This is your opportunity to create impactful change to you and your team’s safety performance. To be frank, not all workplaces are prepared to embrace a cultural step change in safety, and I must commend you on considering this opportunity.

To this end, I can see how your people are open for something new and exciting. Therefore, I can understand why my presentation and transformation model may appeal to you creating a more resilient and emotionally connected workforce. The ripple effect which would improve overall safety culture, retention, engagement and the prospect of a personally responsible and accountable workforce.

To create impactful change, your workforce’s buy-in of your safety system is crucial. This would ensure they take full responsibility of the risks they encounter daily in their work tasks.

Therefore, my proposal is to include working with your workforce one-to-one, mentoring safety leaders and chosen personnel as “Safety Champions” and imparting them with the skills that make implementation of a sustainable safety culture long after I’m gone.

Benefits
My understanding is;

• The overarching purpose and value driving this initiative is the continuing reiteration of voluntary operational discipline, across work sites,
• You want to create greater ownership, personal responsibility, and safety buy-in from the work crews,
• You are not looking for quick-fixes or short-term solutions, but want to develop long term operational discipline, a mature safety culture, and an intrinsically motivated workforce providing for their own safety

Change happens from within
My intended legacy is to transform your culture from within. As I believe no outside influence can deliver truly sustainable results without first teaching and mentoring your key personnel in the techniques that maintain a sustainable model well into the future.

My guarantee is if I don’t achieve the results I’ve detailed in this proposal, I would work with you one-on-one… until you do.

Theo’s presentations show managers, supervisors and safety people alike, how to create a mindset in your work crew that transforms your safety culture to immediately reduce incidents and accidents.

You need to create an “emotional connection” to your Core Safety Message. Lip service and rhetoric like “Safety First” slogans are one thing, but it doesn’t create buy-in of your safety systems to the degree that it inspires people to take personal responsibility for their wellbeing.

Using tried and tested psychological concepts, Theo Venter examines why incidents and accidents still happen in your workplace today through his Just Another Day keynote presentation.

He uses his own tragic story as living proof that a fatality lurks just around the corner, waiting silently in the background until someone in the workplace takes a “convenient option” (short-cut). Theo discusses the role of every individual within your organisation in his must-see presentation. Not just for each and every member of your work crew or work team, but for managers and leaders alike.

• “Be” Theo Venter, as you experience what it’s like to remove your bare hands from your gloves.
• “Be” distracted by the voices in your head saying, “DON’T DO IT,” then removing your gloves anyway.
• “Be” amazed at how close Theo is to the mark when he asks the audience, “Have you ever been in that situation too?”

Watch all the hands go up. It will shock you to know how many people are taking risks every day in the workplace and not knowing it.

Theo will make you discover something about yourself you didn’t know. About your innate human nature. That although taking risks is normal and inherent in every human being, you could potentially be the next fatality at your workplace.

That’s why it’s important to talk about it and bring it out in the open. By allowing Theo to share his story, people are impacted in a way that they are reminded of what can go horribly wrong when they take a shortcut.

Learning objectives
If you are looking to create an intrinsically motivated workforce with personal accountability and ownership, and voluntary operational discipline… these are the 6 key lessons out of my presentation.

• Honour the agreement you make...
  The best way to teach personal accountability and ownership in your workplace is to make an agreement, and honour that agreement until the end. The reward is a sense pride and achievement.
   
• Trust and listen to your gut feel
  Chronic unease, intuition, primal nature or limbic brain, regardless of what you call it, it is the key to unlock your Safety Brain. The inbuild superpower that warns us that what we are about to do could end up in a disaster. The secrets on how to unlock that in your workplace are revealed.
   
• Dare to dream about your perfect day
  If you are reminded of your failures and mistakes (incidents TRFRS LTI MTI) every day you become your failures. If you can aspire to experience your perfect day at work, you become motivated by results.
   
• Count your 5 Brave sec down
  The first step of influencing keystone habits, in the heat of the moment those 5 brave seconds lets you reflect and consider your gut feel instead of just getting the job done.
   
• Take a step in the right direction, that could become the biggest leap of your life
  After taking those 5 brave seconds, you make choices that are driven by your “Why”.
   
• Find your “Why”
  The most important key learning of all. Once you've found your “Why”, you can endure any “How”. Those who have a “Why” will know why they need to be safe at work every day. This contributes to an intrinsically motivated workforce with voluntary operational discipline.