Kevin Burns Blog

Welcome, frontline supervisors! In the intricate dance of workplace safety, your role is instrumental in guiding your team toward a culture of safety excellence. Let's delve into the transformative power of CareFull Supervision in reducing safety incidents and nurturing a robust safety culture within your organization.

If you are a senior manager of an industrial company, you may be facing some serious challenges in your organization. You may be experiencing increased numbers of safety incidents, employee complacency, and a lack of engagement that’s creating frustration, higher employee absenteeism, and turnover. You may wonder how to break the cycle of downward performance and create a positive and productive work environment.

In the realm of supervision, sleepless nights are all too common. The anxieties, the doubts, the nagging fears - they all come with the territory. Every supervisor has faced that gnawing worry, that fear of the unknown, whether it's dealing with a challenging personality or battling the impostor syndrome, questioning their own competence in the role.

This week, we're diving into team motivation. It turns out that it matters not just what you say but how often you say it. So, let's explore the Losada Ratio and how it can transform your team's motivation.

There's a fundamental shift that occurs the moment a front-facing employee becomes the crew's supervisor. And the quicker you understand the shift, the faster you will get the buy-in of your team.

Safety buy-in happens when you engage your people, simplify the communications, figure out the prime objective, and get supervisors on board. When you have safety buy-in, do you think you will need safety speakers anymore?

Episode 6 of the Safety Buy-in video series tackles company priorities and why you may be having a hard time getting buy-in to your safety program by adding safety as one of your priorities.

When selling your team on the benefits of safety, you must remember this one key element that is more likely to create buy-in than any compelling argument you may have for safety. Watch the video.

What happens when the word "safety" becomes a barrier to safety buy-in? It is happening with increasing frequency in all sectors and industries. And it's probably happening in your company too.

No other department in your organization is focused on negative reinforcement to try to improve performance. How did this happen in safety and why has it lasted so long?