Safety Culture Development: How to Win Over Management-Safety Culture Development: How to Win Over Management

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The webinar was titled "Safety Culture Development: How to Win Over Management" and was presented by Steve Yates, CEO and founder of Optimum Safety Management. The webinar focused on the importance of gaining management support for safety culture development and provided strategies for effectively communicating with management. Yates emphasized the need to speak the language of management and understand their motivations and priorities. He discussed the significance of financial savings and the avoidance of loss as motivators for management. Yates provided examples of how safety can impact a company's insurance costs and workers' compensation premiums. He also highlighted the importance of measuring safety performance through lagging and leading indicators. Yates stressed the need to calculate the return on investment (ROI) of safety initiatives and provided formulas for doing so. He shared resources available through PCI, including the members-only section of the website, the safety helpline, and the Toolbox Talk library. Yates concluded by reminding attendees that management ultimately has the choice to support safety initiatives and encouraged them to trust management's decisions.

Keywords

Safety Culture Development

Management Support

Communicating with Management

Financial Savings

Insurance Costs

Workers' Compensation

Safety Performance

Return on Investment (ROI)

Trust in Management