Enabling
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Guiding
Strategy
Moving from Reactive Safety Work to Proactive Safety of Work.
→ Capacity Assessment
→ Opportunity Diagnosis
→ Strategy Mapping
Revealing the improvement opportunities to measurably enhance your organizational capacities
We provide comprehensive diagnoses of safety improvement opportunities, identification of measurable strategic objectives and development of pragmatic programs of work to capitalize on opportunities. These Strategy services enable your organization to grow the human, organizational and information technology capital that is vital for improving and sustaining business processes towards productivity and safety excellence.
Case Studies
Tronox
A multinational vertically-integrated mining, processing and chemical manufacturing business wanted to understand their organizational capacities to guide, enable and execute work towards safe outcomes. Through a Forge Works partnership, interviews were conducted at 16 operational locations, across six continents and using four languages, and safety management documentation and practices were reviewed. Forge Works assessed the company’s capacities for resilient management and codesigned safety improvement strategies for the organization broadly and for each operating unit specifically.
Serco AsPac
A global organization that supports governments around the world in the delivery of essential public services wanted to understand their organizational capacities to guide, enable and execute work towards safe outcomes across each of their unique contracts. Through a Forge Works partnership, our consultants conducted a series of targeted senior leadership interviews, assessed the established safety management system and deployed the ‘Safety of Work Survey‘ across the respective contracts. Forge Works were able to to provide the company a data driven position on the Forge Work Map which later enabled an effective strategy to be developed.
Essential Energy, WEL Networks and Energy Queensland
A number of independent electricity distributions companies wanted to understand their organizational capacities to guide, enable and execute work towards safe outcomes across their portfolio. Through a Forge Works partnership, our consultants engaged with members of their boards and executives, reviewed safety management system artefacts and conducted interviews with a broad cross-section of the businesses to assess safety management maturity against the Forge Works Map, identify opportunities for improvement and codesign safety improvement strategies.
Transport for NSW
A state transport and roads agency wanted to assess the safety climate and understand their organizational capacities to guide, enable and execute work towards safe outcome in each its subsidiary agencies. Through a Forge Works partnership, our consultants engaged with senior leaders, reviewed safety management system artefacts and facilitated focus group workshops with a broad cross-section of the agencies to assess safety climate and management maturity against the Forge Works Map, identify opportunities for improvement and codesign safety improvement strategies.
RACQ
A diversified motoring and mutual member-owned organization, specializing in road-side assistance, banking and insurance services wanted to understand their organizational capacities to guide, enable and execute work towards safe outcomes across their portfolio. Through a Forge Works partnership, our consultants engaged with members of the board and executives, reviewed safety management system artefacts and conducted interviews with a broad cross-section of the business to assess safety management maturity against the Forge Works Map wand identify opportunities for improvement.
HSV
A newly established independent public sector provider of supply chain, procurement and corporate services to state public health services wanted to align their board and executive team on a vision and strategic objectives for managing health and safety risks in their operations. Through a Forge Works partnership, an executive consultant was deployed to conduct one-on-one discussion with key stakeholders and facilitate an executive workshop to create alignment on a vision, priorities and responsibilities for safety, and to agree on a primary strategic safety improvement objective and the associated stakeholder perspectives.
Newcrest Mining
One of the world’s largest gold mining companies, with mines in four countries, wanted to understand their organizational capacities to guide, enable and execute work towards safe and productive outcomes at their most-productive site. Through a Forge Works partnership, our consultants conducted a series of targeted senior leadership interviews, assessed the established safety management system, deployed the ‘Safety of Work Survey‘ across the site and conducted focus groups with each of the site’s shift teams. Forge Works provided insights into local issues, key improvement opportunities and a detailed strategy to drive change.
Yondr
A global developer and operator of hyperscale datacenters wanted to identify opportunities to improve its safety performance. Through a Forge Works partnership, our consultants conducted a series of targeted senior leadership interviews, and deployed the ‘Safety of Work Survey‘ to understand the lived experience of their teams, evaluate their capacities to guide, enable and execute work and identify the key opportunities to feed into their continuous improvement process.
Abergeldie Complex Infrastructure
A civil engineering contractor delivering projects in the infrastructure, rail and transport, utilities and energy industry sectors in Australia and New Zealand wanted to understand the safety climate in their organization. Through a Forge Works partnership, the ‘Safety of Work Survey‘ was used to assessment their workforce’s perception regarding their organisational capacities for guiding, enabling and executing work to create successful outcomes and enable the safety of work.
Ferrovial Construction
A multinational construction company specializing in the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of transport infrastructure, conservation of infrastructure, facilities and buildings and collection and treatment of waste wanted to conduct a review of their approach to managing health and safety. Through a Forge Works partnership, the ‘Safety of Work Survey‘ was used to conduct an assessment for each of its business units to identify opportunities to grow their organizational capacities for guiding, enabling and executing work to create successful outcomes and enable the safety of work.
