Peter Hayes, Head of Health Safety and Environment, AA Insurance
This session focuses on the steps we can take to make safety easier ultimately contributing to better and more sustainable outcomes for our workers and organisations.
We’ll explore some of the challenges we face in creating sustainable and meaningful safety outcomes, the risks in taking a one size fits all approach and not truly considering the context of the organisation, the maturity of stakeholders and their appetite for change. Hear about some experiences where making safety ‘hard’ and compliance focused has create a barrier for real safety improvement and how building influence amongst stakeholders by learning, listening, removing jargon and talking in ‘their language’ can promote better outcomes.
Key takeaways
- Understand the challenges we face in making safety easier and so of the factors that have contributed to current state
- Recognise the limitations of a one size fits all approach when leading improvement initiatives and transformations
- Opportunities to establish influence amongst stakeholders where they can relate, engage, believe and lead a more value and sustainable approach to keeping people safe
- Making it about the people, means everyone can win.
- The importance of balancing theory with the realities of working in the ‘real world’.
