Breakthrough in behavioural safety

CHALLENGE

A global manufacturer of engineering plastics was struggling to improve safety performance at its largest site.

APPROACH

Six-week Analysis & Design to understand the requirements, get a good insight into the blockages of moving forward and to co-create an approach for the Implementation.
During the eight-month Implementation we created the space and conditions for change, removed blockages (mainly top team behaviour), reconnected the various organisational layers, simplified the HSE processes and system, and conducted on-the-job coaching built upon brain-based safety principles.

75% fewer recordable incidents

75% fewer ‘first aids’

200% increase in safety improvement proposals

Ongoing organisation development process, HSE- improvement programme rolled out to next plant on site

Cases

Declining operational performance and morale have been stopped by putting the basics back in order. Performance and morale are up again.

A metalworking company had lost control due to little attention to processes and rapid growth. A good operating model changed this.

The company had cut costs heavily in the recession. Now that demand picked up again, things went wrong. A firm intervention put it on track.