#Leadership
HSE leadership as the bedrock of a proactive safety culture. This section transforms the mindset of executives and line managers. Showcases how a personal example in using PPE, transparent communication, and zero tolerance create an atmosphere of trust.
Safety Starts With You: School of Lead Trainers
Creation and development of an internal industrial safety trainer academy from among company employees. Trainers undergo external certification, are assigned to specific production units, and train personnel from workers to top managers, as well as contractor employees.
Internship: Preparing for Public Speaking. Or: How a Novice Manager Can Learn to Synthesize Information
Preparing a report on the results of an internship helps a future manager master key managerial skills, including communication, synthesizing information, and building an action strategy. In the process of work, trainees learn to independently assess risks, analyze the effectiveness of injury prevention measures, and formulate recommendations for improvements. It is the final public presentation of the report to management that turns out to be the most difficult stage for novice managers.
Safety Walkarounds: What a Novice Manager Needs to Know About Precursors and Leadership
The article describes a workplace internship system for young managers in the position of head of the occupational health and safety department, a key part of which is practical walk-throughs of various facilities. Such walk-throughs involving experienced inspectors and top executives help novice specialists notice early signs of violations, see positive practices, and build a friendly dialogue with staff. This practice helps to move away from formalism in occupational health and safety and lear...
Fast and Effective Internship: What a Novice Manager Needs to Know
The article describes an internship system for novice managers in the position of head of the occupational health and safety department to develop personnel management skills and ensure safety. The material describes the preparation procedure — from practical site inspections and risk assessments to the final report — and also presents feedback from program participants. The author explains how such training helps young leaders consciously build a safety culture and improve communication with su...
From Local Function to Business Partnership: What Competencies Should an HSE Employee Develop?
Transforming the HSE specialist's role from controller to business partner. Developing new competencies (empathy, critical thinking, Lean, stakeholder management) to integrate safety into business processes.
Safety Cycle: A Cumulative Tool for Achieving "Target Zero"
The "Safety Cycle" tool is a visual clock-face board for regular spaced repetition of information about past incidents and top risks of a unit. Every week, the focus shifts to a new incident, which is addressed through informing, monitoring corrective actions, and visual reconstruction (shock content), while the management of the tool is transferred to line managers.
Top 10 Safety Barriers: Joint Solution Generation Session
An interactive joint solution generation session to identify and systematize key barriers hindering HSE integration into real business processes. Participants identified the top 10 problems, including conflict of interest, formalism, and lack of leadership and competencies, for subsequent detailed elaboration.
Optimizing HSE and Industrial Safety Personnel in the New Economic Reality
In conditions of staff shortages and economic challenges, occupational health and safety and industrial safety become a mechanism for ensuring the operational resilience of business. The article examines an approach to optimizing the occupational health, safety and industrial safety system through the reassessment of functions, the elimination of excessive paperwork, and the competent integration of digital technologies. The material shows how a systemic restructuring of processes, the developme...
Environmental Risk Management
Transformation of the environmental risk management system at a large metallurgical enterprise, transitioning from reactive violation recording to proactive analysis. The practice involves engaging the production unit by translating environmental deviations into technological and financial risks, and changing the ecologist's role from controller to internal analyst.
Can the nuclear industry's safety culture be integrated into other fields? The answer is YES!
Separating safety culture into an independent enterprise management element based on nuclear industry experience. Implementing a three-level development system (political, management, individual) and creating an institution of independent safety culture representatives.
Increasing Efficiency While Reducing Risks
Optimizing production processes at the intersection of customer and partner interactions to simultaneously improve economic efficiency and safety. Implementing a digital drilling management platform from physical to business processes, alongside unconventional engineering and logistical solutions (sliders, equipment weight distribution).
HSE Strategy and Production Strategy: Points of Intersection
Integrating HSE strategy into production processes by including safety metrics in managing directors' KPIs, applying incident investigation methodology to analyze equipment downtime, and implementing the right to stop unsafe work. The practice also includes scaling safety standards to contractors by integrating them into the corporate risk management system.