The Wellbeing Imperative: How Thriving People Drive High Performance.
For the people who run maritime, mining, energy and offshore operations, and for anyone tired of defending an engagement score to a board.
The Wellbeing Imperative: How Thriving People Drive High Performance.
For the people who run maritime, mining, energy and offshore operations, and for anyone tired of defending an engagement score to a board.
The Wellbeing Imperative: How Thriving People Drive High Performance.
For the people who run maritime, mining, energy and offshore operations, and for anyone tired of defending an engagement score to a board.
THE ARGUMENT
Research across 3.2 trillion worker hours found recordable injuries are 96 to 98 per cent random, and TRIR shows no correlation with fatality rates. A clean scorecard does not mean a safe operation.
Apps, webinars and resilience training are the psychosocial equivalent of handing out PPE. Elimination and engineering come first for every other hazard; this book applies the same discipline to the conditions of work.
Fatigue, workload, role clarity and trust in leadership are not welfare issues sitting beside operations. They are the operating conditions of the plant, the vessel and the site.
WHAT IS INSIDE
The hierarchy of controls, applied to psychosocial risk.
Why injury rates are statistically invalid at most organisational scales.
Where resilience training actually belongs.
The Six Drivers of Wellbeing as control measures, mapped to ISO 45003.
What happens in an organisation when nobody responds to a raised hand.
ENDORSEMENTS
“Grounded in science yet deeply human in orientation, this book challenges leaders to move beyond viewing wellbeing as a peripheral initiative or compliance exercise ... this book arrives not a moment too soon.”
Sidney Dekker
Professor, Griffith University
“It takes the idea of wellbeing to the system level, leaving the reader in no doubt that thriving humans are not a cost to organisational performance—they are a driver!”
Ben Pronk DSC
Former Commanding Officer, Australian SAS Regiment; co-author of The Resilience Shield
“He powerfully demonstrates that wellbeing is not optional, but rather the foundation of safety and performance ... essential reading for leaders across our industry.”
Duncan Bond
Chief Commercial Officer, Berge Bulk Shipping
“Ian Collins delivers a powerful message: if we want to improve human performance, we must first improve the environment in which people work.”
Capt. Pantelis Patsoulis
QHSE and Marine Assurance Manager, Anglo-Eastern Ship Management
“A searingly honest look at the human cost of the ‘relentless output’ culture ... It’s not just a book; it’s a manual for operational excellence.”
Noela Paragiou
Crew and Training Manager, Navios Maritime Partners
“The environment we create for people is not something separate from the work. It is what makes the work happen reliably ... A book that will stay with you.”
José Almeida
Head of Corporate Safety and Security, Galp
“It challenges the outdated mindset that high performance comes from simply working longer and harder until people burn out ... when people are well, organisations perform better.”
Josh Hughes
HR Team Lead, Rio Tinto
“Part-personal journey, part-rigorous exploration, this book challenges the deeply held belief that performance comes from pushing harder. It makes a powerful case that true excellence comes from designing systems where people can actually thrive.”
Adam Kent
Head of Project Services, Newmont Corporation
“With an ever-increasing focus on psychosocial safety, this is an exceptionally useful and timely volume. Highly recommended.”
Clive Lloyd
Author of Next Generation Safety Leadership
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Founder and managing director of Wellbeing Daily. Twenty years across more than fifty countries in oil and gas, mining, maritime and construction, from roustabout offshore Western Australia to advising operators on psychosocial risk.
His work draws on Human and Organisational Performance (HOP), behavioural science and wellbeing design, and treats wellbeing not as an HR initiative but as performance infrastructure. His consulting, training and diagnostic tools have been adopted by organisations across six continents.
In 2018 he experienced his own collapse into burnout. That journey, from depletion to recovery to a fundamentally different way of working, inspired The Wellbeing Imperative. He is based in Singapore.
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