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5Cs for Health and Safety Governance: A Quick Guide
This guide covers the 5Cs—Courage, Capability, Curiosity, Context, and Care—to enhance health and safety governance. Each step includes key actions and questions to foster a safer, more transparent workplace, with supporting images for clarity.
This guide covers the 5Cs—Courage, Capability, Curiosity, Context, and Care—to enhance health and safety governance. Each step includes key actions and questions to foster a safer, more transparent workplace, with supporting images for clarity.
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Step 1 of 5
<h4><strong>Courage</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Acknowledge gaps in knowledge and admit when you don't have answers.</li> <li>Encourage a culture of honesty and transparency.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ask yourself:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Do I create a constructive environment for sharing information?</li> <li>Do I speak up with different perspectives?</li> </ol>

Courage

  • Acknowledge gaps in knowledge and admit when you don't have answers.
  • Encourage a culture of honesty and transparency.

Ask yourself:

  1. Do I create a constructive environment for sharing information?
  2. Do I speak up with different perspectives?
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Step 2 of 5
<h4><strong>Capability</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Continuously develop health and safety knowledge.</li> <li>Seek professional development and diverse advice.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Reflect on:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Recent personal development in health and safety.</li> <li>Whether you understand what makes good health and safety practices.</li> </ol>

Capability

  • Continuously develop health and safety knowledge.
  • Seek professional development and diverse advice.

Reflect on:

  1. Recent personal development in health and safety.
  2. Whether you understand what makes good health and safety practices.
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Step 3 of 5
<h4><strong>Curiosity</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Be curious about the realities of your organization's work.</li> <li>Probe beyond surface-level reports to ensure effectiveness.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Ask:</strong></p> <ol> <li>Do I follow up on reports with genuine curiosity?</li> <li>Do I understand the health and safety implications in core business processes?</li> </ol>

Curiosity

  • Be curious about the realities of your organization's work.
  • Probe beyond surface-level reports to ensure effectiveness.

Ask:

  1. Do I follow up on reports with genuine curiosity?
  2. Do I understand the health and safety implications in core business processes?
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Step 4 of 5
<h4><strong>Context</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Understand internal and external factors affecting the organization.</li> <li>Horizon scan for upcoming impacts and maintain strong networks.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Consider:</strong></p> <ol> <li>External factors influencing health and safety.</li> <li>Day-to-day pressures on front-line workers.</li> </ol>

Context

  • Understand internal and external factors affecting the organization.
  • Horizon scan for upcoming impacts and maintain strong networks.

Consider:

  1. External factors influencing health and safety.
  2. Day-to-day pressures on front-line workers.
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Step 5 of 5
<h4><strong>Care</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Recognize people as the greatest asset and create a trust environment.</li> <li>Show genuine concern for health and safety in culturally appropriate ways.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Reflect:</strong></p> <ol> <li>How do I demonstrate that health and safety is a core organizational value?</li> <li>How are my actions reflecting concern for equitable health and safety outcomes?</li> </ol>

Care

  • Recognize people as the greatest asset and create a trust environment.
  • Show genuine concern for health and safety in culturally appropriate ways.

Reflect:

  1. How do I demonstrate that health and safety is a core organizational value?
  2. How are my actions reflecting concern for equitable health and safety outcomes?