TRANSLATING VISION TO ACTION:

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ROLES OF SAFETY

PROFESSIONALS

Learning Outcomes

� Overview of SHE vision

� Incident Figures and SHE status in West Africa and Nigeria

� Safety vision and Action

� SHE Leadership : Safety Performance,

� Communicating SHE to Executive: Returns on Safety

� SHE Professional Will Power and best Practices

Vision is Good

We have vision yet there are still accidents in our

workplaces claiming millions of lives yearly.

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INCIDENT FIGURES

� Low level of Health and

Safety culture or awareness

among the Africa populace

impacts negatively on HSE

planning and its

implementation.

� Approximately 20% of the

Nigeria population working in

the oil and gas sector of the

economy are knowledgeable

in HSE probably similar in

other Africa nations ,

� Therefore changing the

culture across industry

sectors in Africa is

challenging.

Facts: HSE Status

Vision for HSE

Having vision is good:

� Vision gets you to your goal quickly

� Vision guides you to your goal

� Vision drives you to your goal

VISION alone will not make it happen. It may remain a

fantasy.

� Through vision, we

have regulations to

guide our operations

� Through vision, we

have coined several

safety slogans

� Through vision, we

have reduced

accident

� Through vision, we

have not been able to

STOP accident.

VISION & ACTION!!!

VISION & ACTION!!!

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VISION & ACTION: Leadership

Leadership

means –

The will to

persuasion

another

person or

group to

pursue

objectives or

vision.

VISION + ACTION: Leadership

�When you lead a safety

talk or a toolbox

session. You are in

front of others, sharing

an optimistic vision.

� Your competence drive

you to Action

� Competencies are skills that define success. So howdo you define the key competencies of safety leaders?

LEADERSHIP: SHE Performance

� Leadership is crucial to safety results,

� As Safety leaders we forms the culture that determines

what will and will not work in the organization’s safety

efforts.

� Leadership, through its actions, systems, measures and

rewards, clearly determines whether or not safety will be

achieved in the organization.

Lead by Example

Confidence & Authority

Empathy & Understanding

Openness & Clarity

Evaluate Perform

ance

Motivation & Commitment

Assets for Leadership For The SHE Professional

LEADERSHIP

FOR SHE PROFESSIONAL

SHE LEADERSHIP QUALITIES

SHE LEADERSHIP QUALITIES:

Confidence and Authority

� Instill respect & command authority

� Demonstrate knowledge & competence

� Exercise the power vested in your position

� Act confidently and decisively

� Admit mistakes

� Demonstrate respect for others

� Earn respect through your actions

� Lead by example

� Draw on knowledge and experience

� Remain calm in a crises/ emergency

CONFIDENCE AND AUTHORITY:

Executives Communication

“As HSE leaders understand the business value of

effective HSE in the context of our organizations is key ”

Communicating the return on safety in a language that

executives understand command authority and respect.

SAFETY RETURN ON INVESTMENT :

Executives Communication

Even if incident and injury rates are communicated at the executive and board level of

your company, EHS success still relies on executives’ understanding the rest of the EHS

variables that come into play.

More often than not, it’s not that workplace safety isn’t valued in your company, but

rather its importance is not understood or valued from the perspective of these other

business-blocks.

What gets measured, gets managed. - Peter Drucker

If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it. - Lord Kelvin

LEADERSHIP – Safety ROI

Return on Investment (ROI) – A method of comparing

business value of several initiatives. E.g.

- 1 initiative takes an investment of N50,000 and resulted

in N100,000 in savings per year for at least 3 years.

- This would be an ROI of 6x or 600% (N100,000 x 3 years

return ÷ N50,000 investment).

Base on the above the payback period would be 6month

because the N50,000 investment is recovered within half

of the first year, benefits, which N100,000 per year.

LEADERSHIP – Return on Safety

Base on the above our Safety ROI on this initiative, we

have a very high confidence level that EHS initiative is

justified for its business value

HSE Professional: Will Power

� Verdict: We simply lack WILLPOWER to make things

happen

� We are not ready to sacrifice our “daily bread” on the altar

of saving human lives

� We always want to be “the good guy” in our workplace

LACK OF OUR WILLPOWER HAS CONTINUED TO CAUSE

PAIN IN THE HEART OF MANY PEOPLE

Head or Tail ….?

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Words, not enough

Otis Redding

Video : Pain in my heart

To return every worker back home safely.

Anything short of this is FAILURE

Our goal as safety professionals

Take Home

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Implementation: A practical Approach for Africa.

http://assevirtualclassroom.org/virtualclassroomseminars/wp-

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Adrian Bartha - How to Demonstrate the Return on Safety to C-Level

Executives eCompliance.com www.ecompliance.com

Institute of Safety professional of Nigeria - ISPON Act 2014

Prichard R. Owner Safety Leadership, Arcanum Professional Services

Feburary, 2004 http://www.irmi.com/expert/articles/2004/prichard02.aspx

HSE Books 2004 Leadership for the major hazard industries: Effective health

and safety management Leaflet INDG277(rev1)

www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg277.htm