Safety Leadership

Improving a leaders competency in Visual Literacy helps them engage in hazard mitigation, safety program oversight and employee engagement

Visual Literacy Is A Powerful Tool To Help Leaders Take A New Perspective On Their Role In Safety.

It is well understood that leadership plays a pivotal role in the efficacy of your safety program. While leaders may not be at the ‘front line’ of safety, they must have an ability to ‘see safety’ – to understand how visual bias impacts safety programs and how those biases influence not only their operating staff, but also themselves.

By understanding their own Visual literacy gaps, and those of others, leaders can develop a higher degree of empathy for the reality of getting work done safely. They can put themselves ‘in the eyes of the worker’ and learn how every day safety and production activity can be impacted by gaps in what we see. And leaders can also learn how visual literacy gaps can impact their own safety performance in key activities such as incident investigation, the prioritization, planning and execution of corrective actions, safety observations and even how they look at and assess safety data. Leaders must be fully equipped to understand their operating system, its hazards and risks, and how the safety program plays out in the reality of a worker’s experience.

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Visual Literacy can be a powerful tool to help leaders not only learn new skills and address visual gaps – but also:

Influence leaders to engage their staff, communicate more effectively, and develop sensitivity and humility in how they think about operational realities in safety.

Helps leaders ‘get in the eyes of the worker’ and learn how every day safety activities can be impacted by gaps in what we see.

Learn insights into how being visually literate helps keeps us safe 24/7.

Improve Employee Engagement

The Visual Literacy Framework Helps Leaders Overcome Their Visual Biases And Gain A Fresh Perspective On Improving Safety Performance.

Safety Leadership Resources

White Paper - Visual Literacy: A Leadership Competency That Enables Critical Thinking
White paper

Visual Literacy: A Leadership Competency That Enables Critical Thinking

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Blog post

Safety At A Higher Level: How To Advance Safety Leadership To Improve Risk Management

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white paper

Leading Safety By Seeing Safety: A Look At Safety Leadership Through New Eyes

Additional Focus Areas Where Visual Literacy Can Positively Impact Your Safety Efforts

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Incident Investigation
Hazard Identification
Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention

Seeing More Effectively Requires A Systematic Approach

Organizations striving for continuous improvement in their safety results should consider integrating Visual Literacy into their health and safety programs.

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