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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
To return every worker back home safely.
Anything short of this is FAILURE
Our goal as safety professionals
References
Abiodun Kamil Gbolahan - 2013 Successful Construction HSE Planning and
Implementation: A practical Approach for Africa.
http://assevirtualclassroom.org/virtualclassroomseminars/wp-
content/uploads/2013/08/510_B_Session_No.510B_Successful_Constrcution
_HSE_Planning_and_Implem.pdf
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