The Outovator’s Guide to Building a Safety Culture - Part IV Seven tools for building a worldclass safety culture – Part A
Learning from “Diffusion of Innovation” by Everett Rodgers (1962) - especially - concepts of innovators and early adopters - are one of the seven tools for transforming safety culture and empowering our teams.
The Outovator’s Guide to Building a Safety Culture - Part 3 Framework and Self Assessment Tool
A safety culture is built analogous to a house …. one layer at a time.
Self assessment tool (download) can help an organization determine their baseline safety culture in the form of a heatmap.
The Outovator’s Guide to Building a Safety Culture: Part 2 - Benefits
A behavior-based safety culture saves lives, saves money—and empowers employees!
Organizational culture transformation is rarely easy - sustained emphasis on behavioral based safety culture enhancement can provide a short circuit path to energizing, empowering and thereby transforming many aspects of organizational culture.
The Outovator’s Guide to Building a Safety Culture: Part 1 - Introduction
Organizational safety culture - both physical safety and psychological safety has a disproportionate impact on the financial performance of the organization. I was not taught this in classrooms - rather it was taught by mentors and by colleagues in the organizations where I worked and for whom I consulted.
For many years I tried to verbally explain how safety culture could transform organizational culture. My verbal efforts had mixed success. Around 2018, I began writing a series of documents, and collecting some tools into a package that has ended up as a blog series.