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One of the neglected concern is to focus more on safety...Have you?

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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Safety and compliance with regularities should be on top concern for PM. HSE is costing organization more money and reputation so

Have you celebrated this year (2019) with zero harm?
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Riyadh
Interesting your question
Thanks for sharing

When you mean security is Stricto Sensu (teams in project execution) or Lato Sensu (inclusion of security in products and services beyond execution)?
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Dec 30, 2019 12:25 AM
Riyadh Salih
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Luis I really did not used the word security for limited however this is inclusive of safety if any incident require first aid or re-portable to the OH &S
Any spill for environment or even Bullying or harassment in a work place could add unsafe situation for other workers and the poison culture in work place has big impact.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Yes in my actual work place in most of the places of the world (close to 100% of the locations). All the people that worked in projects of any type have in line with that. The company has make an important investment on that.
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Dec 30, 2019 12:27 AM
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Sergio yes all those expensive programme helps to reduce or eliminate the incident however it is implemented in the manager KPI to watch for that and ensure zero harm.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Riyadh -

I'd like to say that at least whenever I was in a leadership perspective this year, I tried to cultivate a culture of psychological safety. Thankfully, for the domains I work in, there are HSE departments much better equipped to handle physical safety aspects and my work never would interfere with theirs.

Kiron
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2 replies by Luis Branco and Riyadh Salih
Dec 29, 2019 9:04 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Kiron
Interesting this concept: "psychological safety"

Can you explain a little better what it consists of? How do you implement yourself in a company or organization?
Dec 30, 2019 12:34 AM
Riyadh Salih
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Kiron, well even if there is a safety officer in the work place this does not eliminate the responsibility of the direct manager or supervisor who direct the work all SOP & JHA followed every time or in any change of procedure as it bring new risk that must be evaluated with new mitigation plan.
for example if an inspector see a worker on construction site without a hard hat the worker gets the ticket the supervisor gets the ticket and the company also gets the ticket so you see for one infraction three entities get three tickets The company would get the bigger fine.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Riyad,

Concern for HSE is an important, very clearly manage in the construction industry for the physical aspect. Other industries don't have has elaborate effort, since most are not consider accident-prone.

I can see that many industries are reinforcing the role of their HR to include psychological safety, working on harassment prevention of all kinds.

Construction need to demonstrate zero accident record to bid on many projects. What if other industries had to demonstrate such a clean record?

Compliance should be a major concern to all PM within the project and the organization. Since compliance involves internal policies and rules, and all applicable laws, it can become complex with various local and international laws.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Dec 30, 2019 12:43 AM
Riyadh Salih
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Vincent, thanks for your valued feedback, yes it is a continuous procedure to improve and enhance safety now that with every new laws we have to update the policy and deal with controlled substance such as
recreational pot cannabis etc. also each province has its number of discrimination grounds starts from 13 points to 16 or 17 points
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Riyadh, my response is right there with Kiron's.
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Dec 30, 2019 2:17 AM
Riyadh Salih
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Andrew thanks for your comments
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Alexandre Costa Scrum Master| Integer Consulting - Pictet technologies Loures, Portugal
In my actual work place safety is taken in serious way, this year we didn't have any major occurences. But the country were we are located is far from being a beacon in this area.

Portugal is one of the countries in european union with more work acidents and this is direct related with companies negligence that do not comply with safety standards and do not act preventively.

Alexandre Costa
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Dec 30, 2019 2:19 AM
Riyadh Salih
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Alexandre thanks for your point it is really that this culture has to be implemented from top down it takes time to build that safety culture and increase the values of all workers
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 29, 2019 6:38 AM
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Riyadh -

I'd like to say that at least whenever I was in a leadership perspective this year, I tried to cultivate a culture of psychological safety. Thankfully, for the domains I work in, there are HSE departments much better equipped to handle physical safety aspects and my work never would interfere with theirs.

Kiron
Dear Kiron
Interesting this concept: "psychological safety"

Can you explain a little better what it consists of? How do you implement yourself in a company or organization?
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1 reply by Kiron Bondale
Dec 29, 2019 11:24 AM
Kiron Bondale
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Luis -

I'd highly recommend Amy Edmondson's book The Fearless Organization and her TED Talks on the subject but it is something I am passionate about.

Psychological safety exists within the context of a team and means that people don't worry about expressing fears, uncertainties, doubts and assumptions. They are willing to speak up without risk of being personally shamed or abused.

Regardless of the prevailing culture within our organization or department, whenever we are in a leadership position we have the ability to create a safe working environment for our team members, and to encourage them to support each other in achieving the same.

Kiron
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Dec 29, 2019 9:04 AM
Replying to Luis Branco
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Dear Kiron
Interesting this concept: "psychological safety"

Can you explain a little better what it consists of? How do you implement yourself in a company or organization?
Luis -

I'd highly recommend Amy Edmondson's book The Fearless Organization and her TED Talks on the subject but it is something I am passionate about.

Psychological safety exists within the context of a team and means that people don't worry about expressing fears, uncertainties, doubts and assumptions. They are willing to speak up without risk of being personally shamed or abused.

Regardless of the prevailing culture within our organization or department, whenever we are in a leadership position we have the ability to create a safe working environment for our team members, and to encourage them to support each other in achieving the same.

Kiron
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3 replies by Luis Branco and Riyadh Salih
Dec 30, 2019 12:35 AM
Riyadh Salih
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Kiron and yes safety is the responsibility of everyone
Dec 30, 2019 6:34 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Kiron
Thank you for your sharing

I've been watching the videos of Amy Edmondson's TED Conferences
Interesting this concept of psychologically safe

If teams are made up of people with growth mindset (and obviously critical thinking), the reported situations are unlikely to happen

How to promote psychologically safe in companies when people in teams have a fixed mindset? (low level of critical thinking)

Can it be achieved only with the change in organizational culture?
Dec 30, 2019 12:10 PM
Riyadh Salih
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Kiron good one how aboutthis did you explore it

Fearless Leadership: How to Overcome Behavioral Blindspots and Transform Your Organization
by Loretta Malandro, Bernadette Dunne.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Riyadh

In the Real Estate Development and Consturction world, HSE is of utmost importance 24/07. I actually wrote an article about this back in the days - Feel free to check it out:

https://www.projectmanagement.com/articles...alth-Management

Without proper safety measures and compliance, projects could fail.

RK
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Dec 30, 2019 12:14 PM
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Rami thank you for your support see this is the problem when you wrote something it wont pop up again I mean once it is up for few hours or one - two days then it gets buried and no one knows about it
some key words should bring up previous topic accordingly
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Dec 29, 2019 4:48 AM
Replying to Luis Branco
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Dear Riyadh
Interesting your question
Thanks for sharing

When you mean security is Stricto Sensu (teams in project execution) or Lato Sensu (inclusion of security in products and services beyond execution)?
Luis I really did not used the word security for limited however this is inclusive of safety if any incident require first aid or re-portable to the OH &S
Any spill for environment or even Bullying or harassment in a work place could add unsafe situation for other workers and the poison culture in work place has big impact.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Dec 30, 2019 5:08 AM
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Dear Riyad
It is true what Alexandre wrote: "Portugal is one of the countries in European union with more work accidents and this is directly related to companies negligence that do not comply with safety standards and do not act preventively"

I can only be concerned about this reality

In projects where I participate, safety is a point of honor.

Zero harm
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