By Hillary
Bennett, Partner Leading Safety, NZ
- Forestry is consistently ranked among the world's most
dangerous occupations. In New Zealand, forestry has a fatality rate of 16.58
deaths per 100,000 workers recording the highest fatality rate of any industry.
To make forestry work safer the focus has traditionally been on observations,
audits, and approved codes of practices and learning from accidents and
incidents.
- This presentation will focus on sharing the insights gained
from worker-focused, facilitated conversations with harvesting crews and
logging transport workers to explore what is necessary for things to go right
and the adaptations needed to do difficult work well. The conversations used
Everyday Learning Team methodology to explore how the work of a logging
(harvesting) and a logging distribution operation goes well despite the
difficult conditions under which the work is done. The conversations were based
on the premise that the only way to become better is pay attention to what
happens when it goes well and to use these insights to improve how this is
done.
- Understanding the work practices that support difficult work
to go well, gained from the insights of the Everyday Learning Teams, have
been used to build capacity and support better work practices across the
forestry industry.
Presentation from IWISC-1: 1st International Workshop on Incremental Safety Culture held on 24 June in Copenhagen.
