Let’s face it, a lot of people don’t like safety professionals.The system for becoming a safety professional is at root of why so many people dislike safety. But there is also great potential for us to transform the safety profession. The main thing missing in the safety profession is the emotional intelligence to do the job. Our current system tends to focus on laws, rules and technical requirements to follow. But this same system is severely lacking when it comes to developing leadership traits.Great safety professionals have a high level of emotional intelligence. Those safety professionals that people can’t stand are typically lacking in this department. These self-awareness skills are what make a great safety professional great at their job.The struggle is that we have to look outside the safety profession to obtain these skills. There is no BCSP certification for self-awareness. However, these skills have been the most beneficial of all in my career.We have to develop ourselves to be the messengers. We can’t give what we don’t have. But if we do continually develop these skills in ourselves, we will come up with our own unique ideas for including them in the work we already do. The more we do this, the more normalcy we will bring to hearing and discussing these concepts. Over time, we will transform our little sandbox in the world. The more of us that do it, the more our profession will transform. Others will see what we are doing and want a piece of it. Wherever you are, you can start this transformation right now. 

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