It’s all about People, Behaviour & Culture Change
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All Safe – Willmott Dixon
All Safe is about creating a positive culture that covers the way we think, act and work together every day ALL SAFE is more than just another safety initiative. Launched in March 2012, it
Sailing through stormy waters – Effective leadership in a VUCA world
10 Tips on how to Lead in Flux Make your vision and direction of travel very long-term Frankly, no-one can be certain what will happen in the next 6 or 12 months – and if
Is your Organisation Adrift?
People are fallible, and even the best people make mistakes. A study by the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) published some years ago discovered that humans, on average, make 5 errors every hour. It’s
Executive Exposure – Directors in the Dock
Recent years have seen a marked increase in the number of prosecutions brought against individual directors and managers for alleged neglect of duty in health and safety matters: Who is in the HSE’s sights? What
Bridging the Culture Gap… Engaging the Suits and the Boots
“Oh no, here comes the Fun Police” said Gerard Hand (past President of IOSH), a comment which drew laughter around the room. However, alongside the laughter was a wave of nodding heads acknowledging that
The benefits of taking a systems thinking view to behaviour and behaviour change interventions.
It’s time to move away from the traditional approaches to behavioural safety Following a sustained period of improvement in accident statistics across the construction industry, there has been a levelling off with little change
Blagging It
Manage to obtain (something) by using persuasion or guile. {source – Oxford living dictionary} A term many of us have heard over the years but do we ever question how much of this is
Eyes on the clock – Dealing with the first 48 hours of a serious health and safety incident
How an organisation responds in the immediate aftermath of a serious health and safety incident can have a significant bearing on both the commercial and legal outcomes of the incident. Such incidents, particularly those
What stops companies being compliant to the provision and use of work equipment regulations 1998 (PUWER)?
I have been inspired to write this article on PUWER as so many of the companies I have worked for were initially not compliant to this legislation. The regulations came out in 1998 and we
