Safety Discipleship

About the Book

The Safety Discipleship Handbook for Workers transforms traditional safety manuals into a personal mission, grounding every procedure in the dreams and goals that drive each individual on the job. Rather than treating rules as mere checkboxes, it invites workers to align their aspirations—providing for family, achieving career milestones, and protecting their future—with active engagement in safety through the “Safety Discipleship” mindset. From the foundational contrast between compliance and commitment to the practical STAR process (Stop, Think, Act, Review), the handbook delivers clear tools—Life-Saving Briefings, Performance Influencing Factors, and two-way communication frameworks—that empower frontline teams to own their safety every day.

Emphasizing continuous capacity building and sustainability, it guides readers through reflective exercises and structured workflows to internalize Life-Saving Rules (e.g., Working at Heights, Energy Isolation) and foster a culture where every worker becomes both guardian and advocate of their own well-being. Anchored in real-world examples and proven human-factors research, this handbook equips you to safeguard not just your physical health, but the very dreams that give your work purpose.

About the Author

Andrew has dedicated 36 years of his life to a single organisation within the high-stakes world of Oil & Gas, steadily rising through the ranks from a Trainee Process Technician to his final role as Safety, Security, Health and Environment (SSHE) Manager. His journey is one of commitment, evolution, and deep-rooted purpose.

Throughout his career, Andrew has seen the safety landscape shift through various systems and frameworks. From traditional safety protocols to comprehensive company-wide programs, he has lived through—and led—initiatives designed to prevent injury, protect lives, and cultivate harm-free workplaces. While these systems often differed in form, their essence remained the same: to keep people safe in high-risk environments.

In his final years of service, Andrew played a pivotal role in deploying a groundbreaking safety initiative—the Personal Safety Management System. This system shifted the focus from reducing Total Recordable Injury Rates to the prevention of Life-Altering Injuries and Fatalities, particularly those impacting contractors in high-risk activities. What captivated Andrew was the system's emphasis on real-time engagement, behavioural safeguards, and a powerful human-centred shift in safety philosophy.

Andrew spent nearly eight months immersing himself in the system, not only deploying it, but deeply internalising its principles. The system's call for supervisors to engage teams in meaningful, moment-to-moment safety conversations, and to build capacity from the ground up, resonated with him. Yet, he felt something more profound could be added.