safety leadership

Safety leadership and its importance

Safety leadership and its importance

Safety leaders doesn’t necessarily have to be a Manager or Supervisor. It can be anybody who has the positive social influence over their peers and having an interest in implementing, improving safety across the organisation.

Safety leadership not only protects the employees but also increases their productivity.

Podcast with Mr.Sunday Geshom about Safety Leadership.

Sunday Geshom is Health & Safety officer, coach and helping organisations to build a safety culture and increase their productivity while achieving their objectives.

He is genuinely talking about Safety through Humanity in Linkedin

 “Safety should not be considered as priority, it considered to be the Value of any organisation because it is embedded in every level”- Sunday Geshom

Here are the some of the highlights of conversation:

What is Safety leadership?

Safety leadership is meant for everybody.

“Safety leaders is somebody who set standards and values for an organisation by making orders to do safe by influencing them.

Its not about monitoring. Its about you as a leader, ability to influence orders, it’s a belief in your safety, it’s a belief in what you are doing, to encourage them to see everything you are doing and they can come to you for advice and you should be there with them” – Sunday Geshom

He has shared many valuable insights about safety leadership in terms of vision, communication, facing challenges. Listen this episode to know more.

“Leading with safety is the attribute for a leader”- Sunday Geshom

Importance of Safety in workplace:

“Safety is the core of every business, if there is no safety, there is no business”- Sunday Geshom

The importance starts at management level, because safety

  • Increases productivity
  • Decreases workers turnover
  • Decreases sickness rate
  • Cost effectiveness

Listen the full episode to know the core importance of safety.

Regarding safety programs:

“Whatever programs are, all these things should be based on the level of exposure”-Sunday Geshom.

He has shared some programs like Awareness programs, Training Programs and Programs focusing on compliance.

“Safety leader is a base on your level of communication and relationship with your Employees and you should do the things what them to do”- Sunday Geshom