How to build a stronger safety culture with your team
As Australia’s economy tries to adjust to a new normal after the emergence of Covid19, businesses are facing many new challenges. Our clients have seen that these changes have had both positive and negative impacts on the transport industry’s safety culture.
With no expectation that things will go back to the way they were, managing change and protecting your team will be continue to be critical to business success in coming months.
Below are some tips on how can leaders and managers take the good from this disruption to strengthen and build a stronger safety culture with their wider team.
Firstly, what is a strong safety culture?
If you think of safety culture as “what we do around here”, a strong safety culture is one which; • Teams take ownership and respectfully hold each other accountable • Clear policies and procedures are communicated, adhered to and regularly reviewed • Incidents and near misses are openly reported, discussed and learning implemented and shared • WHS is taken seriously, and prioritised