What is Leadership?
Aubrey Daniels says it well: "It's as simple as this: safety starts with leadership. While incidents typically happen at the frontline, it is leaders who establish the physical and cultural setting within which the frontline works." (Aubrey Daniels International)
You don't have to be a superhero to be a great leader.
Management provides the vision and resources needed to implement an effective safety and health program. Safety leadership means that business owners, managers, and supervisors:
- Consider worker safety and health as a core organizational value, not just a priority.
- Provide sufficient resources and support to implement and maintain the safety and health program.
- Visibly demonstrate and communicate their safety and health commitment to workers and others.
- Continuously improve the safety management system to protect workers, eliminate or control hazards, and foster a robust safety culture.
- Set an example through their own actions.
In this module, we delve deeper into leadership concepts and principles. The following modules will explore the various ways safety leadership is manifested through actions. We refer to this as "doing safety".
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
1-1. Effective safety leaders see and make safety a _____.
You forgot to answer the question!