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Managing your mind is the greatest safety asset you have!
| Guest post by: Pat Mussieux |
Article Overview: “As human beings, we move towards and act like that which we think about!” – Lou Tice So, what are you thinking about? Did you stop to realize that your mindset is your greatest asset when it comes to safety!
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Managing your mind is the greatest safety asset you have!
“As human beings, we move
towards and act like that which we think about!” – Lou Tice So, what are you thinking about? Did you stop to realize that your mindset is your greatest asset when it
comes to safety!
Many years ago, I worked in
Human Resources for a steel manufacturing company. Creating a mindset for safety in the culture
was one very big challenge mainly because the majority of employees didn’t
understand English! Production and profits
outranked people and safety. It was at a
time when recruiting qualified individuals was a major challenge, so anyone
with a pulse and a willingness to work was hired.
Our accident rates were
through the roof! Why? Because people didn’t have an effective means
to communicate and implement safety. People
weren’t thinking. People weren’t taught how to think effectively. People weren’t focused on safety results as a
number one priority.
Safety starts with the way
you think. And it starts at the level of
every single person in the organization especially the leadership team. A mindset for safety is reflected in the
culture of the company. I often heard the phrase, “Our people are our
greatest asset but what I heard and what I experienced on my old steel days was
incongruent.
Since then, I’ve had the
incredible opportunity to work with leading research psychologists in the field
of critical thinking. It’s all about mindset! Research psychologists show, in their
studies, that there are 4 major barriers to human beings using their full
potential – Habits, Attitudes, Beliefs and Expectations!
I experienced, firsthand,
those 4 major (psychological) barriers to working in a safe environment.
·
Poor safety habits on the job. This applies not only to employees but within
the leadership team, with the incoming vendors, with suppliers and all those
coming on site.
·
Poor attitudes with respect to “it’s not my
job; it’s not my responsibility; it’s not my company”!
·
Core beliefs – “that will never happen to
me”;
·
Lack of expectations
– there was not a high standard of expectation, or excellence, with respect to
safety on the job!
In my experience, working as
a coach, I have added 3 additional barriers: ego, emotion and control.
Technical training is, without
a doubt, essential when working in the oil and gas industry. People who are technically trained on the job
have core competencies and can produce results.
One area that is neglected in training and development is the area of
critical thinking – the art and mastery of staying mentally fit. To consider
this a technical training initiative would be to provide a corporate culture
that is pro-active when it comes to safety. A mindset for safety can be taught.
“If you keep doing what you’re doing,
you’ll keep getting what you’re getting!”
To think otherwise, is the
definition of insanity.
So, what can you do to create a culture and a mindset for safety. It starts first with the way you think and
the way you talk about safety. Our
self-talk (that inner voice) helps to form our beliefs. When you change your self-talk to be
positive, uplifting and forward thinking, you can change your beliefs. When
you change beliefs, you change performance!
Individuals have
self-talk. Teams have self-talk. Companies and organizations have
self-talk. Organizations are nothing
more than a network of conversations. Be
aware, for a 24-hour period of your own
self-talk and of the self-talk around
you. What are people saying?
Is it positive? Is it ‘oh, ain’t it awful?” Is it creating the safety results you desire
in the work place?
I have one simple exercise
for changing one’s self talk. Remember,
all meaningful and lasting change starts first on the inside…….it starts with
YOU!
Take an elastic band and put
it on your wrist. For a 24-hour period,
you are not allowed any sarcasm, any teasing, any devaluation, any negativity
to yourself or to anyone around you.
Any time you find your self-talk turning negative; give that elastic
band a little snap! The purpose of this
exercise is to help you become aware of your own self-talkfor 24 hours! I believe, in my experience, that negative
self-talk has become a habit. We’re good
at it. The six o’clock news is good at
it. We are programmed primarily in
negativity and it doesn’t serve us!
The fact remains that, how we
think and speak affects our attitude, our performance, our beliefs arout what’s
possible, for our life, for our career, for our business.
One practice I had, in
leading my teams, was an ‘elastic day’ at work, at least once a month (when I
felt the self-talk was turning negative).
It’s an awareness activity and habits take time to change. This is a powerful technique so don’t be
telling yourself ‘this is silly’. It
works!
Safety it’s all in the way you
think. So, how’s your thinking? When our
organizations create a culture of leadership and self awareness at the level of
every single individual, then and only then will we create superior safe
results.
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