LEADERSHIP in capital letters: Safety and Health Leadership Guide

Without a doubt, this guide deals with a topic that we are passionate about, although we are aware that it is a complex issue. Today we present guide number 12+1 of good practices in leadership in safety and health, prepared in collaboration with Prevencontrol. In this one, as in the 15 guides we will try to start at the beginning: detailing and explaining what is meant by leadership:

But in our case, we are talking about a very specific leadership, leadership in safety and health, which is different from leadership in a specific area. We believe that health and safety leadership must be established in the company as a value, it must permeate all strata of the organization, in this way it will function as a generator of preventive culture, which makes this leadership a key piece in our desired objective, which is the reduction of accidents.

Something that we believe is very important and that we also reflect in the guide, is that self-assessment that we must carry out if we want to begin or achieve a cultural change through leadership in safety and health, to do this we ask ourselves: How am I as a safety leader? Am I a good safety leader? In this part of the guide we analyze the characteristics that a good security leader must possess:

We talk in this section of the guide (as it could not be otherwise) about Daniel Goleman, the father of leadership, we only include a definition here due to its relevance. Of all the types of leadership we need to look for the resonant leader, but what is that? We are familiar with the term resonance due to the general culture of science, but let's specify:

For Daniel Goleman, a leader is resonant when he manages to involve people at all levels of the organization, so that each action he takes is transferred to the entire organization and beyond. The consequence of its action implies a reaction that is not linear, but rather its radius is multiplied exponentially.

As we do not want to reveal anything else about this fantastic guide, which we encourage you to download in our online classroom, we will only tell you that the central core of this manual describes successful examples that we can implement to achieve effective leadership. Additionally, we will address visible commitment, operational discipline, communication and participation. An image serves as a summary:

All our guides have the same structure:

• A brief introduction where the guide is put into place.
• A presentation and objectives section that reflects what is intended with this guide and the target audience.
• Central part with the different chapters, within which practical and accessible content will be included for all people who follow the guide.Each chapter includes:
  • Introduction.
  • Summary associated with the chapter.
  • Conclusions.
  • Final reflection questions.
  • Solutions.
• Final section with bibliography.  

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At Fraternidad-Muprespa we hope that these guides are of interest to our mutual members, meet their expectations by predominating practical cases and help to strengthen the necessary preventive knowledge, as well as the implementation of preventive measures that can be effectively transferred to the workplace, thus guaranteeing the safety, health and well-being of the employees. workers.