ABSTRACT
If language helps communicate culture, habits help form it. In the early part of the twenty-first century – some decades after industrial safety had been elevated to board-level concerns – safety psychologists identified that a simple habit, once cultivated, helped put safety concerns at the front of peoples’ minds before they engaged in tasks. It was merely a habit to practise mindfulness about safety. Executive management responded with a strategy to increase mindfulness via a simple habit. Leaders who seed good habits within the organization may be surprised at the life these habits take for themselves. Seeding these habits of mindfulness, by mandating them if necessary, is a powerful way for leaders to signal that they are looking to their employees to engage in something that is important to the organization.
