The Importance Of Safety Leadership

“Safety leadership is not that different from any other kind of leadership. It is about setting the example, clarifying expectations, monitoring performance, and holding everyone to account.” Rob Jager (Cheung, 2015).
The term of Safety leadership can be defined as “the process of interaction between leaders and followers, through which leaders can exert their influence on followers to achieve organisational safety goals” (Clarke, 2013).
Leadership is a holistic approach and in organisational context, it has special meaning and duties. Leaders have many things to do in any organisation and in them, safety is an important thing that a good leader has to ensure at all the time. Safety leadership is the responsibility of a manager who has to

At this time, many different organisations are practicing safety efforts in order to meet the modern standards of safety at work. Safety leadership has come into existence as a result of many different experiences and losses which led to the development of safety leadership. This concept of safety leadership is only to ensure safety at work but also to evaluate the safety situation and different factors that are involved in such scenarios (Mullen et al, 2017).
The importance of safety leadership has been recognised in the recent period of time where the safety environment of an organisation has been challenged by a number of factors. The modern times have brought with itself a number of safety issues which could be potentially dangerous if not dealt with proper measures. So, in this regard, various measures as well as programs have been developed to effectively address the issues. The safety leadership is associated with the vital area of an organisation where the safety of employees must be ensured, and rests of the issues come later (Saadati et al,

There is another fact that the safety leadership has been overlooked and due to many incidents, injuries the importance of safety leadership doubled. There are a number of elements in safety leadership and each one of it has its importance and effectiveness. The main components of safety leadership may be;
Effective management: communication is important in all fields of life but in safety leadership the importance of communication is doubled because safety is largely depended upon the effective and timely communication. A good safety leader may be expected to make effective use of communication in the different contexts. A careful use of communication in critical situations in the organisation may substantially reduce the risk of the situation.
Field presence: this is the practice of evaluating and assessing field. The field may be composed of many different materials and appliances. A good safety leader may be able understand different types of situation in the field (Sheehan et al,