Andrew Hale’s Mentoring Page
Andrew is the lead mentor in the following areas:
He is also available for a wide range of our consultancy services.
1. Competence analysis.
The basis of all selection and training in safety and health is the analysis of what you are expecting the contribution to be of all the organisation’s staff and workforce, from shop floor and hired-in contractor to the safety professional and the managing director. The skills include organisational and task analysis, allocation of function, specification of safety and health tasks and competences, design of selection and training objectives.
2. Evaluating interventions
Many safety interventions are carried out because they seem like a good idea, or other good companies are doing them - but do they really work? Monitoring and evaluating interventions can help avoid wasted investment and tune interventions to maximum effect. The research skills of literature review, defining objectives, modelling expectations of change processes, defining and collecting performance data and distinguishing true from false effects are needed to do this.
3. Key performance indicators.
What you measure is what you get. Long gone are the days when targets and performance could be measured purely in terms of safety outputs, such as accidents and absence. We need to design performance indicators linked to the inputs to safety improvements and the processes which manage risk control and learning. A balanced set of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and OH&S objectives are the motor for a safety management system, but it needs constant tuning to avoid routinisation and the trap of pursuing the indicator and not the underlying risk control.
4. Management review
High level review of safety management systems and their performance is needed to keep them on track and adapt them to the latest insights in risk control and (proposed) national and international developments in legislation and performance requirements. Skills include: structural review, benchmarking, culture assessment and high level performance indicators.
5. Workplace analysis and optimalisation
Ergonomics has developed a whole toolbox of techniques and knowledge to adapt workplaces to human skills and competences. They range from the diagnostics of workplace and task analysis to skills for design assessment and modification and the use of ergonomic standards and criteria.
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