1. Change
“There is nothing so difficult as initiating change” Michavelli

2. Audience Attention
20 % Physically asleep

3. Audience Attention 20 % Physically asleep
10 % Physically and mentally asleep

4. Audience Attention 20 % Physically asleep
10 % Physically and mentally asleep
20 % Concentrating

5. Audience Attention 20 % Physically asleep
10 % Physically and mentally asleep
20 % Concentrating
50 % Engaging in sexual fantasies

6. Audience Attention 20 % Physically asleep
10 % Physically and mentally asleep
20 % Concentrating
50 % Engaging in sexual fantasies
Some can give worthwhile feedback and half of you will enjoy yourselves

7. Georg Christoph Licthenstein (1742-1799)
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change, what I can say is that they must change to get better”

8. Background Beliefs Tertiary study-Management of Organisational Change
Organisational Change principles directly applicable to OHS Change
Need technical safety skills (What makes a safety---) and change management skills

9. SAFETY CHANGE KEEP IT SIMPLE
REALITY TEST WITH THE WORKFORCE (MUST WORK IN THE “REAL WORLD”)

10. Change Exciting Relief from boredom Opens new doors
Full of nasty surprises
Hard work
Risk of failure

11. Employees resist change that
Decreases skill requirements
Diminishes personal status
Reduces authority
Disrupts communication
Removes opportunities for social interaction
Reduces personal or job security

12. Organisational Change Principles & Safety Change
Turn to Exercise 1

13. The heart of change (Kotter)
Increase urgency
Build the guiding team
Get the vision right
Communicate for buy-in
Empower action
Create short-term wins

14. The heart of change (Kotter)
Do not let up
Make change stick
WE SEE, WE FEEL, WE CHANGE

15. INITIATING CHANGE
When initiating change remember “People support what they create”