You Need Everyone’s Commitment

The truth in most organisations is that there is a disconnect between management’s safety message and the reality of operator behaviour on the ground. In many cases, Health and Safety has been reduced to compliance and paper-based exercises driven by legislation with minimal management proximity, staff engagement and local prioritisation. This is a stunningly common problem, and most solutions remain reactive, lagging and certainly not world-class in its thinking. SeaChange solutions are designed to close this gap and help to build a sustainable safety culture from the ground up.

While most organisations have good intentions when it comes to Health and Safety, many fail to deliver due to a lack of simple, practical communication, resulting in poor local ownership and personal accountability. As such, a major challenge faced by safety professionals and corporate leaders today is to build a workplace culture that facilitates self-accountability for safety. Safety management should move from ensuring that ‘as few things as possible go wrong’ to ensuring that ‘as many things as possible go right’. SeaChange solutions are people-centred, interactive, practical, and based on leading safety culture indicators (e.g. KBIs) rather than lagging safety indicators, such as recording accidents after the fact.

Let’s face it, Health and Safety is not generally perceived as sexy or exciting, but it is rendered even more dull and autocratic by the manner in which it is typically communicated by organisations. This traditional and non-personal safety message adopted by most organisations leads to negative groupthink and a resistant ‘us versus them’ culture amongst the workforce. The SeaChange philosophy is to connect your safety message with your workforce in a meaningful way to ensure a sustainable safety culture is allowed to breathe and develop naturally, where people both trust the safety message and feel valued in its delivery.

Without an understanding of people and behaviour, it is virtually impossible to accurately measure your existing safety culture. But like any business function initiative, organisations must assess where they are now in order to identify gaps and make improvements. The SeaChange Safety Culture Footprint© is an accurate analysis that provides deep insight into your existing safety culture and allows you to measure the impact of your safety initiatives. This innovative service also highlights the cultural gaps that need attention and roadmaps the priorities to make real and sustainable change in your safety culture.

Unfortunately, evidence reveals that many behaviour based safety approaches fail to sustain safety culture over time. While, in a theoretical sense, many such approaches do help to explain what behaviour based safety is and how it should ideally work, they do not make it any easier for organisations to actually implement behaviour based safety programmes effectively. This is where SeaChange are uniquely different: our expert team don’t just help you understand what to do, we support you with How To Do It through our proprietary services and solutions.