Way Forward
The ‘Securing the Future – The Way Forward’ programme creates a ‘one team’ approach to safety across a company.
To achieve this, employees identify safety challenges and are given the responsibility for owning and implementing the solutions themselves. By focusing completely on the health, safety and welfare of every member of the client family, safety and business objectives merge into one and can be managed together.
As a consequence, individuals and teams become safer and more efficient through simplifying systems, procedures and the way that tasks are performed. Any changes made are justified by a Steering Group representing the workforce who put together an action plan which sets out how it will cost effectively deliver the organisation’s new safety objectives. This action plan is presented to the senior management team for agreement and buy-in. Execution of the plan is in the hands of the workforce, with the help and support of their supervisors and/or line managers and in turn they receive help and support from their managers and thence to the Board of Directors. A ‘One Team – One Goal’ organisation is created, the existing ‘chasm’ between a workforce and its management team is closed and the latent ‘horse power’ within the workforce is harnessed to achieve world-class safety and business performance.
Throughout the process, the teams can ask for support and assistance for issues that span the organisation. Once the senior management have understood and demonstrated they fully back the process, the teams themselves accept accountability for the timely delivery of the specific safety improvements.
