HSE Community Insights - Kim Grady

What are the key trends and opportunities for HSE professionals in 2021? We asked Australia Post’s Head of Group Safety, Wellbeing and Governance, Kim Grady to share some of her learnings. 

• Use a rigorous, evidence-based framework to guide who you partner with in the highly fractured wellness space.
• Capitalise on the many connections you have made during COVID-19. Use these to new relationships to accelerate your plans. Recent events have given you a platform to do things you wouldn’t have had otherwise.
• Get up to speed with the latest technology – it’s advancing rapidly and giving tech-savvy organisations a real edge.

Key capabiliities for HSE professionals 

• Influencing and relationship building is the absolutely key to success. Build trust and repour quickly to understand what’s driving your stakeholders.
• Creativity is an important skill – don’t be limited by compliance and rule-based approaches. Foster creativity to come up with innovative solutions. view things from different perspective.
• Commerciality you need to understand the business strategy, what’s driving the operational leaders and the commercial imperatives of the organization.

HSE trend 2021

Attitudes to wellbeing in the workplace are shifting considerably. “We’re seeing a move from the yoga and fruit bowl approach to wellbeing to a much more holistic view” said Australia Post’s Head of Group Safety, Wellbeing & Governance, Kim Grady. 

Across the HSE community a lot of people talking about the importance of psychological safety. Businesses are placing a priority on creating safe spaces for people to speak up and be themselves at work is very important, but the issue is broader. “Psycho-social risk and tailored approaches to the sorts of risks that might exist in your organisation, through to tackling job design and manager relationships is really important,” says Kim Grady.