Creating an effective culture of safety.

3 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Bill Gallagher. This content was uploaded by Bill Gallagher. This is a YouTube video titled "Creating an effective culture of safety." The excerpt (recorded 2024-02-03) is a single-speaker segment in which the speaker (labelled SPEAKER A) discusses leadership's role in establishing and sustaining a safety culture. The speaker emphasizes that safety norms depend on owners and leaders modeling and enforcing behavior (e.g., requiring safety glasses), and that cultural change only happens when leadership visibly values safety so expectations persist even when safety personnel are absent.

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And when the owner was out there, you know, just BSing with the guys or they were. And so that level of expectation, if it's down here, it was always going to stick at down here and safety was only going to be relevant when the safety people are around. But then as soon as we drive off or we leave, it's always just going to go back to what level the owner was going to care about. And so that actually and I communicated that that with, with the owner, like, hey, we it starts with you starts with leadership. It starts with ownership. And when you actually value this, when you actually enforce it, when safety isn't around, when they see when all the guys who highly respect and idolize you, when you're the one saying, hey, no, no, no, no, wear your safety glasses, that's not how we operate, that you're going to see cultural change as well.