Safety leadership behaviour

How leaders behave at all levels of an organisation is instrumental in exerting influence over how others behave.

Leaders exert influence through:

  • Providing clarity about what is important and valued.
  • Showing others how to behave through exemplary modelling of critical behaviours.
  • Reinforcing behaviour when they see others acting safely.

How we can support your company

Beginning at the top of the organisation we work with your Leadership Team to help its members clarify or review core values, the safety vision and key guiding principles. Together these form the basis of how people in the company should behave at all levels. Having achieved this clarity, we then guide the Leadership Team in how to make these aspects of safety management “come alive” throughout all aspects of your company’s operations.

We also work with your Leadership Team to help identify the critical leadership behaviours and the means to ensure that these are consistently practiced. The focus here is on individual members of the Leadership Team and all those others in the company who perform a safety leadership role.

Part of our emphasis here is on the more informal aspects of leadership influence. Leaders, by their presence, will be exerting influence - both intended and unintended. We explore how certain behaviours can produce inadvertent and negative influence and in so doing raise the awareness of leaders to new positive levels such that they create a stronger drive within the organisation.

A further focus is on audit and evaluation. Our work here is directed at supporting your company to determine that your people are behaving as intended. The starting point for this is the safety values and principles – the aim being to establish the extent to which these are consistently reflected in people’s behaviour and decision-making.

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