Innovating the health and safety culture
A safety culture that is conducive to innovation is not only good for the company’s bottom line, but is something that leaders and employees value. Innovation is considered as a norm in today’s ever-changing arena, and be it any field, there are people that support this idea. May be simply because such behaviors help translate into better and superior performances. As management books perceive, innovative culture is defined by its tolerance for failure, willingness to experiment, psychological safety, collaborative atmosphere etc.
The rapid advancements and the future of work will require us to think of health and safety in different ways. Each industry holds the potential to innovate differently; site-specific factors matter and without direct engagement with the circumstances and cultures at individual sites, it becomes difficult to progress in terms of OSH.
