#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.
Resistance to Influence: A Psychological Phenomenon
The article by safety culture trainer Roman Portnyagin is dedicated to the phenomenon of psychological reactance, due to which employees may reject even logical arguments during a behavioral safety audit. The material explains why people experience internal protest when they feel a threat to their freedom of choice during attempts to influence them. The author examines psychological principles of communication that allow reducing the employee's defensive reactions and making the dialogue about s...
Interview with Safety Leaders: Vladimir Varlamov
Systemic transformation of safety culture at large industrial enterprises through top management engagement, implementation of a cascade of safety committees, and manager work standards. Practices include using the "safety dialogue" tool, reducing the number of contractors to lower injury rates, and adapting approaches under limited funding.
DRA Tool: A Skill or a Long Process?
Roman Portnyagin, a safety culture trainer at Norilsk Nickel, breaks down the "Dynamic Risk Assessment" (DRA) tool and explains why industrial safety should not be perceived as a process that interferes with work. Using the example of everyday hazard assessment when crossing the road, the author shows how continuous practice turns risk management from rules into an automatic skill. The article reveals which training, incentive, and recognition tools help motivate employees to apply "DRA" for the...
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Roundtable "Proactive Safety Indicators: What Really Works and What Becomes a Fiction?"
Implementation of proactive safety indicators to transition from reactive to preventive management. Decomposition of strategic goals (zero injuries) to the line manager level through metrics such as the number of observations conducted, violations identified, and improvements implemented.
How to Support the System Under Multiple Changes
A comprehensive strategy for restoring and stabilizing the HSE management system amid staff shortages and structural changes. Includes updating risk assessments, implementing Management of Change procedures, crisis committee operations, revising financial motivation and competency matrices, and regular employee pulse surveys.
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Benchmarking Session: "How to Engage in Safety: From Top Management to Workers"
Creating an institution of informal safety culture leaders (representatives and ambassadors) without supervisory functions. Implementing personal projects for top managers and engaging production managers through participatory development of HSE measures.
Open Dialogue with Ekaterina Rogova: How to Reduce Severe Injuries by 70% in 2 Years
Systemic transformation of HSE approaches, including practice-oriented training for line managers, risk management systems, and department ratings. Rejecting the 'human factor' concept to find root causes and create convenient conditions for safe work.
Direct Line with HSE Leaders: Alexander Pivikov
A comprehensive approach to transforming corporate safety culture by engaging top management in regular audits (gemba), digitizing key HSE processes (audits, investigations, electronic permits-to-work), and replacing fines with positive motivation tools and pass blocking. Allocating specialized departments for safety culture development separates compliance tasks from cultural initiatives.
Safety Architect: How an HSE Expert Can Create a Training Game in a Week Using AI
Traditional training methods in occupational health and safety do not reveal specialists' "blind spots" that manifest during decision-making under stress. The article examines an approach to creating an industrial reality simulator that allows practicing practical skills without risk to life and health. The author uses an example to show how an expert in occupational health, safety, and industrial safety can reduce the development cycle of an educational game from six months to one week with the...
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.
Environmental Safety Culture as a Powerful Driver for Improving Waste Management and Conscious Environmental Safety
Integrating environmental safety culture principles into the production waste management system. Implementing environmental requirements in procurement documentation, mandatory development of Work Execution Plans (WEP) by contractors with waste generation schedules, and using visual waste management diagrams at workplaces.
Living Safety Culture: From Instructions to Communications
Implementation of internal functional coaching and communication practices to develop a safety culture. The approach includes training line managers in live incident reporting (storytelling, dialogue, rituals) and improving the effectiveness of safety tools (DRA, BSA) through open dialogue with employees.