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    The M.A.D. Safety Book for Leaders (Make a Difference)
    The M.A.D. Safety Book for Leaders (Make a Difference)
    The M.A.D. Safety Book for Leaders (Make a Difference)
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    The M.A.D. Safety Book for Leaders (Make a Difference)

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    Your Company Needs Your Safety-Focused Leadership!


    Leaders at every level of your company can make a profound difference in employee safety, but they may often struggle to influence safety performance effectively.

    Through 14 engaging chapters, you will find practical and proven safety-focused leadership advice written in an appealing, non-academic style. Each chapter also provides one or more "Top Ten" lists designed to succinctly help you enhance your safety leadership skills.

    The M.A.D. Safety Book for Leaders (Make a Difference) will help you gain the skills and perspective to understand how to:

    • Establish the foundational elements of safety leadership and drive a positive safety culture.
    • Lead with care and compassion to better engage employees.
    • Motivate employees to work safely and help protect them from injury risks.
    • Identify the actual reasons why injuries happen and discover strategies to prevent them.
    • Develop leaders within your company to see their leadership gaps that lead to injury risks.


    Are you ready to "Make A Difference"?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Morgan
    Release dateJul 17, 2024
    ISBN9798990642416
    The M.A.D. Safety Book for Leaders (Make a Difference)

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      The M.A.D. Safety Book for Leaders (Make a Difference) - Mark L. Morgan

      The

      M.A.D.

      Safety Book

      for

      Leaders

      (Make a Difference)

      Mark L. Morgan

      Copyright © 2024, Mark L. Morgan

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical (including any information storage retrieval system) without the express written permission from the author, except in the case of brief quotations for use in articles and reviews wherein appropriate attribution of the source is made.

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      ISBN: 979-8-9906424-0-9

      ISBN: 979-8-9906424-1-6 (E-book)

      ISBN: 979-8-9906424-2-3 (Hardcover)

      For bulk purchases and for booking, contact:

      Mark L. Morgan

      Mark.L.Morgan.USA@Gmail.com

      Because of the dynamic nature of the internet, web addresses or links contained in this book may have been changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The content of this book and all expressed opinions are those of the author and do not reflect the publisher or the publishing team. The author is solely responsible for all content included herein.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2024907683

      Cover design by Noel Sellon

      Edited by Cathy Cruise

      Interior design by Jetlaunch

      FIRST EDITION

      A special thanks to the leadership at the Florida Chamber

      of Commerce for their support, encouragement, and comradery.

      And to my wife, Heidi, the love of my life.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 The Fundamentals of Safety-Focused Leadership

      Chapter 2 Are All Injuries Preventable?

      Chapter 3 Drive Your Safety Culture!

      Chapter 4 Get Out of the Office!

      Chapter 5 Taking a Deeper Look at Event Investigations

      Chapter 6 Latent Leadership Failures That Can Lead to Injuries

      Chapter 7 The Leadership Event Investigation and Accountability Model

      Chapter 8 The Value of Identifying and Reporting Near Misses and Unsafe Conditions

      Chapter 9 Peer-to-Peer Coaching

      Chapter 10 Safety 24/7: The Human Case and the Business Case

      Chapter 11 The Unification of Safety with Mental and Physical Wellness

      Chapter 12 Case Management and Questionable Injuries

      Chapter 13 Why Do Safety Initiatives Often Fail?

      Chapter 14 Staff Injuries – OMG!

      Conclusion

      Resources

      Will You Share the Love?

      About the Author

      Introduction

      If you are a supervisor, manager, or senior leader, this book was written for you. The contents center on safety-focused leadership, as this is the foundation of any successful safety program. Each chapter will help guide you to become a more impactful (safety) leader.

      A demonstrated core value (stated or implied) of your organization should be the safety of your employees. What could be more important than ensuring your employees will go home uninjured every day? What better legacy can you leave an organization and its employees than an improved safety program?

      Do you want to learn additional leadership skills in safety and help drive your organization’s safety performance? Are you ready to make an exceptional difference in your company?

