We had some good feedback about last week’s new Safety Leadership safety moment available on our resources page. Note we also have a number of other intelligent safety moments available, on subjects covering Risk Normalisation, Weak Signals, Safety Culture, Psychological Safety, Risk Perception and more. All are simple to understand, one-pagers and need take no more than 5 minutes to present. And most importantly they are all FREE to download in Powerpoint format. Why not get your team engagement flowing by kicking off your next meeting with a safety moment?
Safety Leadership
Safety Leadership is fundamental to building a healthy safety culture in your organisation. This is why we've made a great one-page safety moment on Safety Leadership, free to download.
Safety Leadership isn't just managers and supervisors either. Everyone plays a part in Safety Leadership, no matter what their role or work tasks. Refresh your personnel on aspects of Safety Leadership by kicking off your next meeting with this easy to understand safety moment. Follow our LinkedIn page for more updates and free downloads.
How Do You Perceive Risk?
You don´t know? Well lucky you..! Here at bSafer we know that you´re not alone. So to help you and your Team, we have put together a great one-page Safety Moment giving a easy introduction to Perception of Risk. As usual, FREE to download in Powerpoint format from our resources page. Another great one to kick off a meeting and get your Team activated. Feel free to let us know what you think. In the meantime, follow our Linkedin page for regular updates and more free downloads.
Yes its Friday..! Time for Safety?
Here at bSafer we enjoy Fridays! We close out this week’s work, start preparing for next week and not least the weekend is just around the corner. But does the pressure to get finished threaten to turn Friday into a mad rush, thereby increasing risk exposure? Why not take a 5 minute safety huddle on a Friday, invite your team to set the topic and re-focus the mind on your shared safety expectations. And as a bonus, your team gets to take their safety mindset home for the weekend, hopefully benefiting their friends and family. A great initiative we think, thanks to weeklysafety.com for the inspiration. Follow our bSafer Linkedin page for more updates.
Kick Start your Meeting
We kicked off a meeting with some of our partners this morning with a quick safety moment on psychological safety. A safety moment is a super way to start a meeting and psychological safety culture is a simple and effective way to boost team engagement and creativity. Why not use our simple one-pager on psychological safety or one of the others to kick-start your meeting? They're easy to understand and free to download here: https://getbsafer.com/tutorials
Long Working Hours
We came across an interesting and quite an eye opening study the other day conducted by the World Health Organisation about the negative effects of long working hours on people’s health. The results indicate that increasing your working hours from around 40 to 55 hours a week can significantly increase your risk of suffering a stroke or from heart disease. Quite alarming we think, so we thought we’d put together a safety moment or infographic to help raise the awareness of this, particularly as working patterns have changed during the pandemic. Of course, we’ll let you know when its ready. In the meantime, you can read about the study on the WHO website here: https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2021-long-working-hours-increasing-deaths-from-heart-disease-and-stroke-who-ilo .
Keep your Risks Close and your Opportunities Closer..!
In your pocket, what could be closer than that? With the bSafer mobile app you can have just that. Risks and opportunities develop and change and need to be managed. Having your existing risks and opportunities on hand wherever you may be, editable from your phone and updated in real time as others edit the risk register can help you stay on top. Add new risks or opportunities as they arise straight into the app on your phone, instantly visible to others in your organisation with access to your risk register. Contact us to learn more about the bSafer software and mobile app.
Psychological Safety Moment
Back in December we posted about the principle of Psychological Safety and promised some resources around this important topic. Well its done! Our latest Safety Moment is a great introduction to the concept of Psychological Safety, whether your business is actively creating a psychologically safe culture or has ambition to. In a 2015 study, the one and only Google found that Psychological Safety was one of 5 key factors to creating the “perfect team”, so why not download (for FREE) our one page Safety Moment on our resources page and learn more. Follow our Linkedin page to stay updated on new FREE resources.
Mental Health and COVID
During one of our Teams meetings this morning, the topic of working from home and increased isolation due to COVID was discussed. We were reminded of the negative impact that this can have on a persons mental health and general wellbeing. Fortunately there are resources available for both individuals and leaders to use to help encourage the conversation. A good place to start is the International Labour Organization website https://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm. Click on the “Covid-19 and the world of work” button or simply search for “Mental Health” in the search bar.
