ESM 23.0 - A Manager’s Guide to Understanding and Reducing Risk is number 23 of 25 distinct and separate courses, referenced as Executive Safety Minutes (ESMs), available that teach the student how to be strategic in creating a plan to improve and/or maintain safety performance.
Being strategic is important because if one does not get the big picture strategy right the tactics may not be effective and ultimately prove to be a lost resource.
This Executive Safety Minute, like all the Executive Safety Minutes in the series, will introduce you to strategies that will make you a better professional and help you influence at the highest levels in your organization. This will boost your confidence, further develop your professional skillset, and help you influence strategic decisions.
Given that less risk equates to fewer people getting injured and potentially lower severity of individual events, it is no surprise that reducing risk should be a key objective of most safety plans. This safety minute provides managers and engineers a starting point on how to recognize risk and ways to reduce risk. This Executive Safety Minute:
Starts with defining risk and then addresses those things that drive risk,
Is followed by multiple higher-level perspectives on how to reduce risk, and
Finishes with a “Managers guide to leveraging the safety plan”.
While we may all understand that working safe is important, not everyone sees safety as a core value. Most of the world believes that working safe conflicts with business performance. This is completely wrong because safety is a leading indicator of business performance and those things we do to improve safety, like planning the work,...
There are no prerequisite requirements for this class, but the students taking this class would benefit from reviewing the previous Executive Safety Minutes in this series.