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Safety leadership lessons of the sports legends
Business often looks to sporting champions and great coaches for lessons in inspirational leadership and excellence. The insights they offer can easily extend to the realm of occupational safety and health, where performance gains translate into reduced accidents and ill health.
Join Louis Wustemann and Lawrence Waterman, former head of safety at the Olympic Delivery Authority for the 2012 Olympics, to see what we can learn about maximizing safety performance from the achievements of great players and on-field leaders, such as Lionel Messi, Megan Rapino and Mike Brierly, both as individuals and as team players. Hear about the single minded focus of the best coaches, including Dave Brailsford, Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Sarina Wiegman and Vince Lombardi and their techniques for securing high performance for consistent wins.
In the session you will learn:
- The application of marginal gains theory – valuable when you are not yet world class, but no longer so poorly performing that there is low-hanging fruit.
- The strengths of different leadership styles, including encouragement and leading by example.
- How to adapt Olympic success strategies from the book Will it Make the Boat go Faster.
Louis Wustemann is a writer and editor on sustainability and health and safety. He was previously Head of Regulatory Magazines at LexisNexis UK, publishing IOSH Magazine, Health and Safety at Work magazine and The Environmentalist among other titles. He is a trustee of the One Percent Safer Foundation.
Past President IOSH and former Chair, British Safety Council.
Lawrence has had a long and varied career in occupational hygiene, health and safety, becoming one of the most eminent and influential practitioners. A past president of IOSH, Lawrence is currently Chair of the Board of Governors at The British Safety Council and a visiting Professor in the School of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University.