Safety Culture and Coaching Climate - Part 2

In Part 1 we have outlined the difference between Safety culture and safety climate. We concluded that to develop the ultimate desired culture. We will need to start by developing an engaging safety climate where coaching becomes a communication style among work teams.?

If leaders and individuals exhibit coaching as a style of communication, this will improve the safety climate. Individuals follow the rules because they want to, and Zero Incidents becomes a choice, not a goal or a company target.??

The target is to generate more visible leaders in safety. Over time, it will cause people to reassess their deep beliefs and values about safety and positively affect the safety culture. Through the actions of safety leaders, we can create a positive safety culture, resulting in better safety performance, which will help keep our employees safe at work.

But now remains the most difficult question, how can we transform leaders into visible leaders in safety??

?An employee can be a hard-working individual, he can have the required skill and knowledge, but all of that won't be enough to develop a coaching behavior that can make people buys-in to safety.?

The secret is the attitude. Adapting a coach-like attitude is the secret factor that will get our leaders starting their transformation journey.?

Imagine what a typical leader does if he observes an unsafe act/condition at the site.

Yes, exactly. Does he start to see the reason why the person was conducting this violation?. He is looking for the problem! And a typical question that will be raised in similar situations will mostly start with WHY?

This leader focused on the violator's behavior and practice, and his question with Why is steering the mind toward blame and pushing the violator to find excuses out of fears.

He was coaching the problem, not the person ........in part 3,we shall continue discovering how to use a coaching attitude to transform leaders into visible leaders in safety...... stay tuned :)