Behaviour
ABC Model
Activator Events that precede behaviour and
prompt it. Have 20 impact impact on
behaviour E.g. Training, personal beliefs,
behaviour of others, past experience, requested
to do something
Behaviour Things people say and their
actions Behaviour determines performance
Consequences Events that follow behaviour Have
80 influence on whether behaviour occurs again
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Principles of ABC
Understanding Peoples Behaviour

• Majority of all incidents are caused by people
  behaving in unsafe ways
• Understanding employee behaviour is fundamental
  to the success of creating a safe workplace
• Premise of model is that all Behaviour (B) is a
  function of its immediate environment.
• Factors such as Activators (A) and Consequences
  (C) of each behaviour trigger and sustain it

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ABC Model

• Activator Aspect of the environment, precedes
  and influences behaviour
• Eg Others are doing it or The right tool/plant
  not available
• Behaviour Something you can see, every day
  every task Its either safe or unsafe
• Consequence Every behaviour is followed by a
  series of consequences

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ABC Model - Examples

• Someone is speeding in the workplace
• Why are they speeding? Thrill, Late for work,
  emergency, attitude, nice road to speed
• Ended up as crash, caught by Police, someone
  else ran off the road
• Activity - Work out the ABC!
• Activity Think of Some others
• As a Leader Ask the questions

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How we reward Unsafe Behaviours
How we punish safe behaviour indirectly
Key Message ABC Model is a cultural change
tool Moves culture from one that inadvertently
encourages unsafe behaviour and punishes safe
behaviour To one that increases positive
behaviour through reinforcement
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Psychology of Influencing Others

• The part of the brain that determines what we are
  going to pay attention to
• You can program your RAS
• You can program other peoples RAS
• Influencing Positively with RAS questions

Reticular Activating System (RAS)
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Influencing Positively RAS Questions -

• What might happen if you fall?
• What impact does it have for others if they see
  you doing it that way?
• Have you thought about the consequences?
• How can you improve on that?
• Activity - Can you think of Others?

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Consult and Communicate

• Intent
• Look Observe
• Engage
• Ask Questions
• Discuss Consequences

iLEAD
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Leading an Effective Toolbox Talk/Pre-Start
Meeting

• Target
• Engage
• Ask Questions
• Mutually Agree

TEAM
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In Short

• You are the key to high performance. Your job as
  a Leader is as much about SAFETY as it as about
  productivity
• Know and understand the expectations and systems
• Ask for support whenever needed demand it!
• If in doubt, STOP THE WORK
• Document your efforts

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REMEMBER
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Safety Leadership Commitment Statement

• What is it?
• One page written statement
• Personal commitment made to your health safety
• Commitment to what you will or will not do
• Share your commitment with you collogues by
  posting in visible location i.e. office door,
  work station etc
• Why?
• Create a total safety culture
• Next step towards achieving the our goal of Zero
  Harm

At work on the roads in the home!
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Any questions? Your turn
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Summary of Safety Leadership Attributes
Safety Leaders
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Your attention and participation was appreciated