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The data, collected from more than 59,000 survey participants, indicates that frontline workers have a more negative perception to that of their leaders. This is especially true when it comes to safety across the physical, psychological and social experiences.
In this webinar Dr Brett Solomon, Principal Consultant at Sentis explores the differences in perception and what leaders can do to better understand how frontline workers experience the workplace to support safety, wellbeing and productivity.
You’ll discover:
- The dangers of leadership being out of touch with how frontline employees experience the workplace
- Strategies for leaders to gain insights into the experiences of frontline workers, such as:
o Creating an environment where psychological safety and trust are prioritised
o Committing resources and time to understand the frontline perspective
o Actively soliciting feedback and ideas from employees
o Promoting teamwork and cooperative efforts
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business.
To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
Catch our pre-launch of Sentis’ new book: Leading Positive Safety – Why 86% of Safety Cultures are Negative and How Yours Doesn’t Have to Be.
In this webinar, hear first-hand from the four inspiring leaders featured in Leading Positive Safety, learning from their valuable experience in the field of safety culture and performance across the agriculture, manufacturing and retail sectors.
In this discussion, Craig Wise of Queensland Alumina Limited, Robyn Heap of Lawson Grains, Benny Mathews of Kmart & Target Group and Kirstine Hulse of NZ Product Accelerator, share their insights and brilliant stories on how they cultivate curiosity and care, lead with resilience in the face of adversity and influence positive change throughout their organisations.
In this webinar, attendees you will learn:
- Strategies for leading a vision of active care and curiosity across all levels of an organisation
- Techniques for fostering strong, collaborative relationships between safety leaders and dispersed workforces
- Insights into overcoming negative attitudes about safety and promoting a culture of safety excellence
- Practical approaches for guiding teams through the aftermath of natural disasters while maintaining a vision of care and connection
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
This approach addresses the physical, social and psychological aspects of safety, resulting in an environment that supports each individual to bring the best of themselves to work.
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
Embrace the opportunity to elevate your safety career to new heights. The Positive Safety Community is not just a platform; it’s a movement towards creating safer workplaces worldwide through shared knowledge, innovation and community support.
Sign up today and be part of a community that’s shaping the future of workplace safety. Together, we can lift the bar on global safety practice, one connection, one lesson, and one improvement at a time.
Amidst important discussions around risk assessment, legislation and legal requirements, it's crucial not to lose sight of the ultimate goal: creating healthier and more productive workplaces for our people.
This session is designed for leaders hoping to refine their approach to articulating and enhancing psychosocial safety within their organisations.
Join Anthony Gibbs, CEO, and Dr. Amy Hawkes, Head of Psychology, as they delve into a discussion on psychosocial safety in the workplace.
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
One well-debated way of preventing SIF events is through using historical injury and recordable incidents as a lead metric. During this webinar, our Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Risk Advisory, Alex Fernando, will discuss the results from an in-depth data analysis of a major mining operation, assessing the pros and cons of lead and lag indicators for SIF prevention.
From an analysis of 660 reportable incidents, injuries, and near misses from 2018 to 2023, he will unpack how data analysis led to the improved management of high-risk activities and enhanced safety leadership. This webinar is a must-attend for safety professionals looking to improve their understanding of SIF prevention strategies and the power of applied data analytics.
During this real-world case study, you will learn:
- The impact of reporting of recordable and near miss incidents and the use serious injury or fatality potential (SIFp) events as a metric
- The business case for building capability and capacity in the workforce in critical control management
- The impact of reducing SIF exposure through a learning mindset to critical control assurance by operational leadership
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
In this webinar, we spotlight how social support at work impacts safety outcomes and where it might fall short, affecting your culture and the performance of your employees.
Hear from psychologists, Ben Carnell and Dr Amy Hawkes, about how to enhance your team's experience of safety and why areas with low levels of social support in your organisation are suffering.
During this webinar, we discussed:
- The latest research on the social dynamics of safety
- How the brain interprets social threats and its implications
- Identify and utilise strengths within your safety culture
- How to manage mistakes, reward safe behaviours and consult your employees for better decision-making outcomes
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
Join us for a lively and informative Q&A session with Sentis’ very own panel of workplace psychologists and safety experts. Delve into the latest psychosocial safety updates, hear common challenges and strategies, and learn where you should be focusing your efforts.
Join Ben Carnell, Head of Client Solutions, Dr Amy Hawkes, Head of Psychology, Dr Vanessa Thiele, Positive Safety Specialist and Tia Armit, Organisational Psychologist, helping you to discover:
- Real world examples of how companies are addressing psychosocial safety in the workplace
- Practical advice for implementing and maintaining a positive safety approach
- Unfiltered insights and varying perspectives from our panel of experts
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
These terrible events show us that successfully managing risk and protecting people’s lives doesn’t just involve having robust systems and controls in place.
Equally as important is the influence of leadership, the quality of communication, and the attitudes that drive the way safety is done.
Join Sentis CEO Anthony Gibbs and Dr Vanessa Thiele as they contemplate what happens when culture goes wrong, and how a positive safety approach is necessary to avoid future disasters.
