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SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Senior leadership is still a significant driver of health and safety improvement in the workplace. It held its position as third
on the list of health and safety drivers behind caring for employees and compliance.
Approximately 40% of respondents in Proactive and Leading organizations said leaders drive the conversation for
improvement in their workplaces, and 32% of Managing and Reactive respondents said the same. The number dropped to
24% in Start of Journey organizations.
The adage "where attention goes, energy flows" holds true. When senior leaders aren't committed and paying close
attention, health and safety suffers. In Start of Journey and Reactive organizations, just over a third of respondents said that
lack of leadership support was one of the key challenges in implementing health and safety procedures in their workplace.
VS 2021
Lack of employee engagement
52%
+9
Employee turnover/shortages
45%
+7
Internal capabilities/resources
38%
+6
Competing business priorities
31%
-2
Lack of awareness of the benefits
30%
+6
Lack of support across senior management
30%
+5
Costs
26%
+1
Downtime
12%
-
Unionized environment
11%
+1
Challenges Implementing Health & Safety
