“Embrace the Red, Challenge the Green”
Bad news should be welcomed, lest it fester and result in catastrophe. Good news should be greeted with healthy skepticism, lest it hide the reality of the workplace.
Beyond Safety Compliance helps organizations regulated by a safety regulator to create an organizational mirror so that they can understand their starting position in organizational improvement. The concepts in Human and Organizational Performance and Organizational Health have begun to take root in many organizations ( Podcast Episodes ). You can join these successful organizations by deciding to work with Beyond Safety Compliance. For example, having a strong, impenetrable image is replaced with more nuanced humility and acceptance of a non ideal world. Technical competence is augmented with a complementary accent on critical people skills and relationships. These changes transform organizations’ mindsets, setting the stage for less internal dysfunction and misery, and more cohesion and success. Beyond Safety Compliance is ready to help you to undertake this journey.
You should hire Beyond Safety Compliance if you would like to go beyond the minimum bar of compliance, to become a much more effective organization. This choice takes commitment to humility and the long game, but the payoffs are worth this investment.
If you are an organization who would like to engage in getting better, willing to look realistically at the organization, and willing to invest some effort and time to do so, Beyond Safety Compliance would love to work with and support you.
An “organizational mirror” is a cultural assessment of a workplace. This can take place at various levels, such as with an executive team, with a specific department, or with the front line. It can be done in various ways, through workshops, collecting stories, or a more holistic approach involving many sources of data. An organizational mirror should serve the needs of the organization at the time it is undertaken, which may be unique given the circumstances in which the organization finds itself.
Creating an organizational mirror needs some awareness and understanding first. Once you have taken some training from Beyond Safety Compliance, you will be in a better position to know if you would like to create an organizational mirror.
You need not be decided upon your learning journey - in fact, it might be best if you are flexible! Contact Beyond Safety Compliance to learn more about the awareness and training sessions.
Great Question! Not all organizations can gain from what Beyond Safety Compliance can offer. Organizations who believe they are at the top of their game, have awards to prove it, and want to be the first in their domain may not have the best outlook to benefit from Beyond Safety Compliance. Organizations must be willing to undertake a long journey of introspection and self-reflection to reap the many resultant rewards.
Fit is very important in this type of journey, and spending some effort upfront to see if this working relationship is beneficial is worthwhile. Contact Beyond Safety Compliance to start the conversation.
This depends upon your needs when you contact Beyond Safety Compliance. The contract is only to confirm what the discussion covered. The upfront discussion is the main forum to decide the type of activities and the extent of them.
Absolutely! Beyond Safety Compliance is interested in helping any organization who is willing to take a serious look in the organizational mirror.
Once contacting Beyond Safety Compliance, we will have a brief chat to see if there is a possibility of a partnership. If so, we will have an in depth discussion to understand your needs, and how Beyond Safety Compliance may help. This upfront discussion is critical to understand the type and extent of activities with which you may want to engage.
There has been a shift in the world of safety and organizational health in the last 25 years or so, and you can benefit from approaches that bring a happier workforce, a more fulfilled executive and a more productive organization by hiring Beyond Safety Compliance. These approaches change the focus from “workers being a problem to solve” to “workers being a solution to harness”, and bring a more holistic understanding of the organizational influences on the workplace. Truly starting a journey in this space takes commitment - realizing that the long game and self-reflection are core to this process. Beyond Safety Compliance is ready to assist you on this journey.
ResourcesFar from being a universal solution, engagement with Beyond Safety Compliance could start a unique journey of continual improvement. Instead of focussing on fixing problems and generating solutions, you would create an organizational mirror, from which you can derive insight into who the organization is, define more precisely who it wants to be, and construct a path on how to get there.
Are you interested in learning about this newer approach to safety and organizational health to begin the change in perspective? Beyond Safety Compliance offers training in these concepts, which can be tailored to the needs of your organization, from introductory awareness to in-depth workshops.
Are you interested in beginning your journey of organizational and self-discovery to realize the opportunities of growth? Once familiar with the concepts offered in training, Beyond Safety Compliance can help you choose an organizational mirror to learn who you truly are to enable you to situate your current state of the improvement journey.
Have you looked in and reflected upon your organizational mirror? Are you ready to engage in efforts to operationalize your learnings to become a better organization? Beyond Safety Compliance can assist organizations in their quest for improvement.
Tanya Hewitt is a lifelong learner. She is passionate about safety science and human and organizational performance. She decided to begin Beyond Safety Compliance when the podcasts she listens to and the people she knows in the field were beginning to reveal that the concepts, ideas and practices of the evolving field of Safety Differently and Organizational Health were taking shape and making a real difference in the organizations that were employing them - from the ground level to the C-Suite. Having spent over 15 years working for a nuclear regulator and delivering many public presentations, Tanya offers rich experience and insight.
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