Safety Leadership

[Nigel Rawlins]

I ran a half day workshop with blue collar metal workers at
Tubemakers Australia. Half day on 'Dying for customer and company"

The manager was worried about health and safety. However once it
started there were a number of issues that came up but the most
important one was about cutting the metal and storing the offcut and
where they could find it next time they needed it.

As they say in Open Space Technology be prepared to be surprised.
This decision probably saved them over 100K over the year. Solved
because they had the opportunity to raise an issue of concern to
themselves and solve it their way. Mind you they had a manual saying
how they should do it.

These were pretty tough guys with low education but they excelled
using this process and then went on to tell visiting US consultants
and senior managers that this was the best day's training they had
ever been involved in. They learned as many do in OS that if
something has to be done they have to take the responsibility to
make it happen.

Hope this helps
Nigel Rawlins
mailto:nigel at 13thbeach.com.au