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Make your safety proposals land. Every time.

You carry knowledge that could prevent harm. This guide shows you how to close the gap between what you know and what actually gets decided.

  • All four F.L.O.W.™ elements with real-world OHS examples
  • Reflection questions for your next stakeholder conversation
  • Practical language you can use in your next stakeholder conversation
  • Built on almost 30 years of high-hazard operational experience
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What is inside

Everything you need to prepare a proposal that moves.

Four sections, one for each F.L.O.W.™ element. Each one is practical and connected to the kind of situations OHS professionals actually face.

F - Frame

Reading the room before you walk in

How to map the organisational context, recent history and stakeholder pressures that shape whether your proposal gets a fair hearing.

L - Link

Connecting safety to what leaders actually care about

How to translate your work into the language of operations, finance and strategy without losing the integrity of the safety case.

O - Optimise

Structuring a message for a decision, not a presentation

How to reduce a complex issue to the five things a decision-maker needs to know, without oversimplifying what matters.

W - Work

Building support before the formal meeting

How to map your stakeholder landscape and use conversations, credibility and timing to bring people with you before you need their approval.

Reflection

Questions to use in your own situation

At the end of each section: three questions to apply the thinking to your current challenge. Not abstract. Your actual work.

Who this is for

This guide is for you if:

This will be useful if you:

  • Work in OHS, EHS, health and safety or safety leadership
  • Have strong technical knowledge but sometimes struggle to get it acted on
  • Have had a proposal approved but then watched it quietly disappear
  • Feel that safety is treated as a functional concern rather than a business priority
  • Are preparing for a leadership meeting, budget conversation or site review
  • Want to develop your influence without becoming someone who "plays politics"

This guide is probably not for you if:

  • You are looking for a technical safety management framework
  • You want a compliance or audit tool
  • Your organisation already integrates safety fully into strategic decision-making

Working in process safety or a high-hazard environment?

There is a separate edition of the guide built around the specific challenges of HAZOP, technical risk and process safety influence.

See the Process Safety edition →

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Marieke Bleyenbergh

Marieke Bleyenbergh

Founder, Be Human Be Safe  ·  Chemical Engineer  ·  Former VP Safety at Shell  ·  Almost 30 years high-hazard operations

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