Why the way we talk about safety in an organisation matters.
Does getting home at the end of the work day mean that we were safe that day?
Here’s my 7 ½ minutes on why the way we talk about safety at work matters so much.
Dave Whitefield
Director at People and Risk
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After 20 years in safety and training, I now focus primarily on the human side of safety. I help clients tackle their wicked problems through seeking to understand how people organise in response to uncertainty, and how they make sense of risk.
I do this through consulting, coaching, training and workshop design and delivery, MC'ing events and conferences, and delivery of keynote presentations.
Nice reminder
Zero Harm – going home uninjured! a bit of a lottery isn’t it, one day your number might come up because of our attraction to risk and its rewards.
Zero is such a dangerous delusion. Whenever you see celebration of a very long period without LTI then you just know that disaster is imminent……..
Will definitely use this discussion with the teams as a lot of new staff in the last 2 months to get their insights into what safety means to them