The Worker Engagement Hub

The Worker Engagement Hub is designed with a human-centric approach that aligns with the organizational values and objectives of creating a safe, productive environment where workers are valued as partners. Our strategy centers on the objective of creating a work environment where workers feel like they belong, matter, and are safe to speak up. It's a place where they can do what they love, experience joy and fulfillment in their work, and feel a meaningful connection to the management team. We see workers as partners and solution providers, not merely as problems to be fixed.

We leverage proven principles from neuroscience, positive psychology, and organizational best practices to support continuous improvement across the business. By integrating these elements, we foster a culture of engagement and innovation that not only meets but exceeds performance and safety expectations.


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The WE Hub's Human-centric Approach

The "Human Centric Safety Focus" approach integrates neuroscience, behavioral sciences, and HOP principles to enhance workplace safety beyond compliance. It examines how work environments, policies, and systems shape behaviors and decision-making processes, aiming to align these influences with safety and productivity goals. This method focuses on creating systems that yield positive outcomes such as reduced incidents, higher job satisfaction, and increased engagement. It empowers workers by building self-efficacy through training, effective communication, and supportive leadership.

Increasing Capacity to Fail Safe

Design systems and processes that protect workers even when errors occur, using safety nets and fail-safes to prevent serious injuries and fatalities.

Flawless Execution of Serious Injury and Fatality Processes

Implement stringent controls and continuous monitoring to manage and mitigate high-risk activities effectively.

Identifying and Addressing Barriers

Regularly assess and remove obstacles that hinder effective work execution, whether physical, procedural, or cultural.

Focused on the Process

Empowering workers to build self-efficacy by focusing on the system, enabling them to identify and address the 4D's (dumb, dangerous, difficult, and different). This methodology encourages continuous improvement, applying the hierarchy of controls to their work, fostering ownership, and receiving both intrinsic recognition and extrinsic reinforcers from the system.

Reinforces Recognition and Rewards

Acting as a third-party contractor to manage the entire engagement process between owners, contractors, and subcontractors, creating a seamless and efficient workflow.

Psychological Safety

Develop a work culture that encourages open dialogue, error reporting without fear of retribution, and collaborative problem-solving.

Enhancing Collaboration and Positive Communication

Promote teamwork and open lines of communication across all levels of the organization to improve safety and operational efficiency.

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Components of the WE Hub

Safety Focus

The "Human Centric Safety Focus" approach integrates neuroscience, behavioral sciences, and HOP principles to enhance workplace safety beyond compliance. It examines how work environments, policies, and systems shape behaviors and decision-making processes, aiming to align these influences with safety and productivity goals. This method focuses on creating systems that yield positive outcomes such as reduced incidents, higher job satisfaction, and increased engagement. It empowers workers by building self-efficacy, effective communication loops, supportive leadership, and positive recognition for their efforts.

Our process sets the workers up for success by focusing on these key areas:

  • Increasing the Capacity to Fail Safely
  • Flawless Execution of Serious Injury and Fatality Processes
  • Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Work
  • Focusing on the Processes of Work
  • Reinforce Recognition and Rewards
  • Psychological Safety
  • Enhancing Collaboration and Positive Communication
Productivity Enhancement

Our productivity strategy integrates employees with project benchmarks and daily to weekly objectives, enhancing team collaboration and enabling quick management feedback on workflow issues. Focused on efficient problem-solving and continuous improvement, we capture and report on the 16 constraints, 8 wastes, 5Ss, and the Andon cord process to streamline operations.

  • Increase Identification of Barriers and Constraints
  • Increase Problem-Solving and Innovation
  • Increase Situational Awareness
  • Overcome Victim Stories and Learned Helplessness
  • Capture and Use the Imagination and Ingenuity of the Workforce
Targeted Improvement

Helping employees concentrate on a single critical issue, leading to immediate performance improvements.

Our 8-Step Process:
 
  1. Define the objective.
  2. Capture workers’ attention.
  3. Educate the workforce.
  4. Foster active engagement.
  5. Collect and provide data given insight for continuous improvement.
  6. Implement a system that automatically distributes actionable data, complete with an action tracking component, across the entire organizational chart of the owner and contractors.
  7. Leverage improvements.
  8. Recognize and reward contributors.
Recognition and Rewards

Implementing a comprehensive management approach to reward and recognize employees' contributions, ensuring motivation and alignment towards common goals.

  • Reward Programs
  • Employee Recognition
  • Incentive Structures
  • Celebration Events
Complete Outsource Model

Acting as a third-party contractor to manage the entire engagement process between owners, contractors, and subcontractors, creating a seamless and efficient workflow.

  • Outsourced Engagement Management
  • Customized Solutions
  • Monitoring and Reporting
  • Training and Support
Customize or Combine

Each hub is independently configurable as a standalone package to fill the gaps in your current system or it can be bundled as a complete outsource management system to oversee all engagement efforts.