The WHS ripple effect
Australia is a known world leader in workplace health and safety (WHS). In our experience of working with hundreds of collaborators over the years, the organisations putting WHS at the centre of operations tend to make the biggest gains.
For Kestrel, putting safety at the centre meant looking at the intersection of organisational culture, safety culture and operational culture. If every leader was also a safety leader, were they equipped with the right tools and capability to help shift the overall organisation culture?
The short answer for Kestrel was, not yet.
Together with the Kestrel team, we developed a 12-month leadership program, ‘Unleashed’, which is about to wrap with its first cohort.
Over nine modules, the program sought to uplift the capability of people leaders to build trust, motivate and influence crews of people working on the longwall. The ultimate goal was for leaders to be able to create an environment where it’s safe to speak up, raise issues, and collectively achieve better safety and performance outcomes.
And this is precisely what the program data is showing is now happening. Unleashed is generating a ripple effect across the business, as leaders step up to build psychologically safe work environments.
Jess Roberson and Marc Fickling told EM’s Nelly Wagner the program was starting to have a real impact. In particular, concepts like ‘Feed Forward’ and the peer-to-peer storytelling session on the ‘Pathys’, providing some standout connection for participants.
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