role of industry leaders vince ross 37 years of work experience in manufacturing industry, 28 years...

Role of Industry Leaders

• Vince Ross

• 37 years of work experience in manufacturing industry, 28 years of that spent in the Building Material Sector

• Mostly as a Production Manager with management responsibility for the employees who worked for me.

• Last 13 years I have been responsible for the site management, including quality, purchasing, health and safety, environmental issues and all aspects of HR for 55 employees, at our Dewsbury, London, and Ireland factories.


• Vince Ross

1. Visibility

2. Competence

3. Measuring

4. Accident Investigations

5. Ownership


• Vince Ross

• Visible

• Walk the Walk, as well as Talk the Talk• Wear my correct PPE• Ensure the Owners also lead by example• Daily walk the plant • Talk to the men, always prepared to listen• Signage• Be seen and act if things are wrong


• Vince Ross

• Competence

1. Personal

2. Employees


• Vince Ross

• CompetencePersonal • In house Training• Experience Auditing Int /Ext• Specific Accredited External Training • Consultant support• Trade Federation Support• Personal Growth


• Vince Ross

• Competence • Employees

• Tested for Competence i.e. driving, first aid• Standard Operating Procedures• Trade Association Safer By Competence


• Vince Ross

• Measuring• Record every accident by type, cause, injury, work

place and job type in data base• Use the data to make plans and decisions for future• Use the data to see where we have problems• Ask why no near misses or accidents(fixing)


• Vince Ross

• Accident/Near Miss Investigations

• How, using standard forms and in house paperwork• First Aid accidents by supervisors • All LTA and Serious Near misses by ME• Use root cause analysis, Domino Model, Fish Bone Diagrams, the

5 Why’s

• Why • Learn from mistakes, make sure never again• Raise the importance of Near misses• Have paperwork ready for Insurance and HSE investigation


• Vince Ross

• Ownership • Set Standards of what’s expected• Ensure resources are available to deliver that

standard• Use the Daily Audits to monitor, and maintain

standards• Use photographs to remind where we have been

and what is still unsatisfactory• Praise through small payment schemes ideas that

improve the duty everyone has to safety


• Vince Ross

• “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another”

• “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them”

• “A Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way”

• John C Maxwell

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