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Safety Culture & Leadership

Building teams and a culture where people go home safe

Behavioural safety, leadership and workplace wellbeing: how to build a safety culture that outperforms and lasts.

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The best controls fail without the right culture behind them. These pieces cover behavioural based safety, building a safety team, mental health at work and the leadership habits that turn safety from a checkbox into how a company actually operates.

7 Articles

safety-culture-leadership 6 min read

Building a Sustainable Business Starts With You

Your business can never be healthier than you are. The four pillars of founder sustainability: body, mind, relationships and a clear sense of purpose.

Gavin Coyle
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Why Your First Three Hires Matter More Than You Think

Your first three hires set the culture, the quality and the reputation of a construction business. Why the project manager, craftsman and admin come first.

Gavin Coyle
safety-culture-leadership 5 min read

How to Build a High-Performing Safety Team

What separates a high-performing safety team from a merely compliant one? The five traits that matter, and a practical plan to build one and keep it that way.

Gavin Coyle
safety-culture-leadership 3 min read

A Positive Safety Culture: What Does That Look Like?

A positive safety culture is lived, not just talked about. The characteristics that define one, the benefits it brings, and how to build and sustain it.

Gavin Coyle
safety-culture-leadership 3 min read

The Concept of Behavioural Based Safety

Behavioural based safety works by shaping the habits people bring to the job. A plain look at the seven principles and the ABC model, with a real example.

Gavin Coyle
safety-culture-leadership 4 min read

Mental Health in the Workplace

Workplace safety often overlooks the operator's mind. The billions lost to poor mental health each year, and a 4R system for supporting people at work.

Gavin Coyle
safety-culture-leadership 3 min read

More Women in Health and Safety

Women are winning more diverse roles at work, but health and safety leadership still lags. Why the field needs more women, and the role of mentoring.

Gavin Coyle

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a positive safety culture?

A positive safety culture is the shared set of habits, expectations and leadership behaviours that keep safety front of mind when nobody is watching. It shows up in the way near-misses are reported, in how supervisors coach on site, and in whether people feel able to stop work when something looks wrong.

What is behavioural based safety (BBS)?

Behavioural based safety is a structured way of observing and reinforcing safe work behaviours on the frontline. Done well, it uses trained peer observers, an ABC (antecedent-behaviour-consequence) model and short feedback loops to shift habits without turning safety into a paperwork exercise.

How do we measure safety culture?

The most reliable measures combine perception surveys, leading indicators (near-miss reporting rates, close-out times, toolbox talk quality) and lagging indicators (RIDDOR-reportable incidents, lost-time frequency). Our Safety Culture Survey provides a benchmarked read against comparable employers.

People first, always

“Putting People First” is not a slogan for us. It is how Coyle Group has built safety teams for over 25 years.