Managing safety with your people
What if managing workplace health and safety risks and preventing harm could boil down to engaging the people doing the work?
It probably sounds overly simplistic, but is exactly the approach taken by one of our long-term collaborators, construction giant Hansen Yuncken.
Through its Many Minds approach, Hansen Yuncken has activated its workers to flip the management of workplace health and safety on its head. Rather than prioritising rules, compliance, processes and checklists, the HY team focuses on its people.
This means:
They don’t dictate the rules, but partner with workers to create the rules together
Using success as the best foundation to build more success
Work is not a tick in the box
They ask the right questions to understand how work gets done.
It’s a particularly human-centric approach that we are big advocates of at Everyday Massive. Because winning hearts and minds, and importantly shifting behaviour around safety, requires doing it with people, rather than to people.
Check out some of the highlights of our CEO Tim Evans’ SafeTea chat with Kurt Warren from Hansen Yuncken.
Organisations working in high-risk industries will always have workplace health and safety risks that need to be controlled or minimised. Being curious and working in partnership with your people to ask better questions, and use their experience, ideas and contributions to shape your health and safety program is guaranteed to net better outcomes than the alternative.
If you’re stuck with ideas for how to engage your workforce in safety, we have a resource which might help! Anyone who signs up to our Everyday Insights newsletter before 31 October 2022 gets immediate access to Three Ways to Engage Your Workforce in Safety.
