If you were honest, accidents are costing you more than just money. When your contractors and employees aren’t following your procedures or they don’t have their work permits in place, or they don’t follow their own risk assessments… where does that leave you? Usually both mentally and emotionally drained, right? It leaves you wondering why people just don’t follow your safety systems and be done with it. But guess what? That’s not really your problem. It’s a lack of buy-in.
Buy-in of your safety systems will emerge from finding common ground with your workforces values, then aligning your company’s vision with theirs. Not the other way around. Intrinsic motivation emerges when work crews are inspired to be safe. They don’t need outside motivation to do the right thing. But how do you get work crews to take total responsibility for their own safety and well-being, when they are compelled to bend the rules a little or take short cuts?
Unless you’ve seen Theo Venter speak or you’ve read the books he co-wrote called “Get Real” and “Convenience Kills”, you’re probably still struggling with accidents and injuries in your workplace. Or at least wondering why there’s no respite from one incident to the next. Perhaps you wish your workforce would take full ownership and personal responsibility for their work tasks.
But here’s the deal, if you want to create voluntary operational discipline and/or intrinsic motivation, you need to implement an easy to follow accountability model in the workplace, which frees you from the hassle of carrot and stick motivational tactics. Which don’t work. Well, not in the long term anyway.
Just Another Day is the only presentation in the world that teaches people what “Safety Feels Like”. Which means people learn to understand what it takes to be personally responsible for their own self preservation and well-being. How can there be any other way, right? If your work crews know what safety feels like, they have a much better chance of knowing what they are aiming for. Trying to use the fear of pain as safety motivation is often de-motivating. Showing your work crews what “Good” looks like will have a much better impact.
Just Another Day promotes a first of its kind deep emotional journey into what transforms a workplace’s safety culture. Through work crews understanding why they take risks and shortcuts in the first place. Theo discovered that “convenience” is your work crews worst enemy, and that taking the easiest path is hard wired in everyone. How can we avoid taking short cuts if it’s in our human nature? Values!!?
Total buy-in of your safety system means your workers values are aligned with that of the companies. Without your workforce’s connection to the company’s direction and vision, you won’t be able to create the engagement you need to maintain safety. Allow Theo to help you engage your workforce and get their buy-in. Theo will deliver your Key Safety Message in a powerfully emotional presentation that will appeal to their own sense of values. Guaranteeing that your workplace will view your safety systems with renewed respect and appreciation.