Safety Leadership - How Supervisors Can Deal With Workers Who Refuse to Take Personal Responsibility for Safety

When safety leadership fails, workers get injured or killed. The question safety directors need to ask is “Why does safety leadership so often fail – and what can I do to turn my supervisors into true safety leaders?”

For many, safety leadership isn't a ‘gift’ — it's a learned skill. Supervisors must be taught not just the rules of safety, but the rules of leadership.

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Give your supervisors the safety leadership skills they need... in the fast, easy format they want

Despite your best efforts, some workers simply refuse to take personal responsibility for their own safety. No matter how many times you tell them, no matter how much training you offer, they just don’t get it. You know the types... the employee who always knows a better way to get the job done... or the one who doesn't need PPE because he's “careful...” or the one who believes that getting the job done fast is the one and only priority.

The question for safety leaders is, how do you deal with workers like this? What can you do to get them to see the light?

This 60-minute Ready, Set, Go! program will answer the many critical questions surrounding this challenging safety leadership issue, including: What motivates some workers to ignore safety? What strategies can you employ to win over risky workers? How can you tell if risky behavior is caused by lack of knowledge or if it’s a mechanism for expressing defiance? Are there labor/management issues driving the behavior?

You'll also learn how to:

Unearth the real reasons employees ignore safety
Identify the perceptions that often lead to risky behavior
Develop methods to minimize risky behaviors
Prevent negative safety attitudes from spreading
Identify methods of motivation that can backfire
Discipline effectively when nothing else works
Shape workers' perceptions of safety's importance through better leadership

By understanding the employee’s perspective, you’ll be able to develop concrete safety leadership methods to overcome this frustrating challenge.

The presenter: William “Bob” Coffey, principal of WRC Safety and Risk Consultants (click for bio)