The old adage, “common sense is not that common”, is well and true, but I want to remove it from your vocabulary all together. In its place, I ask you to think about how you might be influencing workplace behaviour by what you demonstrate to others is a priority to you. In this video I’ll give you 3 questions you can ask yourself to assist in this process.
When it comes to health and safety reporting there is no blanket template. All businesses have different needs, and you want to make sure to be monitoring what matters to your business. The key to your reporting should be to give you confidence that you’re controlling risk and highlight how health & safety activities are creating value in your organisation. Today I break down the purpose of lead and lag health & safety performance indicators, and how each of them should be used in your reporting.
In his 12 years as CEO and Chair at Alcoa, Paul O’Neill increased annual net income by five times, its market capitalisation by $27 billion and led to the company becoming one of the best performing stocks on the Dow Jones Index – he attributes all the success to a focus on workplace health & safety and I’m going to share with you how he did it.
This week I’m using Stephen Covey’s strategy ‘Think Win/Win’, to show you how you can have greater influence over others without relying on your job title or your role in the organisation.
This is the second instalment in a 2-part series on BowTie risk assessments. Today I show you how to apply the hierarchy of controls to a BowTie risk assessment which will ultimately give you a better understanding of where to target your resources and improve your monitoring and assurance activities.