How good is your health & safety leadership and workforce engagement?

BFFF and other members of the Food and Drink Manufacture Forum (FDMF) have been working hard to develop a range of leadership tools. These are now available on the BFFF website.

We all know that good leadership can have a significant effect on an organisations’ health and safety performance, and that poor leadership can undermine it. There are also many levels in between these two points and as such it is important to understand how well you are performing in this area. The first step you need to take is to recognise your own performance in this area.

The tools include a bite sized activity which takes less than 5 minutes which gives senior leaders (managers, directors, CEO’s) an indication of how well they are performing as a leader of good health & safety practice. This 5- minute assessment tool enable leaders to;

• assess the organisations approach to safety leadership
• assess their own personal health & safety leadership

Should you find this interesting there are some more in depth documents on Leadership self-assessment and Health & Safety worker engagement.

These assessments will provide a baseline for improvement for both. This assessment is not intended to be a measure for all aspects of health and safety performance– it specifically looks at leadership. If you require additional information on the wider health and safety duties and responsibilities of directors and senior managers’, please see the further reading section at the end of this document.

The access the tools, please follow the below link to the BFFF website: https://bfff.co.uk/health-safety/guidance/