Our vision with the game
Our vision
“The intention of SAFETALK is to create more engagement and motivation to improve the work environment”
Through our many years of practical experience and a large knowledge of the challenges and difficulties that emerge in the daily work, we must acknowledge that theory and practise can be difficult to combine. For many years we have missed a tool that could give the health and safety work more energy and enthusiasm. Create a little more meaning and give employees the motivation to share knowledge and experience with what works well and what could become better, the challenges and the solutions.
We both truly believe that everyone gets out of bed with a desire to act in good conscience – managers seek to be good leaders, and likewise, employees want to fulfil expectations. Everyone is interested in having a good and safe working environment, and also wants to contribute to finding the best solutions to any issues.
With SAFETALK, we want leaders, HSE people and employees to spend their time enhancing safety - and experience improvements. If you continue to do the same, the result will always be the same.
We believe that…
“We can always improve”
"If we become better at sharing knowledge, we can find better solutions together"
“Dialogue can create greater job satisfaction”
"Greater job satisfaction provides increased productivity and a safer workplace"
Meet the people behind the game
Søren Bøge Pedersen
Søren has a background as a master mariner and been working as HSE consultant since 2002. He has taken several educations as process consultant and his expertice lies within safety cultures, safety behaviour, nudging, human factors, and lastly, accident investigations.
Connie Gehrt
Connie has an organisational psychology background (MPO) and has additional experience within working environments, management and processes. She is particularly interested in how leadership, relationships and group behaviour affect the well-being and safety of a workplace.
SAFETALK - Time to think differently
We have developed the dialogue game SAFETALK game because of the lack of reflection and dialogue that many companies, and employees, face in regards to certain challenges. We became curious about how we can keep doing more of the same without getting much better. The question is, how can we improve? And how can we get the employees involved in a more engaging way?
“We have to look at both what works well and what could be improved”
We believe that people handling their own work also know what their challenges entail and have ideas about how to resolve them – both managers and employees. Those who know what goes well, and where you could easily improve. This is where SAFETALK is ideal because you are simply seen, heard, and taken seriously. Conditions everyone appreciates.
“We should listen to those who do the work”
From the beginning, it has been our intention with SAFETALK to create a new context in which people can talk about the unspoken norms that characterise any workplace, as well as to try and explain why people do what they do, the way they do it. You could consider it as a gap analysis of how the work is actually done - and the way you might think the work is done. The shadowland between systems, procedures, KPI’s, rules and the way you see the work being done on a typical Tuesday.
“SAFETALK focuses on human factors”
We have reduced accidents significantly over the years by focusing on technical solutions and establishing safety systems. However, statistics show that the downward curve has flattened. This is where SAFETALK is useful in creating new energy in the safety discussions in our aim to bring the accident curve even further down. It is time for the human factor now. Focus on the people who lead, and the people who do their work, understand their intentions, their terms, and their opportunities for action.
“We have to become better at understanding the intentions, conditions and options of the workers and not the least the challenges they face if we want to reach the next level in health and safety”
- The SAFETALK team