What is Safety Leadership?

​Safety leadership is about ​inspiring and influencing peoples in organizations to embrace safe behavior at work.
The people who inspire and influence others are called safety leaders. Safety leaders embrace safety as a core value for them, and models best safe behavior at work. They follow established safety standards and protocols in the organization.
Safety leaders believe it is important to get work done safely and impress upon others to follow established safety procedures, as they do not want their peers, colleagues and subordinates gets injured while doing work.
Safety leaders provide constructive feedback and suggestions to help organizations to improve work and workplace to be safer. They will report safety issues when they arise and ensure appropriate actions are taken.
Who can be a safety leader? Anyone in the organization who walks the talk in demonstrating safe behaviors. They can be team leaders, frontline supervisors, executives, engineers, middle managers, head of departments, vice presidents, directors, and CEO’s.
In summary, safety Leaders sets a safety standard on themselves before they can inspire and influence others to raise their safety standards.