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4D Safety and Sysmax Limited Announce Knowledge-Sharing Partnership
9th Mar 2021
Aberdeen, Scotland; Guildford, England; Houston, Texas, and Perth, Australia
4D Safety and Sysmax are pleased to announce they have entered into a global knowledge partnership agreement, to create a holistic 21st Century approach to developing the technical and non-technical skills of your leaders and teams. This agreement combines Sysmax’s sector-leading Software as a Service, Compliance and Competency solution with the 4D Safety® and 4D Tracker software and dashboard.
Brett Read, the creator of 4D Safety® and 4D Tracker said, “The failing of the conventional approach to safety is that it focuses on what went wrong and human error instead of developing people and creating the capacity for things to go well.”
Most major accident events happen because the conventional safety approach fails to equip businesses to effectively handle the complex interplay between people and technology in workplaces.
The solution requires the selection and development of people who have the skill and the will to handle this complex interplay of technology and people. 4D Safety® and 4D Tracker is a leadership software and dashboard that drives safety performance to create sustainable enterprise-wide performance. It is based on the Amazon best-selling book: Safety Performance Reimagined, co-authored by Brett Read and Rod Ritchie.
Together, 4D Safety and Sysmax products enable businesses to measure, monitor and develop both technical and non-technical skills and capabilities.
Sysmax CEO Peter McAteer said, “The knowledge-sharing partnership between Sysmax and 4D Safety brings together a tried and tested approach to safety leadership with sector-leading software to provide an industry-leading approach to improve both safety and performance. The successful interplay between technology and people relies on selecting and developing people with the skill and the will to ensure that things go well.”
Sysmax has 20-years of experience in project, risk, and engineering management has enabled the development of a comprehensive cloud-based suite of software products that help clients evaluate competency, improve performance, and deliver compliance across their business. Sysmax tools and processes improve performance and reduce costs.
“Partnering with Sysmax will provide the software solution we need to leverage online technology to provide clients with real time monitoring of safety leadership practices and team performance to align safety performance from the worksite to the Boardroom. When you combine great software with great leadership (the 4th Dimension), you get great performance.” Brett Read, Creator of 4D Safety®.
Evolving thinking in “doing safety differently” has contributed to answering the “what’s missing” question. But there is one more piece that needs further exploration—the “how”.
4D Safety® results from two decades of experience working globally, doing safety differently, and creating leadership-driven safety performance solutions.
Book Released: Safety Performance Reimagined
26th Jan 2021
Perth, Australia
Perth based Safety Leaders Group Directors Brett Read and Rod Ritchie co-author a new book that reimagines how safety should be done. In Safety Performance Reimagined: A 4D Approach to Organizational Performance, the authors share case studies and stories from decades of experience working with companies globally to create sustainable safety performance in high-risk operations.
Safety is a critical performance factor which is ultimately about people. However, the current approach to safety has morphed from an ethical responsibility to keep operational workers safe to a bureaucratic accountability to report up the organization to non-operational people.
Brett Read said, “The failing of the conventional approach to safety is that it focuses on what went wrong and human error instead of developing people and creating the capacity for things to go well. Safety as it is currently practiced fails to equip organisations to effectively handle the complex interplay between people and technology in workplaces.”
Rod Ritchie who currently sits on the Board of two Oil Companies said, “A generation of managers have been taught that they need to live in an environment of chronic unease—constantly concerned about how they ensure that their company operates safely? This is not a healthy or sustainable approach to managing the operational risks in business.”
The solution requires the selection and development of people who have the Skill and the Will to handle this complex interplay of technology and people.
This book highlights the flaws in the current approach to safety and shares a proven leadership-driven safety performance solution. It outlines How leaders can develop their people’s capacity to ensure things go well and create sustainable safety performance.