Improving Safety Culture: What Safety Leaders Must BE, KNOW and DO
Last issue we looked at the ARE-KNOW-DO model of leadership (a.k.a. BE-KNOW-DO), which focuses on who you ARE as a leader, what you KNOW as…
Articles by Eric Svendsen
Building Your Leadership Presence for Leading Safety Culture
What’s your vision of a leader? If you were to complete the statement, “I believe a leader is …”, what would it say? And how…
Focus on People over Policy: Achieving Safety Excellence Through Better Safety Meetings
Here’s something you can be certain of. No one has ever been inspired to work safely or to follow safe work procedures simply because it’s…
Toolbox Meeting Effectiveness: Making It Stick
If I’m leading a safety meeting, a toolbox meeting, or a safety training, and I cite some facts and figures about a hazard, statistically you’ll…
“You want ME to lead the safety meeting?!” Turning Front-Line Employees into Safety Leaders
There’s a maxim that we mentioned in another article in this series that goes like this: “No one disagrees with their own ideas.” There we…