Micro experiments for Health & Safety - Online
Have you ever felt that changing the way health & safety is managed is just too big or hard? Or you just don’t know where to start?
That's where a micro-experiment is useful.
They move you from being frustrated and disempowered, to thinking creatively and planning specific things to do right now.
What is a micro-experiment?
A micro experiment is a way of making a change so small you can start it easily without needing lots of permission and project management, but big enough to learn from and create buy-in for further change.
What happens in each session?
We co-design micro experiments that you can take away and put into practice in your organisation straight away.
We begin by exploring the way we wish our chosen subject would be. We imagine a time when it’s running how we’d like it to, and then think about who is doing what with who, what’s happening and what is not.
We then take different aspects of this desired future, and explore many different ways of bringing it to life, and ways to learn whether it is actually of value.
What does this looks like in practice?
Our recent session on Policies & Procedures began with a discussion about how they are not interesting or engaging, don't reflect what matters the most to people, are time consuming to update, aren't used.... There are so many problems.
We explored how workers could contribute better knowledge, different media to use, and challenging what parts of operations actually needed a procedure in the first place.
By the end of the session, though, we had a set of ideas that are easy to try, with a test for each to assess value. See the image at the top for a micro experiment we created in this session.
How have people found it?
Participants have really enjoyed the discussions, learnt from other participants new ways to understand the topic, and found new ways to create changes in their workplaces.
People are also now trying micro-experiments as a method to create momentum and change in their own organisation.
Our next sessions
These are focused on:
Risk Assessments - how can we move from compliance documents into a tool that helps us to improve the way that work is done?
Policies & Procedures - how can we turn long documents and rules into meaningful prompts that guide the work we do?
Post event response - how can we connect and communicate with our teams following an event, to ensure they have the support they need?
Toolbox talks - how can we create meaningful engagement and participation around the things that matter?
The sessions are online, 90 minutes, and connect you with others to build your understanding of the subject, context and issues.
The sessions are lead by seasoned health & safety innovators Daniel Hummerdal and Rob Cousins. You can also drop us a line if there’s a subject you’d love to have a session run around.