Briefing Note No. 18

Energy Institute Briefing Note No. 18 - Leadership

Recent events across a range of major hazard industries show that there is a need for health and safety to be led from the very top of an organisation. In some organisations, good procedures and management structures appeared on paper to be in place, but on closer examination those at the Board level were found to be either uninterested in health and safety issues, ill-equipped to deal with such issues, believed they had health and safety under control but were measuring the wrong things, or in some other way failed to take a positive lead on safety.