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Leadership plays an instrumental role in cultivating a safety culture within an organization, laying the groundwork for effective Work Health and Safety (WHS) risk management. Leaders shape the safety culture by setting clear expectations, demonstrating safe behaviors, promoting open communication, providing regular training, investing in safety resources, and conducting routine safety audits. A safety culture means that everyone in the organization feels responsible for safety, leading to proactive risk management. Leadership must also integrate WHS risk management into all business processes, not treating it as a secondary aspect. This commitment promotes a holistic approach to safety, driving cultural change and fostering a more productive and safer work environment.
Training is important. We should all make it a priority. We should be teaching and not preaching as supervisors and managers and all of us can be agents of change in our own businesses.
Safety audits and inspections have been shown to reduce the number of accidents, which benefits business and their workers. It is better to be proactive with safety rather than waiting for an accident to happen.
A robust safety management system should represent a balance of the three approaches, as each by itself will yield poor safety results, used together they provide a potent tool to assure workplace safety.
A foundation of good risk management is good decision making. Many, if not all, accident investigations reveal safety failures due to poor decisions making around risk
We must recognise we are all prone to complacency, the next step is to recognise when you are on the path to complacency and re-establish mindfulness to the task at hand.
