Talking Health, Safety and Wellbeing (3^rd Ed.) Building an Empowering Culture in a Post-COVID World

The book considers what makes an excellent face-to-face health and safety contact in the workplace, and why these contacts are a fundamental building block of any strong, caring, and empowering workplace culture. It stresses the vital importance of inquiry, empathy, and analysis in understanding what employees need to mitigate risk factors around safety and mental health.

This revised and updated edition includes empowering methodologies that directly address mental health and well-being issues and the challenges organisations face in a post COVID19 era. The reader will gain an understanding of the day-to-day mechanisms of why ?culture is king? and how everyone contributes every-day to this truism. This book covers how interactions regarding leadership and teamwork directly lead to the amount of human error and fallibility an organisation can expect to need to manage, and how taking proactive, analytical, and empowering approaches to safety and health is key to identifying and mitigating risks.

Talking Health, Safety and Wellbeing explains why it is so important to talk about health and safety issues proactively. Written in an accessible and engaging manner, this book is an ideal read for any frontline supervisor, HR manager, mental health first aider, safety rep, or company director.

Preface; Two Stories and a Case Study by Way of Introduction; Introduction; Section I: A Little Theory; Chapter 1: Why Bother?; Chapter 2: Safety and Health Excellence (Is Just Excellence); Section II:Safety and Health Contacts; Chapter 3: Introduce Yourself and Set the Tone; Chapter 4: Analysis; Chapter 5: Coaching; Chapter 6: Eliciting a Promise (?); Chapter 7: Close Out; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Final Checklist; Appendix 2: Suggested Basic Seven-Items Checklist; References and Further Reading

Tim Marsh is considered a world authority on behavioural safety and has worked with over 500 companies worldwide including Shell, Pfizer, and BBC. He has delivered dozens of keynote talks all around the world and written several books and hundreds of articles.