Keynote speaking

Looking for an engaging speaker for your safety event? Whether locally in Singapore, overseas or through online platforms,  we cater to your needs.

We cover topics ranging from leadership, culture change to safety psychology.

Some feedback we have received:

  • “Boon kept the audience on the edge of their seats with his engaging and insightful talk. Two thumbs up!”
  • “Funny and authentic. Easily one of the best!” 
  • “Boon’s speech resonated with the audience. He helped us kick off our Safety Day with a bang.”
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STEP stands for Safety Transformation and Engagement Plan.

Changing a safety culture is challenging. That’s because an organization culture—which safety culture is a subset of—comprises a set of shared beliefs which have worked so well that they are taken for granted. This explains why relying on an activity, such as management walkabout, engagement surveys or incentive schemes may appear to make progress for a while, but eventually lose steam against the deep-seated culture beliefs.

Changing culture requires a multi-pronged approach, starting with demonstrating leadership, followed by aligning the system and applying change techniques. 

The STEP program comprises of a series of surveys, training and discussions on:

  • Take pulse of safety
  • Paint picture of future
  • Understand the concepts of culture change
  • Framework of STEP
  • Develop STEP plan
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  • An interactive 2-day workshop for 10-20 people.

  • Key selling point: Practical and Evidenced-based 

  • The key issue with safety leadership training is that they tend to be theoretical in nature. As a result, participants are unable and unmotivated to change their behaviour outside the classroom. 
  • Practicality→ Design by a safety practitioner, this workshop is light on concepts and heavy on implementation. It is an interactive session with videos, reflection and scenario-based activities. We can also provide coaching sessions after the workshop to help participants operationalize their learnings. 
  • Evidence-based→ The concepts taught are based on the Transformation Leadership model, which is the most well-researched model currently. 
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Interactive activities
Video of a transformational leader
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coaching

Heartfelt coaching for safety intervention

“If you notice anything unsafe, please intervene.” Most companies espouse this policy, but far fewer translate this to real life. Studies has found that even though most of the workers understand the importance of intervention, only 40% do so in their workplace. The number one reason given—the concern that the other person would become defensive or angry.

The two-day interactive workshop covers:

  • Why employees don’t intervene unsafe act?
  • Why is it easy to fault find?
  • The importance of seeking first to understand, then be understood
  • The BASIS framework for coaching
  • Role-playing according to customized context
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Group work - Understand inducing factors for unsafe act
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Psychology of Change in Safety

  • “I’ve always done it this way.”
  • “It’s only for a short while, nothing will happen.”
  • “Don’t worry, I’ve always been very careful.”

When employees display the attitude above, how do you change them?

The traditional approach of TAMER (Train–Advise–Monitor–Enforce–Reward) only bring you so far. They either don’t address motivation gaps or only achieve temporarily compliance. Changing attitude requires an understanding of how people think and act. While we have different personalities, we behave predictably and consistently in many situations. Rooted in psychology, the “7 toolkits” helps you to change attitude using a simple and evidence-based approach.

The two-day interactive workshop covers:

  • Limitations of TAMER tool
  • The psychology of change
  • Gap between current practice and science
  • Seven techniques that unlock intrinsic motivation
  • Application in safety
Current practices to change mindsets
Understanding the Psychology of Change
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Culture Assessment

Assessing the safety culture of an organisation can reveal the current status and identify insight into areas for improvement. We offer two ways to carry out such an assessment:  

   1. Safety Climate Survey

Safety Climate comprise the attitude and perceptions towards safety at a specific point in time. It is often seen as a proxy to safety culture. Bing quantifiable, a climate survey allows an organization to compare survey results over time against improvement strategies. 

Sample survey results
Model for Survey
Safety Culture Maturity Model

2. Safety Culture assessment

Culture exists at an unconscious level among a group of people. To surface that shared beliefs, a focus group discussion is the most accurate and insightful. It involves gathering employees together in the presence of a facilitator to discuss about the artefacts, espoused values and shared beliefs, which are based on the culture model developed by Edgar Schein.

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