One of the most common mistakes made in meetings that focus on operations, production and maintenance is to treat safety as an add-on to the meeting rather than including safety operations in that meeting. Usually this means there’s time allotted for a “safety moment” some time during the meeting to talk about safety issues.
Eric Svendsen, Ph.D., is Principal and lead change agent for safetyBUILT-IN, a safety-leadership learning and development organization. He has over 20 years experience in creating and executing outcomes-based leadership development and culture change initiatives aligned to organizational goals, and he personally led the safety-culture initiatives of a number of client organizations that resulted in “best ever safety performance” years for those companies.