      You’ll find many of the primary truths about safety-focused leadership in this book. These are based in part on reviews of countless successful safety programs and safety publications, interviews of safety leaders, and my personal safety career experiences.

      The content was intentionally written in a nonacademic style. It’s designed as an accessible and practical resource to help you improve how you lead and influence the safety of your team or organization. One or more Top 10 lists are found in each chapter; these will help you easily focus on areas for improvement in your safety-focused leadership and safety initiatives.

      There is no single correct approach to improving the safety performance of an organization. The great news is there are many positive and high-leverage leadership strategies that can be adopted that will make a difference. The real challenge is to select the top two or three that will have the greatest impact on your company.

      The key is to consider your company’s current culture and leadership’s readiness for change, and then adopt what works for your organization.

      I would also encourage you to ask yourself the tough questions: What kind of leader are you currently? Really? What positive change have you brought to your organization? Are you stagnant in your thinking, or are you willing to consider new opportunities for growth?

      In his book Education of a CEO: Lessons for Leaders, Bill Yeargin, CEO of Correct Craft, makes this comment on personal growth: We can either approach life with a growth mindset or suffer the consequences of being a knower—and these consequences are high. Knowers stay trapped in their own thinking, which makes them feel good but also results in living a lie. They not only fail to reach their potential but also go through life deceived.

      With this book in your hands or on your monitor, I’m betting that you are ready to grow as a leader—and what better place to start than with safety? Get ready to be outstanding!

      "Leadership is not about being in charge.

      Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge."

      —Simon Sinek

      Chapter 1

      The Fundamentals of Safety-Focused Leadership

      If there is a single key ingredient to an outstanding safety program, it is leadership. Safety committees, audits, observations, training, rules, communications, and technology won’t have the desired impact without excellent safety-focused leadership. Furthermore, safety leadership can’t be looked at in a vacuum or as an equation. A broad and holistic view will be required to fully understand the leadership opportunities in your safety program.

      Why is this important? Your safety-focused leadership will impact injury prevention, but will also have positive effects on your organization’s culture, morale, productivity, recruiting, retention, etc.

      Let this first chapter serve as a quick jump start to help you identify some important gaps in your strategic thinking as you evaluate how you and your organization perceive and influence employee safety.

      There are many universal truths about safety-focused leadership. Check yourself against the following list.

      The Top 10: Core Essentials for Safety-Focused Leadership—What Every Leader Needs to Know

      Safety should be based on a foundation of caring vs. compliance enforcement. Your employees will appreciate the difference and respond in a much more meaningful and engaged way when they see that you lead in a caring manner. It’s a transformational approach when you invest the time to care about and understand your employees, and respect their emotions and motivations.

      Leading in safety is not an engineering equation—we’re dealing with humans! People are fallible, variable, emotional, etc. and we need to consider and understand that when we oversee work tasks and design and implement new work processes and initiatives.

      Your safety culture is driven by your leaders. Don’t underestimate the positive or negative effect that leadership (at all levels) or lack thereof has on the safety culture of your organization. Your collective leadership owns your safety culture!

      Compliance is only the baseline. Being compliant with OSHA and other standards and regulations does not mean that you have a safe operation. Companies with high-performing safety programs always go above and beyond to manage their injury risks.

      The absence of reported injuries does not automatically correlate to your organization being safe. Is your organization safe or simply lucky? Are there significant injury risks that have not yet manifested into injuries? Or are less severe injuries occurring but not being properly reported? How do you know?

      A low OSHA recordable rate does not mean you have reduced the risk of serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs). Numerous studies have shown there is no statistical correlation between an organization’s low OSHA rate (usually driven by low frequency of minor injuries) and having a low risk of SIFs. Countless companies have had a low OSHA recordable rate, thinking they had an excellent safety program, and then they had one or more fatalities. Therefore, don’t let your guard down if your organization has a low OSHA rate. Make a conscious decision and invest the

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