ABSTRACT
Another way to look at the SHE leadership that must be demonstrated by senior management is via the “3 H heart, head, and hands model” shown in Figure 3.1. To be truly effective, leaders must feel commitment to safety, health, and environmental excellence in their hearts, believe it in their heads, and act upon it with their hands. In other words, organizational leaders must hold safety, health, and environmental excellence as a personal value, must have an intellectual and emotional commitment to ensuring a safe workplace, and must take personal action to achieve outstanding SHE performance. A leader’s commitment to SHE excellence must be unwavering and uncompromising, in good times and in bad. It is said that “the only safe ship in a storm is leadership,”4 and this must be true for organizational SHE leadership. Senior management should provide a model for the organization
of living leadership in the SHE area. SHE leaders must practice the seven “Cs” of safety:
◾ Care: Leaders care about people and make SHE a personal and organizational value.
