Tim Page-Bottorff
Senior Consultant
SafeStart
Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Improving Safety Outcomes With Teamwork
A popular thought experiment for safety professionals is debating which safety theory works best. But when it comes to implementation, only one thing matters: ensuring everyone goes home safe and stays safe at home. And there’s good news—you’re not alone. Safety is a goal best achieved with teamwork.
As Tim Page-Bottorff says, “compromise can happen without losing your passion for what you love or believe in.” It starts with your people and human factors. Ambiguity, fear, frustration and other states of mind flourish in spaces of conflict and isolation. Folks left to their own devices in a work culture that doesn’t prioritize clear communication and personal commitment are unlikely to receive the information and context they need to avoid danger. And they’re not sharing their own first-hand safety knowledge to improve the organization either. The key to alignment requires workers and supervisors to stop, collaborate and listen.
This session is about turning a bunch of individuals into a proper team. It establishes a connection between people and technical systems and introduces a key communication tool to jumpstart collaboration between managers and workers. Learn to employ leadership skills that can improve your safety culture and see how collaboration makes safety happen!
Tim is an inspirational certified safety professional who brings over 20 years of occupational health, safety and environmental experience.
He is an author, a highly motivating speaker, and one of the most sought-after consultants in the industry due to the humor and contagious enthusiasm that make his sessions engaging and memorable. He has received the coveted ASSP Safety Professional of the Year award and just wrapped up his term as Director-at-Large on their board.