Best practices safety leadership

Acknowledging the work of the United Nations system, in particular the long standing work of the United Nations Regional Commissions and the leadership of the World Health Organization, to advocate for greater political commitment to road safety, increase road safety activities, promote best practices, and coordinate road safety issues within the United Nations system. 

We know the values, leadership styles, and best practices of great safety leaders. We can describe the specific behaviors and practices they employ to provide safety leadership and provoke culture change (to be discussed in chapters 4 and 5). 

Organizational culture forms the fourth and outer ring. Culture is both the result of the personal safety ethic, leadership style, and best practices and the prerequisite for outstanding business success. As with the other rings of the leadership... 

One study (Figure 4-2) examined correlations between the transformational leadership style and the best practices. We found a significant positive correlation between subordinate ratings of each element of transformational leadership and each leadership best practice. As we said earlier, leadership best practices consist of a set of specific behaviors and activities that safety leaders engage in effectively, while style is about how safety leaders perform these activities. 

Trans/ormaf/onol Leadership Style Predicts Safety Best Practices... 

The LDI measures not only the safety leader s best practices (discussed in the next chapter) but also the leader s style—the degree to which the leader aligns with these four characteristics of transformational leadership ... 

Using a 360-degree diagnostic instrument such as the LDI gives the leader a picture of where to strengthen his or her safety leadership. Doing so requires focusing on the appropriate leadership best practices—the subject of the next chapter. 

Although these practices enhance leadership generally, we derived them with safety in mind. Effective leaders of all stripes are also effective safety leaders if they value safety, and effective safety leaders tend to be effective leaders in general. As we said earlier, these best practices develop in the leader through reflection and by acting on behalf of items that have intrinsic worth. In the case of patient and employee safety, the individual person commands intrinsic worth. 

Much has been written about accountability, the last of the leadership best practices. In the safety area, what employees and team members are held accountable for matters greatly. Holding people accountable for incident frequency rates only makes sense if the numbers are statistically valid. More important, upstream activities that produce safety results should be measured and accountabilities established for them. 

Leaders build culture through their personal safety ethic (the core of the Safety Leadership Model), their leadership style, and their leadership practices. In this chapter we examined the best practices that outstanding safety leaders share. In the next chapter we introduce applied behavior analysis, a tool for systematically managing one s own behavior and the behavior of others. 

Choose any existing safety-critical procedure or practice—e.g., hand hygiene or the leadership best practice of vision—and then observe how the activity is actually done. You will usually find a difference between the intention and the actuality. Sometimes the... 

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Establish a policy to make sure that the worksite stays in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements and best management practices Provide a safe work environment and working conditions for ah employees Provide the leadership and resources to accomplish safety policies and procedures... 

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