Safety Leadership

[Terry Gibson]

May I call on your collective experience to help me explore that possibility of using OS in a tough, male dominated, engineering environment. We have a situation where a multi-national industry is engaged in trying to get every member their workforce to develop personal responsibility in the context of safety. Currently a three day programme exists based around fairly traditional, but effective, value-based activities in the areas of building more honest, effective communications and understanding the processes within group interaction. It has been very much a "here's the take, now feel the experience" approach.

Residential workshops have been limited to 12 men from different teams but now the client is asking whether it would be possible to achieve the same objectives using intact teams of between 8 and 150 men. (Probably the average is 20). This is an industry with employees used to directives from above, and procedures learned through traditional sheep dip courses.

I can see a role for OS in raising the important issues around safety, communication, leadership, responsibilities etc existing within a specific team. But I do not have the confidence to believe people will come willingly 'with passion', or that the apparent unstructured approach of OS would appeal to the client. I am also not certain how much support people would receive to follow through any identified actions - which would only end in frustration etc.

Does anyone have experience of any successes in this area they could share?

With anticipated thanks

Terry Gibson
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