Posted By Jez Corfield Dear Colleagues, Has anybody any useful advice or experiences about developing a 'Vision' for Health and Safety? Whilst developing the H&S strategy for the organisation I work at, its clear that I also need to develop some sort of 'vision' so the strategy can be placed in some sort of context for the board members who will ultimately approve it. Essentially a 'road-map' linking longer term (3-6 years) aspirations to the medium term (1-2 years) strategy. I've seen some examples which might just be a starting point, but if anybody has any useful advice, or suggestions, about developing a vision, that would be great. Please feel free to PM me if you prefer. Thanks in advance. Jez

Posted By Kieran J Duignan Jez Congratulations on your willingness to relate health and safety to the potential insights about a 'vision'. 3 questions may be useful: 1. Who do you wish to influence? 2. Whose vision matters most to them? £. What innovative actions are you going to take to relate to their vision(s)?

Posted By martinw Jez keep an eye out for those who propose H&S aims too. Lots do not like the word 'vision' as it seems a bit unchieveable, but there are some good skeletons out there. I came across the one for 2007 - 2010 Hampshire CC Corporate H&S Strategy: http://www3.hants.gov.uk...b-strategy-corporate.htm if for any reason it will not get the page let me know and I will send a copy if you want. Martin

Posted By Jez Corfield Thanks Kieran, good 'flanking' questions for me to consider, very useful, link it to other peoples visions, nice lateral thinking. Martin, the organisation I am working for now is massive, and they love having 'vision' in fact its the first of our strategic leadership behaviours. My approach so far is to sit down and imagine what the organisations H&S should look like in 5 years, the culture, the community, the reputation etc. I am then considering some aspects of the IoD guidance and OHSAS 18001 that can somehow be linked to 'vision' in some way. Its almost like having a 'dreamsheet' for H&S, its then about getting the strategy in place to start the journey. I'd always presumed the strategy was the top of the pile in developing systems, but that is just proving to be a mechanism to achieving the 'vision'. Its straightforward-ish to have the vision of what it could be, but to format that vision and get it down on paper in a good enough format to influence the right people is a real challenge. This could make a good academic paper. Cheers Jez

Posted By Ian G Hutchings Hi A question I often ask senior managers is 'how good would you like to be?' And then, OK, what does this look and feel like? Sometimes people say things like 'we want to be world class', but don't know what it is or what it looks like. These views can be captured on a grid with examples versus a timeline and actions to reach the vision, or goals/objectives. Best wishes Ian