Module 1: Foundations of H&S Leadership
This is how leaders demonstrate commitment to safety and promote a safety culture.
What is H&S Leadership?
A product of shared values, beliefs, attitudes, perceptions, competencies and patterns of behaviour related to safety.
What is safety culture?
Plan, Do, Check, Act
What are the steps of the PDCA cycle?
The way a person’s brain captures and interprets information sent to it by their senses.
What is Risk Perception?
Moral, business and legal
What are the three groups of reasons for H&S?
Pathological, reactive, calculative, proactive, generative
What are the steps in the Safety Culture Maturity Ladder?
Criteria that measure improvement to prevent incidents
What are leading indicators?
Poor lighting, shadows, obstructed lines of sight or blind spots that prevent the brain from receiving information
What are Vision Barriers
To Know, To Participate, and To Refuse unsafe work.
What are the three fundamental employee rights in Health and Safety?
What leaders say, do, measure, and prioritize shapes how others think about safety.
What is the Leadership Shadow?
An accurate understanding of H&S performance management requires both of these.
What are lagging and leading indicators?
Individual, Job & Work Environment and Organizational?
A way of thinking or feeling about something (positive, negative, or neutral), which can affect how a person behaves.
What is an Attitude?
When a leader’s actions and attitudes influence others’ behaviour, those influences spread throughout the team and the organization, like a pebble dropped in water.
What is the Ripple effect of leadership?
A way of understanding complex situations by looking at how different parts of a system interact and influence each other.
What is System Thinking?
The senses capture the information, but the brain filters, ignores, or misinterprets it.
What is Perceptual Selectivity?
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Adjourning.
Stages of maturity in teams?
This social behaviour occurs when workers copy unsafe practices because “everyone else does it,” rather than following procedures.
What is group conformity?
When a team asks, “Which PDCA step did we skip or rush?”, they’re applying this key principle of health and safety management systems.
What is continual improvement?
When unsafe practices gradually become accepted as normal.
What is risk normalization?