{"id":15509,"date":"2016-01-26T00:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T05:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlantictraining.com\/blog\/?p=15509"},"modified":"2016-01-26T00:58:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T05:58:38","slug":"prevention-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlantictraining.com\/blog\/prevention-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevention of Serious Injuries and Fatalities Must Start with Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"
Safety performance is a complex matter. That’s actually the good news: a great many variables mean you have a lot of options to address serious injuries and fatalities (SIF) and improve the health and wellbeing of the people with whom you work.<\/p>\n
You already know that changes in facilities, management systems, behavior, culture and leadership each impact safety outcomes. Safety excellence demands that you address all of them, yet we know we can’t do everything at once. To further complicate things, these factors are not discreet but intensely interrelated. So where to start? How to pick among them? What first move sets you up for success at every stage?<\/p>\n
The short answer is: Each of these possible avenues loops back to leadership. Sure, you can build safer facilities, but they won’t be maintained without a strong safety culture, just like you can improve your safety management systems, but who will use them if they don’t value them?<\/p>\n