Section 1: Company Leadership
Moving toward a “Total Safety” model that incorporates the mental and emotional wellness of workers can’t simply be a function of your HR department. To be truly successful, Total Safety requires top leadership in the company to demonstrate commitment to the resilience and mental fitness of employees. There are two major considerations to successfully lead a Total Safety effort: leader modeling, and assessing your business. Leader Modeling Starting at the CEO/President level, the most impactful way to signal the importance of resilience and mental fitness in your workforce is to model the behavior that leads to resilience, and be open with employees about it.
By providing a safe work environment for our employees, Big-D strives to eliminate added stress that could negatively impact mental health. Our culture extends beyond hard hats and safety glasses to take care of our own. We want our Big-D family members, from executives to laborers, to know they can talk openly and safely about any difficulties they may be facing. Together we can find a solution because they are not alone. Big-D also encourages employees to take advantage of their benefits and the 24/7 life assistance program, which offers confidential counseling for them or anyone in their household. We want our employees to feel their best, so they can be their best.
Rob Moore CEO Big-D Construction
Employees at every level who see their leaders model the words and actions that support resilience and mental fitness at work are more likely to follow suit.
Tips for Leader Modeling: • Consider sending regular, brief, video or written messages to all company employees • Share how the stresses of the past year and a half have impacted you personally, and how you empathize with workers at the construction sites given all that they deal with (tight deadlines, never-ending demand for more work, physically tiring work) • Be explicitly clear that you value physical safety as well as mental fitness, sharing your vision for “Total Safety” of all crewmembers at worksites
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