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Dear all,
I'm currently in the process of carrying out a gap analysis for my company. As part of that I'm going to ask the board of directors to complete a questionnaire regarding their knowledge and understanding of their role and responsibilities in regards to Health and Safety. Can anyone out there help me with a template or questionnaire that you may have used in past?
Many thanks in advance!
Scott
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Be VERY wary, any lack of knowledge on their part is obviously your fault as the resident expert. You should be looking at what is in place compared to what is actually required. You might like to ask them to do a SWOT analysis wrt H&S in the organisation instead.
Bob
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Daniel
You state that you intend to 'ask the board of directors to complete a questionnaire regarding their knowledge and understanding of their role and responsibilities in regards to Health and Safety'.
I'm sure that Bob is wise to encourage caution about the possibility of revealing 'lack of knowledge and understanding' on the part of directors', especially if your emphasis on your own role is as a source of technical information and knowledge.
If, by contrast, you regard your role as one of safety leadership in which you share in the leadership function in your organisation, a questionnaire that enables you to discuss with Directors the relationships between your leadership and theirs, and the leadership of other managers in the company, can serve everyone well.
After all, it's for you to determine to what extent you adopt a traffic warden, lollypop lady or a creative partner's style of safety leadership.
You're welcome to PM me if you'd like to receive a short questionnaire on social leadership about safety, inspired by 'The New Psychology of Leadership', Haslam, Reicher and Platow, Psychology Press, 2011
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ron hunter wrote:I'd start with INDG 417
Hi - I would agree that this document is a good place to start. Having checked on the web it has recently been revised.
I have found holding 1:1s with Directors and asking them what they think about H&S within the company to be very useful. It establishes a two way discussion about your role and theirs.
The most important thing is that you do engage and involve them.
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Thanks for the heads-up Nicola. I wasn't aware of the June revision.
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I have a number of questionnaires which I have used for research, safety climate surveys, etc, which I am happy to provide if you PM me your email address. However, surely it would be more interesting and worthwhile to design your own survey which is specific to your organisation?
Only you know your directors and their underpinning knowledge of h&s. That said, you cannot expect them to have the same level of h&s knowledge as a competent practitioner. Therefore devising a set of questions based on basic health, safety and welfare issues should not be an onerous task. Start with a set of domains which could be selected from principal legislation ie HSWA, MHSWR, RRFSO, etc.
Unlike Bob, I don't foresee any problems in identiying directors lack of knowledge as long as there is a positive outcome from the exercise. As well as the questionnaire is conducted with their approval and support. It could of course be completly confidential via an online survey like Survey Monkey.
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Scott, you do have to approach this carefully, as the advice above says engage with these directors properly, don't get their backs up.
Say maybe that the gap analysis is intended to identify training needs, and that you will provide them with the necessary training/awareness with regard to knowing their corporate responsibilities.
Any idea how they will repond? The response could range from 'excellent idea' to 'eh, we don't need to be lectured to by a safety officer'......
JohnW
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