#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.
Practical Experience in Implementing Safety Contacts
The article describes the experience of implementing "Safety Contacts" at GC "RUST" — brief 5–7-minute messages to prevent risks and incidents. The author reveals the goals of the initiative, the format of regular meetings, and the development of the practice from materials of the occupational health and safety service to the personal participation of managers and employees. The publication explains how ongoing dialogue and the analysis of real situations help engage the team in discussing safet...
Integrating the Trust Equation into Building a Safety Culture
The author shares personal experience of applying the trust formula in daily work on occupational health and safety and building a culture of safe behavior at GC ROUST. The article examines the relationship between the four elements of the formula — credibility, reliability, intimacy, and self-orientation — necessary to gain support when implementing changes. The material explains how to build a high level of trust in the team and why it is important to comply with declared norms not only during...
Developing a Safety Culture in Manufacturing: Fostering Worker Awareness
A comprehensive approach to developing a safety culture on the production floor through a combination of tangible and intangible motivation, engaging personnel in risk identification, and conducting multi-level audits. The practice includes using remote inspections, anonymous feedback channels, and regular social dialogue between management and workers.
Example of an HSE Management System Training Module
A methodology for teaching the basics of the HSE management system and risk assessment by transferring industrial processes to understandable everyday situations. Baking a pie is used as an example to analyze hazard identification, risk assessment, development of control measures, and a systematic approach to incident investigation.
Operational Production Risk Management – The Evolution of Safety Mentoring
Implementation of a mentoring program for Operational Production Risk Management (OPRM) in the workplace. Mentors without punitive functions spend 4 to 6 days with crews, helping work supervisors and contractors apply safety tools in practice and developing their leadership competencies.
Safety is Everyone's Personal Business. Practice of Creating Safety Culture Communities
Creating and developing safety culture communities to transition from formal rule compliance to conscious safety. Practices include various work formats: informal meetings, joint initiatives, quality circles, and creative events aimed at engaging personnel and forming sustainable safe behavior habits.
Implementation of Proactive HSE Indicators
Development and implementation of a multi-component proactive safety indicator (injury severity prevention) to replace the reactive LTIFR. The indicator includes assessing improvement suggestions, safety culture engagement, recording micro-injuries and unsafe acts, and managing operational risks.
Managing Lies
Transition from reactive safety indicators to proactive metrics by excluding occupational injuries from managers' KPIs. Implementation of an integral Safety System Development Index that accounts for domestic injuries, audit quality, and near-miss registration, using an in-house IT solution.
Safety Culture: Increasing Awareness and Engagement Through Digitalization
Transitioning from a punitive system to a proactive safety culture by changing KPIs and engaging staff. Implementing the '10 Life Risk' program focusing on critical hazards and using accessible digital platforms (WhatsApp) to communicate with employees without corporate email.
Process Transformation in Occupational Safety
Transformation of the HSE function in a large mining and metallurgical company by separating it into an independent vertical and shifting from a reactive model to a risk-oriented approach. Implementation of phased injury reduction KPIs, cross-functional collaboration, and targeted technological safety programs using digital tools.
Development of New Approaches to Leadership and Safety Culture
Transformation of safety culture approaches in a large corporation focusing on psychological safety, Human Performance, and a learning mindset. Revision of KPIs: moving away from tracking minor injuries in favor of deep analysis of serious and High Potential Incidents (HPI), and implementing Fair Event Handling for Life-Saving Rules violations.
HSE Function Leadership in Developing a Safety Culture
Transformation of the HSE function from an inspection approach to a business partner role through competency assessment, team training, and transferring project sponsorship to top management. Implementation of digital tools for mass employee engagement in recording unsafe acts and conditions.