Keep your safety culture fresh
Safety culture is something that needs constant attention, it needs to be reminded, refreshed and reinforced at every opportunity to get the best safety focus and performance from your Team. Starting your meetings with a short safety moment can help with this. Here at bSafer, we offer FREE safety moments covering key subjects such as HSE in Design, Safety Culture, Weak Signals and Risk Normalisation. Each one is designed to be easy to understand, quick to present and to provoke healthy conversations. Download them for free at our website. No registration or sign up required.
Digital Decisions
When your safety, environmental, quality and risk management activities go digital, opinion and gut feeling can be removed from the decision making process. The bSafer Statistics Module can provide concrete data about your QHSE and Risk performance. Use this to drive your focus areas, initiatives and changes to make real improvements where it matters. Set target KPIs and monitor your progress in real time. Let your data work for you. Go digital. Try bSafer.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Prepared for the Worst?
Emergency preparedness is essential for all organisations. bSafer includes an Emergency Response Team (ERT) module which can help you quickly and effectively alert and mobilise your team via SMS and email notifications. You can then manage your emergency using the Emergency Room, an online collaborative space shared with your team managing all the essential emergency information, allocation and followup of actions and automatic logging of activities as they happen for later analysis. Try it for free, contact us here: www.getbsafer.com.
Heard of psychological safety?
Psychological safety is a sense of feeling accepted and respected within your team and enables you to “show and employ one’s self without fear of negative consequences of self-image, status or career” (Kahn, W.A. 1990). Why is this important? Well, its been shown to help increase team engagement, improve the learner mindset and can promote innovation. We think this is deserving of a bSafer Infogram to help you learn more, so we’re working on it and will let you know when its uploaded to the free resources section of our bSafer website. In the meantime, follow our Linkedin page to stay updated.
First Indicators (Weak Signals)
Luke Skywalker famously said “Ive got a very bad feeling about this” in the 1977 epic Star Wars. Gut feeling is nothing new, but in safety, quality and risk management it cannot be ignored. First indicators, also known as weak signals are early signs that conditions or activities may not be as they should be, may in the near future change to something less optimal or undesirable, and may be a surprise to the observer and lead to questioning of existing assumptions. Learn more about First Indicators, how to recognise them and how to use them to build a safer culture with our Safety Moment - First Indicators. Find it on our Resources page.
The Safety Culture Quick Guide and Checklist is here!
The widely anticipated Safety Culture Quick Guide and Checklist (cheat sheet if you like!) is finally here. A simple three page guide designed to help you develop a great and healthy safety culture within your team or business. Or use it to check or further develop the culture you have in place by targeting particularly aspects. such as risk ownership, communication or behaviours.
Check it out on the bSafer resources page, in the INFOGRAPHICS AND USEFUL RESOURCES section. Free to download as always, PDF format.
Safety Culture Cheat Sheet
Some time ago we posted about the free Safety Culture safety moment we uploaded to our resources page and we also promised to upload a Safety Culture Cheat Sheet, a simple but essential checklist of actions and principles to help you build a healthy safety culture within your business. Well good news.. its almost ready! We will be uploading it to our resources page in a day or two, free to download as usual. Follow our Linkedin page to be notified..
Monitor the Heart Beat of your Business
Did your new HSE reporting initiative have an effect? Have your revised processes resulted in less non-conformances? Use the bSafer Analytics Module to monitor the heart beat of your business. Analyse reporting trends by locations, departments, particular reporting types or any other metric over any time period. Take action where needed or recognise a good performance. Learn more at https://getbsafer.com/ and follow our Linkedin page to get regular news updates.
Leading and Lagging Indicators - An Easy Guide
Leading and lagging indicators can be a great way to monitor and improve your HSE performance. But it´s important that all personnel are onboard. So here at bSafer, we´ve produced a handy infographic which is free to download and use. It´s a one-page poster giving a simple overview of what leading and lagging indicators are all about. Download yours for free as always on our resources page and follow our Linkedin page to receive news and more free resources.
bSafer with your Emergency Preparedness
Emergency preparedness is essential for any organisation. Use the digital transition to streamline your emergency management using bSafer. Trial it for free, and experience instant app based notification of your Emergency Response Team (ERT) from anywhere. Collaborate in real-time online or together in the office using the event Emergency Room. Allocate actions and share relevant files, visible immediately to the whole ERT. Perform an after-action review of the auto-log for a clear chronological record of the emergency from start to end, and implement relevant learnings. Trial bSafer for free; compare with your current Emergency Response system and experience the benefits of a digitalised emergency management system.
