Electronic Specifier takes INWEDs Make Safety Seen to the women in engineering
Summary
Michelle has also recently taken part in a podcast for Rise Up (helping companies to attract and retain top female talent) on LinkedIn talking about the importance of trust and psychological safety in the workplace. Ideally, it also involves promoting diversity in leadership, providing flexible working arrangements where feasible, and developing and implementing educational programmes and robust in-house policies that uphold these core values. ‘Make safety seen’ is an important initiative which can help women in engineering to feel more inspired, empowered, and experience greater career opportunities in the field that they have chosen. ‘Make safety seen’ to me as a Leader of an Engineering Team, means supporting an environment where people feel comfortable reporting potentially unsafe conditions or ideas for improvement. Signs, posters, and pictures are visual clues that, although they become part of the wallpaper and people think they don’t even notice them anymore, kicks the subconscious into safety mode.