SAIPEM

LEADERSHIP
IN HEALTH
& SAFETY

WHY DID SAIPEM FEEL

THE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP
IN HEALTH & SAFETY?

Despite the fact that Saipem had good

safety performance, it was recognised
that people had been injured or worse
whilst working for Saipem, and this was
morally unacceptable.
Our CEO was the one who drove this
message, with the thought that some
people have the wrong impression, that
Saipem expects its people to put their
life at risk in order to save time or
money.
This is simply not what is expected, and
our CEO wanted to clarify this.
We also know that 90% of our accidents
are behaviourally related, so we have to
target these behaviours if we want to
achieve the right culture A culture
through which working safely becomes a
constant; working unsafely becomes
unforgivable.

HOW TO ACHIEVE
THE RIGHT CULTURE?
Saipem believes that it is possible to instil
this culture through effective safety
leadership, as its our leaders who build
and shape the culture we have, through
their everyday messages, decisions,
actions, and inactions!
Therefore, Saipem set up a task force
with the aim to create a Leadership in
Health & Safety program tailored to our
own operating realities and challenges,
targeting the leaders who have impact
on the culture of our organisation today.
Saipem researched Leadership in Health
& Safety and developed internally its
own program. A program to touch
minds, but hit the heart!
As part of the program, a workshop
was designed and disseminated with a
top-down strategy throughout the
organisation.
The first Lihs workshops began with the
senior levels of Saipem and were held in
Milan with the Business Units directors
and managers.
They then became sponsors in their own
geographical areas, requesting and
opening each workshop.
And the process continues globally,
through every level of management,
driving, sponsoring, empowering and
supporting the next levels. After
eighteen months over 200 workshops
were organised with more than 3000
participants.
Workshops are delivered by a pool of 20
Saipem HSE Professionals, developed
internally as LiS Workshop Facilitators.

THE LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH

& SAFETY PROCESS
Saipem Leadership in Health & Safety
has been strategically developed from
a corporate level to disseminate
through the entire organization.
The program was initiated from the
very top, with Saipems CEO and
Managing Director playing the role of
catalysts for the project, as they
personally recognized the need for a
cultural change.

to touch every manager within the

organization, by delivering key
messages down to every employee.
This is done in three distinct phases.
Phase 1 Delivery of Leadership
in Health & Safety workshop to all
management levels.

The CEO gained commitment for the

project from his most senior
management levels through a one day
event held in Milan, when the Saipem
Safety Vision was created.
A clearly defined top down approach
enables each level of management to
become safety ambassadors. Giving
sponsorship to the next levels in order

THE AWARDS
Saipem Leadership in Health & Safety and the
Film The Safer, The Better have been
internationally recognized with the following
awards:
Du Pont Safety Award 2008 - Cultural Evolution
International Visual Commutation Association
Silver Award 2008 - Best Practical Training
International Visual Commutation Association
Bronze Award 2008 - Best Script
Rome International Short-Films Festival 2008
Best Industrial Film Safe Work
New York Film and Video Awards 2009
Silver World Medal - Best Director
New York Film and Video Awards 2009
Bronze World Medal - Best Industrial Film
SPE Int. Conference on HSE 2010
Knowledge Sharing Award

Phase 2 - Senior Managers cascading

the key Leadership in Health & Safety
messages to the entire workforce
through high influential events.
Phase 3 - Delivery of the Five Stars
Intervention training tool throughout
the organisation.

MAIN FEATURES OF THE

SAIPEM LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH
& SAFETY WORKSHOP
Saipem Safety Vision.
The Saipem Safety Vision was born
when the CEO called his most senior
leaders in Milan to develop a vision
for Saipems safe future.
It was designed to be a vision specific
to Saipem, and for everyone to
embrace, a target for us all to work
towards.
A vision of a multicultural and frontier
company where we are winners
through a passion for safety.
Safety Leadership Expectations.
Safety leadership expectations are the
backbone of safety leadership in
Saipem.
A set of competencies, what Saipem
expects of its managers and leaders.
Developed through Internal research,
there are 7 main areas of expectation.
Each area has sub elements, totaling
69 specific actions, activities and
behaviours, defining what is expected
of a mature safety leader in Saipem
today.
Safety Leadership Profiler.
The profiler is an online questionnaire
which provides individuals with
personal feedback on their
distribution of focus over the seven
safety leadership expectations.
Each question forces a choice of
preferences, to give a trend of focus
represented in the report. It allows
individuals to develop personal action
plans, targeting areas of improvement
for future self development.

Contact the Leadership in Health &

Safety development team at
lihs@saipem.com

Five Stars Safety Intervention Tool.

Saipem created a simple 5 steps tool
to help our employees intervene
effectively without creating conflict,
both on unsafe acts and to reinforce
safe behaviors.
It is a tool which will be disseminated
throughout the organization to
normalize intervention.
The Film The Safer The Better.
Each of the workshops interactive
learning sessions are prompted by
scenes from the Lihs film. This
intelinked media tool brings strong
messages from the CEO to the target
audience. It reflects Saipem people,
operating environments, and the story
is both engaging and heart hitting.

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LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH & SAFETY

SAIPEM HEALTH & SAFETY VISION

Our commitment for a safer and better future

The safer, the better

Our Vision for Saipem is to be
winners through passion for safety
multicultural company, where thousands are
united by a passion for safety and health
transparent company, where everyone is a
safety leader, everyone speaks up for safety
and everyones voice is heard
frontier company, where people keep safe
and well while working on tasks that range
from the routine to the extreme
innovative company, where safety is a way
of life, not just a procedure
company that is better because it is safer
The safer we become, the more efficient we
become so literally the safer the better.

People, ideas, energy.

Saipem S.p.A. - Via Martiri di Cefalonia, 67 - 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milan - Italy - Tel. +39.02.520.1 - Fax +39.02.520.34617
saipem.com - A subsidiary of Eni S.p.A.
Fur further information about the Leadership in Health & Safety program, please contact the LiS Development Team at lihs@saipem.com