#Safety culture
Development of a proactive safety culture in production: mindful leadership, motivation programs, contractor engagement, and addressing the human factor. Transitioning from reactive oversight to integrated risk management practices.
Finding an Individual Approach: Communication as a Pillar of Safety Culture
The article discusses how an occupational health and safety (HSE) specialist can find individual keys to communication with colleagues at various levels to solve work tasks. The author shares personal experience of taking nuances into account—from temperament and hobbies to the context of communication—and explains why it is important to maintain professional distance within the team. Building a strong and authoritative position as an HSE manager helps achieve set goals and company plans faster.
Internship. Part 4. Preparing the Report. Or: How to Learn to Be Objective and Persuasive
The article describes the final stage of the internship for future managers, who are to deliver a report on the state of occupational health and safety to management and colleagues. The material outlines an approach to report preparation that helps objectively evaluate a department's performance based on qualitative and quantitative indicators, risks, and positive practices. The experience of public defense before a wide audience helps trainees overcome public speaking anxiety, learn to express...
From Novice to Leader: A Successful Internship Story
Implementation of a mandatory five-stage internship for new managers at the workplace of the Head of the HSE Department. The program includes theoretical training, practical walkarounds to identify violation precursors, leadership walkarounds with top management, and public defense of results.
The Wasteland
The author's personal story connects a 1989 childhood memory of his uncle's death on the railway with his appointment to the position of an occupational health and safety specialist years later. Having studied the archival investigation materials, he learned the real circumstances of the tragedy — the foreman's haste, the lack of lighting, and a dead walkie-talkie during unloading. The publication clearly demonstrates what severe consequences result from neglecting workplace safety rules.
The Brain Loves Stories, Not Instructions: Turning Dry Safety Rules into Living Knowledge
Dry cardinal rules of occupational health and safety are often perceived as formal bureaucracy and are quickly forgotten, since the human brain absorbs meaning and emotions, not dry instructions. The article examines the approach of specialists at Bystra, who suggest explaining safety through life stories, empathy, and real examples. Such a presentation engages the emotional centers of the brain and helps workers perceive the rules as personal protection and a guarantee of safety.
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.
Why "No!" Doesn't Save: A Scientific Look at the Effectiveness of Prohibitory Signs
The article examines the differences between prohibition and mandatory signs in industrial safety from the perspective of the psychology and physiology of perception. The author explains why strict prohibitions can provoke psychological resistance among workers, while mandatory signs reduce cognitive load and shape safe behavior. The material helps to understand how a proper combination of both approaches allows building an effective occupational health and safety system at an enterprise.
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...
Safety Without Illusions - How to Avoid Cargo Cult When Implementing Practices
Diagnosing and transforming formal safety procedures into truly working mechanisms. Separating the concepts of conscious sabotage (formalism) and blind copying of practices (cargo cult) to apply different management decisions, including the personal example of leaders and teaching the mechanics of the result.
The Impact of Training on Personnel Performance
The article examines the impact of stress on erroneous decision-making by workers in emergency situations and the role of the human factor in industrial accidents. The author analyzes the mechanisms of brain function at critical moments and relies on research data confirming that regular practical training reduces stress levels and increases the psychological resilience of personnel. The material shows the importance of moving from formal inspections to workplace skill development using the exam...