Throughout this webinar we discussed:
- Using positive safety to drive positive change
- Understanding the physical, social and psychological dimensions of safety
- The role of the board in empowering a positive safety approach
- The role of senior leaders in demonstrating commitment to safety
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
Recently, a major utilities company partnered with Sentis to strengthen their approach to the management of high-risk activities through an in-depth review of all incidents, with a particular focus on those that had serious injury or fatality potential (SIFp).
The aim of this review was to improve understanding of incidents and the effectiveness of critical controls in high-risk work, and therefore reduce repeat incidents.
In this webinar, Dr Amy Hawkes, Head of Psychology at Sentis, and Warren Smith, Founder of Incident Analytics, explored:
- Insights and recommendations from a recent project with a major utilities company reviewing more than 650+ incidents
- The categorisation and mis-categorisation of incidents and how organisations can improve their classification process
- Causal factors including unintended operator errors, human error including autopilot and design/maintenance issues
- The system improvements and field exposure strategies to address recurring incidents
- How the utilities organisation at the center of this review has already begun making changes
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
In this webinar, Dr Vanessa Thiele, Learning and Capability Development Specialist, Sentis will host a discussion with Professor Paula Brough, Director, Centre for Work, Organisation & Wellbeing (WOW), Griffith, and Tony Morris, Partner, Ashurst, to explore strategies for organisations to simplify the process of psychosocial safety management, ensuring a safer, healthier and more productive workplace.
In this webinar, gain a deeper understanding of:
- How to practically implement psychosocial safety regulations in your workplace
- The challenges and opportunities your organisation may come across in the implementation process
- Practical tips and tricks from leaders in the fields of legal, safety and psychology
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
Yet according to a recent study, only 12% of leaders rated themselves as highly effective at sharing a safety vision, and almost one in four rated themselves as ineffective.
In this webinar we explored:
- The science of creating an inspiring vision
- How to make a business-wide safety vision relevant to your team's reality
- Common roadblocks to sharing or generating engagement and ownership of a vision
- The steps for sharing a vision that will drive ownership and performance in your team
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
And while we may find ourselves on the road to a ‘new normal’, many organisations still need to navigate change, challenge and uncertainty on a daily basis.
There’s no more important time than now for workers to be able to recognise hazards and make helpful choices around safety.
But with increased distractions at work and at home, such as threats to job security and ambiguity of what’s next, workers are at increased risk of incident and injury.
So, how do you ensure that your people make conscious safe choices every day, even in times of challenge and uncertainty?
In many organisations, workers adopt a ‘tick and flick’ approach to risk assessment tools and processes. This compliance behaviour stems from unhelpful attitudes around the risk assessment process and can be challenging to address.
To shift behaviour, we need to unpack the attitudes leaders and workers have around risk assessment tools and processes.
Only with helpful attitudes and a positive mindset around safety will we see workers truly engage in the risk identification and management process, particularly during challenging periods.
In this webinar, we explored:
- The impact of hindering attitudes towards risk assessments
- The organisational processes that can contribute to unhelpful attitudes within the business
- Strategies and techniques to influence more helpful attitudes
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
According to a recent study of 8,212 participants across heavy industry, 89% of workers report that their leader struggles to display effective recognition for strong safety performance.
In fact, only 1 in 10 workers hold positive perceptions of their leader’s recognising ability. Ineffective recognition can have unintentional consequences and drive unhelpful safety behaviours that put workers at increased risk.
In this webinar we explored:
- The importance of recognition in influencing the behaviour of employees
- The basics of how to recognise others effectively
- The inherent challenges in most reward and recognition systems and how to overcome these
- How to build intrinsic motivation within your team for improved safety performance
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
In a recent survey of safety professionals across Australia and New Zealand, 76% of people reported that the stress associated with the impacts of COVID-19 had negatively affected employee safety in the workplace.
But only 44% had discussed the possible implications and put in place a plan to support their people, beyond their already existing Employee Assistance Programs.
In this webinar we explored:
- The benefits of including resilience as a core component of wellbeing and safety strategies
- A model of resilience that supports employees to thrive in the workplace
- Practical strategies to improve resilience and wellbeing in the workplace
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
In this webinar we explored:
- Why resilience isn't just another buzzword
- The common mistakes organisations make when implementing their safety and wellbeing strategies
- Real-world client and best practice examples of resilience in the workplace
- Dr. Vanessa Thiele's personal resilience journey juggling the Melbourne lockdowns, home-school two kids under eight and working full time
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At Sentis, we approach safety holistically and use our understanding of workplace psychology to help you improve every area of your business. To learn more about how we support organisations to improve their safety culture, visit: https://sentis.com.au/
These infield interactions require leaders to have a mix of technical and interpersonal skills, to be able to coach the workforce to build critical control knowledge, as well as inviting open and collaborative discussions when gaps are identified, or improvement ideas are raised.
In this webinar, we explored:
• The role of the safety leadership within a critical risk management system
• Interpersonal communication strategies for an effective infield critical control verification process
• Understanding and responding to absent or ineffective controls, and
• Encouraging ongoing continuous improvement within the work planning and safety management system
In our latest industry report, we take a closer look into what's working well for the mining sector, along with the biggest opportunity areas for the industry and how this data compares to broader cross-industry benchmarks for safety culture performance.
