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JOMC Culture Change Consultants   Your partners in behavioural and cultural change
March 2014 newsletter

Welcome to this month's insight and advice on culture change from JOMC. Against a soggy backdrop of receding UK floodwater it's time to tackle tricky culture change issues. These challenges face organisations large and small alike so check out how Ashland Inc. embraced the task of improving culture at a relatively small site. We also embrace Steve's inner playwright with a Shakespearean return to the cast of Trying to Be Safe Ltd... how will it all end?.

Enjoy our other insightful articles written by the JOMC team, and don't forget to sign up for our FREE and ever-popular Masterclass.

Mark Ormond, managing director of JOMC

Proof smaller organisations gain from culture change

Small fish and big fish staring at one another

There’s a mistaken perception that culture change only benefits big organisations, denying smaller organisations the dramatic improvements it makes to safety, efficiency and quality.

"It’s not true; culture change definitely benefits us" says Stephen Binns, logistics manager at Ashland Inc.’s Bradford site. The site’s 40 employees produce polymers and other specialty ingredients for products in the personal care, construction and oil and gas industries.

"Even though Bradford is a small site we still have a varied mix of people and priorities” agrees Ray Swaddle, UK operations manager.

That means familiar challenges arising from differing attitudes, values and beliefs about safety. In fact, small and large organisations have more in common than you might think when it comes to safety culture change. If anything there’s more at stake when incidents affect a close community with fewer staff.

Read more about how Stephen and his colleagues gain equally impressive results from safety culture change as large organisations »

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