Welcome to the second of six posts providing practical and actionable steps to improve the health and safety culture in your organization. This week we’re focusing on looking at what a positive health and safety culture actually looks like. These posts are sampled from our free eBook: Beyond Compliance: A Guide to Changing the Health and Safety Culture in Your … Read More
Why Has H&S Got a Bad Rap?
This post was motivated by a recent article in Safety & Health Practitioner by Andrew Sharman, titled Safety Isn’t Sexy. Andrew had recently returned from the IOSH annual conference where he found “an undercurrent of negativity around the phrase ‘health and safety’,” with several speakers acknowledging “the stigma surrounding our profession”. In the article, Andrew goes on to discuss the … Read More
How to Change the Health and Safety Culture in Your Organisation (Part 1 of 6)
This is the first of several posts on changing the health and safety culture in your organisation. We’ve previously discussed the impact of corporate governance on health and safety and the importance of board level leadership, now we want to help you to achieve this. It’s a daunting task for sure but, over the next several weeks and months, we … Read More