Often leadership teams, take other or personal values and seek to inject them into the organisaton and some surface them and adjust. Consideration of needs is another aspect of forming an organisation on a sustainability journey and can form part…
Floods risk in Solar Construction In Australia, wet weather events can be intense, frequent and varied which poses multiple risks for Solar Installers. It is fundamental to safety that these risks are identified and managed by employers and workers on…
25 Signs You Have An Awesome Safety Culture
According to OSHA, “Safety cultures consist of shared beliefs, practices, and attitudes that exist at an establishment. Culture is the atmosphere created by those beliefs, attitudes, etc., which shape our behavior.”
By definition, safety culture is difficult to measure. How do you measure values, attitudes and beliefs?
1. There is visible leadership commitment at all levels of the organization.
Leadership commitment (or lack thereof) to safety will always show. What your organization’s leaders value is typically what gets done. In great safety cultures, leadership proves their commitment to safety through their actions and how they empower others throughout the organization to win with their safety initiatives.
For Safety Communication Campaigns to impact
There are three key things of a campaign that HAVE to occur:
1. Seen & heard
2. Understood
3. Acted upon
Auditing in the Solar industry, some thoughts. . . .
When I hear of safety culture, what I means to me as the Author is:
1. The way we do things around here in relation to the attitude, perception, behaviors and actions & control that either make us & the team safer or not.
2. It also reflects the level of relationships, communications, mindset and heart set.
3. It’s what we do in relation to Safety when no-one is watching and, when someone is watching.
4. It is an energy or state that has the above aspects, that can be measured, but is the combination of a number of things above, a bit, like the sound of a band when all the band is together playing. The ‘song’ sounds good or needs some work.
Is the heat getting to your business and do you know it? How intelligent are your weather modelling and monitoring and does it protect your staff?
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How a Sustainability Professional Can Add Value To Your Business
It's a common consideration that business value solely revolves around physical assets. However, business value weighs heavily upon anything that determines the health of the business for the long term, including intangible assets such as health, safety, environment, Performance and certification that ensures adherence to these areas. These intangible assets can lower impact, costs and create a workplace of more engaged employees who are returning home to their families each day. Considering this, it makes sense to dedicate time and resources to maintaining Environment and OHS certification in Australia.
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Being resilient is about having the ability to recover after disturbances or significant, unpredictable changes in the local environment, such as those caused by a fire, flood, blizzard, or injury.
Diversity, redundancy, decentralization, self-renewal, and self-repair can all enable resiliency in nature and the ability to maintain function despite a disturbance. We can learn so much.
If humanity depended on your risk controls - would you get it right?
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