Download your copy now at sentis.com.au/resources/the-state-of-safety-culture-in-mining-industry-report-2022-edition
Designed with a busy executive's schedule in mind, the Safety Leadership Masterclass is delivered over 12 insightful weeks through engaging, short and digestible modules that can be accessed at any time.
All modules are available on-demand, allowing you to learn at your own pace.
With self-directed learning that has been tailored to your busy schedule, you can complete content as per the schedule, or power through the modules all at once. You can even jump in and out of topics to focus on the areas that are most critical to your development.
Join us today at safetyleadershipmasterclass.com
That's exactly what our expert panellists sat down to explore in our recent webinar How to Become a Safety Culture Change Agent.
Panelists:
• Anthony Gibbs: CEO – Sentis
• David Carter: CEO – Austral Fishers
• Deirdre Lewis: GM HSE – Origin
• Rod Maule: GM Safety and Wellbeing - Australia Post
Watch the full discussion here: https://sentis.com.au/webinars/change-agent
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Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering Zero Incident Process (ZIP) program in 2003, we've empowered more than 400 companies and 165,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
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Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering psychology-based safety programs in 2003, we've empowered more than 400 companies and 165,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
That's exactly what our expert panellists sat down to explore in our recent webinar The State of Safety Culture in Utilities. In this clip, our panellists discuss the risks with taking a punitive approach to incident investigations and how they've tackled this challenge in their businesses.
Panelists:
• Anthony Gibbs: CEO – Sentis
• Andrew Varvari: EGM Corporate Services – CS Energy
• Clint Thiel: Head of SHEQ – Veolia Australia and New Zealand
• Kenan Hibberd: Executive Manager - People, Culture and Safety – Unitywater
Watch the full discussion here: bit.ly/3smcTGu
Access your free copy of The State of Safety Culture in Utilities Industry Report here: bit.ly/3rlnJLR
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Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering Zero Incident Process (ZIP) program in 2003, we've empowered more than 400 companies and 165,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
At Sentis, we see safety as a form of currency. Safety is a way to invest in what’s most important to you and to help you get home to the things, people and experiences you go to work to support in the first place – at Sentis we call these our Personal Big5™.
Every time you choose to act in a safe and productive way, you are also investing in your Personal Big5™. So, what safe choices will you make at work and home today?
Learn more: https://sentis.com.au
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Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering Zero Incident Process (ZIP) program in 2003, we've empowered more than 350 companies and 160,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
ZIP Essentials helps workers to improve their attitudes towards safety and equips teams and leaders with the fundamental language and concepts from Sentis' flagship ZIP program. A mix of independent pre-learning and facilitated small-group application sessions, ZIP Essentials leads to:
• Increased employee focus on safety
• Improved individual responsibility and accountability for safety
• Greater understanding and compliance with existing safety tools and processes
• Improved compliance with safety rules and regulations
• A common language for safety which leads to greater transfer of program concepts into the workplace.
Learn more: https://sentis.com.au/elearning
Request a full demo: https://www.sentis.com.au/contact
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Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering Zero Incident Process (ZIP) program in 2003, we've empowered more than 350 companies and 160,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
Ensure your safety culture goals stay on track with Sentis digital learning experiences. Complement existing and future training, and equip teams and leaders with the knowledge and skills to make more helpful safety choices – anywhere, anytime.
Learn more: https://sentis.com.au/elearning
Request a demo: https://www.sentis.com.au/contact
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Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering Zero Incident Process (ZIP) program in 2003, we've empowered more than 350 companies and 160,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
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Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering Zero Incident Process (ZIP) program in 2003, we've empowered more than 350 companies and 160,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
Find a masterclass near you and learn how to make tangible steps to improve your safety culture on site today: http://www.sentis.com.au/events
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About Sentis
Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering Zero Incident Process (ZIP) program in 2003, we've empowered more than 350 companies and 160,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
In 2016, we embarked on what seemed like an impossible journey to turn the business around. With a strong vision, clear strategy and amazing team to rally behind us, we rose to the challenge.
This is our story.
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Sentis is proud to be recognised 'Company of the Year' in the 2018 Employee Engagement Awards (ANZ). For more information on the awards, visit ee-awards.com
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Offering safety culture assessments, training, coaching and consulting, Sentis helps organisations to break through the safety plateau and achieve positive safety culture change. We equip employees with the knowledge, skills and motivation to make safer choices, each and every day. Since the introduction of our pioneering Zero Incident Process (ZIP) program in 2003, we've empowered more than 300 companies and 150,000 individuals to think differently about safety. Learn more about our approach: https://www.sentis.com.au
Sentis specialises in safety culture measurement and transformation. Regarded as leaders in practical, evidence-based applications, we use proven insights from psychology to drive substantial, lasting improvements in safety culture and performance metrics, as well as overall business impact.
To discover how Sentis can help transform safety culture in your business visit: http://www.sentis.com.au


