In today's episode, Dr. Ayers discusses why not to lose emotional control. Yelling and threats do not build a safety culture and will stop employees from bringing proactive hazard reduction/elimination solutions forward.
The Occupational Safety Leadership Podcast
Episode 171 - Occupational Safety - Don't lose emotional control
Welcome to the Occupational Safety Leadership Podcast, episode number 171. In today's episode, we're going to make this real short and sweet, and we're just going to talk about don't lose emotional control. As safety professionals, we have to be level-headed, cool, calm, and collective. All that stuff then, anytime that we yell, scream, threaten any of that stuff, what we're doing is creating a culture of fear. And the fear is you do it or else, and you can make progress that way. So I'm not going to tell you that you can't, but the progress that you're making is people are only doing it because they're scared of you. The second that you're gone, they won't get caught, maybe you're tackling a couple of different sites or something, they're going to do whatever they want to do. And sometimes we know from human nature that some people will literally do a FU, I'm not following it, he's not here, he's not, and of course I say he because for the most part it appears to be men who lose a lot of emotional control. So do everything you can, focus on the culture, cool, calm, collective. Also, if you're frustrated, you're angry in things, think about how you are communicating to your people, are you giving them clear communication, are you giving them really good information, or are you saying things like you better not do it or else. That doesn't mean that we're not all thinking it of course, but what has to come from us is these are the reasons why we don't do this activity this way. So today's episode's over, nice, short, and sweet. This was one that I saw a safety professional really get angry and the only thing that I could think is he's probably set back the culture years because now people in a proactive way probably won't bring things over to you because if you're just going to be angry and yell at people and tell them how they're wrong and everything else, well they're just going to sit back and do what they're going to do. So episode 171 is complete, I want to thank everybody for joining me today and I can't stress enough, you have to be the voice of reason, that doesn't mean that you have to be weak and timid, but you have to be the voice of reason, cool, calm, collective. Thank you for joining me, my name is Dr. David Ayers, have a safe day.
In today’s episode, Dr. Ayers discusses why not to lose emotional controls. Yelling and threats do not build a safety culture and will stop employees from bringing proactive hazard reduction/elimination solutions forward.