The Safety Six

What is The Safety Six?

Initially it was my little ego trip! At a conference I was asked to speak on my approach to Health and Safety and everyting else I cover. On a whim decided to use my surname, CLARKE, as an acronym to focus my thoughts. This has now developed into The Safety Six, six areas on how to embed operational safety excellence:

C - Communication. Runs through everything we do, and remember to talk with people not to or at people; collaborate, debate, discuss, and network to enhance safety.

L - Localism. The people best placed to take operational ownership of safety on the ‘shop floor’ are those who do the job - talk with them - ask ‘what is dodgy about that?’ and empower operators to make local safety based decisons by having pragmatic ways of working and assessing risk.

A - AI; embrace new technologies and ideas.

R - Review and Research. Don’t be precious about anything; change when needed, researching to ensure that safety is evidence based both operationally and academically.

K - Knowledge. Use your knowledge and that of others to achieve better practice; learn and develop.

E - Entrepreneur. The first priority of any business/organisation is to make a profit or surplus. Safety must facilitate entrepreneurship, innovators, and investors.