Talking Health, Safety and Wellbeing; Building an Empowering Culture in a Post-COVID World; 3rd Edition

The book considers what makes an excellent face-to-face health and safety contact in the workplace, and why these contacts are a fundamental building block of any strong, caring, and empowering workplace culture. It stresses the vital importance of inquiry, empathy, and analysis in understanding what employees need to mitigate risk factors around safety and mental health. This revised and updated edition includes empowering methodologies that directly address mental health and well-being issues and the challenges organisations face in a post COVID19 era. The reader will gain an understanding of the day-to-day mechanisms of why “culture is king” and how everyone contributes every-day to this truism. This book covers how interactions regarding leadership and teamwork directly lead to the amount of human error and fallibility an organisation can expect to need to manage, and how taking proactive, analytical, and empowering approaches to safety and health is key to identifying and mitigating risks. Talking Health, Safety and Wellbeing explains why it is so important to talk about health and safety issues proactively. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this book is an ideal read for any frontline supervisor, HR manager, mental health first aider, safety rep, or company director. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication Page 6 Contents 8 List of figures 10 About the author 11 Preface 12 Two stories and a case study by way of introduction 14 Introduction 18 Section One A little theory 22 1 Why bother? 24 2 Safety and health excellence (is just excellence) 48 Section Two Safety & health contacts 74 3 Introduce yourself and set the tone 84 4 Analysis 91 5 Coaching 106 6 Eliciting a promise (?) 123 7 Close out 127 Conclusion 132 Appendix 1: Final checklist 133 Appendix 2: Suggested basic seven-items checklist 134 Further reading 136 Index 138 culture;,tool;,box;,talks;,conversation;,unsafe;,act;,world;,class;,behavioural culture,tool,box,talks,conversation,unsafe,act,world,class,behavioural "The book considers what makes an excellent face-to-face health and safety contact on the workplace, and why these contacts are a fundamental building block of any strong, caring and empowering workplace culture. It stresses the vital importance of inquiry, empathy and analysis in understanding what employees need to mitigate risk factors around safety and mental health. This revised and updated edition includes empowering methodologies that directly address mental health and well-being issues and the challenges organisations face in a post COVID19 era. The reader will gain an understanding of the day-to-day mechanisms of why "culture is king" and how everyone contributes every-day to this truism. This book covers how interactions regarding leadership and teamwork directly lead to the amount of human error and fallibility an organisation can expect to need to manage, and how taking pro-active, analytical and empowering approaches to safety and health is key to identifying and mitigating risks. Talking Health, Safety and Wellbeing explains why it is so important to talk about health and safety issues pro-actively. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this book is an ideal read for any frontline supervisor, HR manager, mental health first aider, safety rep or company director"-- Provided by publisher