This, and Tanias research thread is making my head spin. Is this really a "new" thing.

Jeez, we've been providing things like employee health insurance, EAP, supported return to work for non-work injuries and the like since just about forever. Have a relative die? We'll send flowers. Or killed by a deranged Australian - time off work on pay no questions asked.

"Doing the right thing" has always been the guiding philosophy - do that and you will, by default, comply.

There needs to be a balance between compliance and leading the organizational culture towards a more positive culture.

This does not mean throwing the baby out with the bath water. It's about reviewing what you have in place and see if there are any improvements or changes that need to made. Putting in more leading indicators than lag.

It's also about giving the operations team more accountability and building their capability to manage their own safety performance with HSE acting in the advisory, mentoring and coaching space.

More employee engagement and participation by envolving the employees, letting them take ownership and get on with the job,

A perfect example last week - I discovered an older truck still being driven on the road but it is so old it does not require seat belts to pass its CoF. After a suggestion that the Manager consider H&S legislation in addition to transport legal requirement that vehicle, and 3 others I didn't know about, are now being fitted with the appropriate seat belts.

An excellent example of why a compliance approach is nonsence.

Seat belt laws have been around for nearly 55 years. If this company hasn't got the seat belt message by now they won't have had any other "look after your employees" messages either.

All that has been achieved is a very thin veneer of "safety compliance" has been applied over a rotting carcass of employer attitudes

Gotta be a credit to the fleet manager & maintenance team if the company's still got vehicles that old still on the road :wink: :grin: