Hampton Tedder Electric’s Leader Safety Culture Training is a required training for all team members. The training is monitored to ensure expectations are met and our safety culture becomes a steadfast pillar of our continued safety success.
The topics covered in the training will include, but not be limited to:
– Role of a leader
– Personal safety ownership
– Personal cognitive techniques to asses and manage risk
– Techniques to improve communication
– The importance of speaking up and responsibility of calling ALL-STOP
– Understanding the sphere of influence and control
– Learning over blame
– Leadership tools to align attitudes, behaviors, and results
The Leader Safety Culture Training is intended to provide an understanding of the elements, responsibilities and commitment of being a leader, and promoting our safety culture. Being aware of our actions, messaging, and responsibilities to coach and constantly reinforce safety and influence a positive safety culture. Company-wide alignment and understanding of our mission, safety goals, and pursuit to work injury free, ensures that our message is consistent throughout all work groups.
Role of a Leader
A leader’s role is to lead in a clear and compelling direction. This can be done through techniques which leverage leader influence in order to positively impact their team’s dynamics.
Use these leadership tools to maintain a safe work culture:
– Look out for one another
– Always do the right thing, even when no one is looking
– Be involved, be visible
– Coach and reinforce safety
– Be a Safety Culture Leader
Personal Safety Ownership: Why do we work safely?
The motivation for working safely should come from personal wellbeing and family. Our goal is to work safe while providing for our own well-being and the security of our families and loved ones. We can all accomplish this by aligning our individual attitude towards a positive safety culture.
Personal cognitive techniques to assess and manage risk, Ask yourself:
– Is high energy present?
– Could a high energy incident occur?
– Could a serious injury be sustained?
– Are there direct controls present?
Stop, Think, Work, Perform.
Daily Tailboards and Joint-Tailboards:
– Improve communication with your crew, with crews working alongside your crew, with subcontractor crews. Helps in tracking attendance of who is at the jobsite in case of an emergency.
Safety meetings
– Discuss important safety topics and observation findings to communicate with all employees
– Opportunity for discussion and feedback.
Safety trainings
– Train on required topics and identified areas for improvement based on observation findings to communicate safe work practices.
Safety observations
– Observing company and individual safety culture in action to communicate safety findings in real-time.
The importance of Speaking up and Responsibility of calling an All-Stop:
– Take action when necessary.
– Everyone has the responsibility of calling an ALL-STOP.
– Your actions could prevent a serious injury or incident.
– Ensure team is focused and engaged during tailboard and throughout the completion of their assigned tasks.
Understand your sphere of influence:
– Your actions can influence good or bad behavior
– As a leader, it is your responsibility to advocate for the Safety of your team, yourself, and others.
– You must lead by example and consistently demonstrate your dedication to maintaining a safe work environment.
– Remember, your attitude towards Safety is contagious. Spread a positive attitude towards Safety.
Learning Over Blame
Commonly when an issue or incident arises, people tend to “point the finger”. Although it is vital to investigate why incidents have occurred and the role that human performance played, blaming an individual will not ensure that others will not recreate the issue or incident moving forward.
Learning
– Our objective as leaders is to learn why there is an issue, so that we can prevent the issue from becoming a larger issue, and prevent issues from occurring in the future.
Leadership Tools:
– Attitudes
– Behaviors
– Results
– Safety observations
– Safety recognition
– Walking the talk
– Coaching
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