Safety Bubble Campaign

Create Your SafetyBubble

‘Safety Bubble’ Programme

Our aim is to engage and enthuse your employees, so that they actively want to create a safer working environment while operating at maximum efficiency.

By ‘Safety Bubble’ we mean that you have a self-supervising workforce that sees the benefits of working safely as they can understand the benefits to themselves. Many Safety Bubbles joining together forms one big protective bubble that protects people, plant and the company as a whole.

We specifically focus on delivering coaching and training.

• Coaching - delivered to all senior management teams. This is designed to ensure that there is clear, accurate and realistic communication with the rest of the company.

• Training

• Front Line Supervisor (Think middle management who go on site as well as foreman and similar grade supervisors)

• Operatives (Anyone who is below Front Line Supervisor grade)

When you set out your objectives, targets, and intentions, ask yourself this one question...

‘Do we support the employee in every realistic way possible so that they stand the best chance of achieving our safety goals?’

And that’s where most organisations fail. They offer grand targets but don’t always give the employees the correct support needed to achieve those goals.

This is where this programme succeeds. By working with your company, we give the employees all the skills and support they need to achieve your objectives.

By offering a structured cultural improvement package employees’ behaviour towards safety improves as they understand what it is they are actually aiming for.

All our programmes are designed to up skill the employees in a way that they can actually implement the skills that are being taught. The way we deliver this programme reflects this.

The training is not designed as a ‘learn and dump’ package. There should be ample planned time between each course for the employees to practise the skills that have been coached and recognise them as second nature, before the next course starts.

This way, by the time we complete the package and go into the measuring phase, your employees will have had all the support that they need in order to achieve your company’s objectives.

Included in this information pack are overviews of all the programmes that we run within the package.

Stages of Implementation.

The outlined process below is usually completed within one month from the first meeting.

Initial meeting. The meeting is conducted so that we can fully understand the management’s objectives, their perception of the current culture within the business and to ensure that management will give their full support to the initiative to ensure success.

Development and understanding. This is a two day programme where we speak to all levels of employees, from senior management to operatives. The 2 day programme is split into various sessions and includes the following;

• Management Behavioural Safety Work shop (Two hours). This critical phase has been designed to ensure that the management are aligned correctly in relation to behavioural safety. It’s a highly interactive and honest look at where the business is now, and what we need to in order to take it to where the management want it to be. All decision makers must be present at this meeting.

• On site visits. This is where we talk to employees out on site and gain access to selected focus groups from different employment levels within the business. This is to gain an insight into how the company operates from the perspective of front line employees. We also conduct live site ‘walkarounds’ to engage, one on one, with employees to get their own honest anonymous appraisal of their own thoughts on company performance. Past experience has proven this to be a great catalyst for generating positive ideas on how the company can improve in relation to productivity and safety.

Feedback and recommendations. We would present the data from our on site visit. It is an excellent opportunity to highlight employee’s perspective to the management as well as to consolidate all information from the previous engagements with the company. We would then look at what option both the management and Azea think would be more suitable and effective to achieve the company’s objectives. There are four options to choose from. Options 1-3 are structured programmes. The 4th option is where we can mix and match due to the first three options being unsuitable for specific reasons. While this 4th Option is available, nearly all clients choose one of the first three.

1 2 3 4

Phase 1. One day roll out course delivery to all

employees within the business.

This course engages with the employees so that they can recognise why it is in their benefit that as well as focusing on production, they can also ensure safety by acting correctly as a team.

The roll out workshop looks at factors including

• Why the team is more effective than the individual

• How working safely can increase production

• How you can ensure people understand what you are saying

• How the brain effects our emotions and behaviours

Phase 2. Basic Safety Coach

Suitable supervisory level employees would then be trained and qualified to be a Safety Coach. They would need to attend a three day training course covering the following subjects

1. Inspire & Engage

2. Emotional Control

3. Ensuring Understanding

Once they have qualified (they would also receive IOSH certification for passing the course) they could then be utilised by the company to further enhance positive behaviour out on site by leading by example and coaching others.

Phase 3. Delivery

This is where we would deliver the ‘Safety Bubble’ campaign alongside the ‘Ask me’ initiative. This initiative is designed to promote safety through positivity and enthusiasm rather than fear, threats or aggression. This campaign utilises reward and recognition in order to further prove that the company really do hold safety in the highest accord. This measurement phase should be carried out for a period of no shorter than 6 months to allow all messages to be imbedded correctly.

Option 1.

ALL OPTIONS CAN BE TAILORED TO MEET YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS.

Roll Out Workshop

Front Line SupervisorsBasic Safety Coach

Deliver

• Inspire & Engage

• Emotional Control

• Ensuring Understanding

This is as option 1 but with more training being made available for operatives.

While the supervisors are being trained up to qualify as Safety Coaches, the operatives receive training in the following areas to qualify them as ‘Safety Champions’ (also accredited through IOSH).

• Hazard perception and reactions

• Communicating Ideas

• Behaviour Awareness

This three day package is designed to ensure that whilst the supervisors are being trained as Safety Coaches, the operatives are being trained in how to be effective and safe team members. By training both levels, you have more chance of success as you are creating a more positive environment with more understanding of what you are trying to achieve and why its beneficial to them.

Option 2.


Roll Out Workshop

Front Line SupervisorsBasic Safety Coach Operatives

• Hazard Perceptions



• Inspire & Engage

• Emotional Control

• Ensuring Understanding

Deliver

This option is as option 2, but with more training options built in.

The front line supervisor has more training in addition to the core Safety Coach units. Ideally, the training should be delivered a unit per month, so they have time to practise what has been taught before completing the next unit. This ensures a natural organic growth of the employees skills.

The operatives would also receive a two day ‘Future Leader’ package. This package has been developed due to feedback from employees that they feel that promotion is a major issue. Most employees would prefer a ‘fair’ system where who-ever is most skilled for the job gets promoted, rather than if someone gets promoted due to relations within the com-pany, who they know etc. By creating a ‘fair’ system, employees are further enthused to achieve safety as they know they have as much chance as anyone else to progress with their career, enhancing staff retention. This also allows the company to recognise who could potentially be a supervisor or manager of the future.

Option 3.This option is for clients who want to implement a full behavioural programme.

Roll Out Workshop

Front Line Supervisors Operatives

• The “Gravity” Package

• Future Leaders

• Hazard Perceptions



Deliver

• Personal Awareness• Inspire & Engage

• Emotional Control• Selling Safe-T

• Ensuring Understanding•Energise & Develop• Creating Fairness


Create your ownsafety bubble and protect youremployees, plant and members of the public.

Call 01665 714 000to create your own bubble now!

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Safety Bubble Campaign