SÄKU Conference 2024, 4-5/6

During 4-5 June, 60+ participants were part of the second ever SÄKU Conference! Just as 2023, the conference took place at beautiful Högberga gård, just outside of Stockholm.

This time, our distinguished guest was Clive Lloyd, recognized as one of the top 5 global thought leaders and influencers in Health and Safety!

In 2021 Clive held a much appreciated webinar at SÄKU. View the recording/presentation of the webinar HERE.

The conference was highly interactive, social and held in English. Each participant received a special leadership workbook along with Clive's best-selling book, "Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Care" featuring a unique SÄKU Conference 2024 cover. Participants also got a SÄKU writing pad and pen.

Clive's sessions consisted of:

Compliance to Care: The ‘what’ and the ‘why’

• What is ‘compliance to care’, and why is making the journey so important?

• A summary of key research findings into predictors of cultural maturity and safety performance

• Self-fulfilling prophecies in safety: The Trust and Fear loops

• The Cobra Effect (the law of unintended consequences) in health and safety

• Distinguishing between blame and accountability

• The links between trust, psychological safety, physical and psychosocial safety and wellness

Compliance to Care: The ‘how’

• Psychological tools of influence leaders can master to help them create a climate in which trust and psychological safety emerge

• Beyond behaviourism: How to create engaged and accountable teams without needing a stick or carrot

• Learning how to do safety WITH work teams, rather than TO them

• Tools that help leaders make it safe to share ‘bad news’

• Parent, Adult and Child Ego States: Transactional Analysis in the workplace

Apart from Clive's sessions, the participants also got a chance to join a mingle boat ride and have nice lunches, dinners and fikas. This in order to get to know one another more, making it easier to continue sharing and evolving together "post-conference", regardless of sector or industry.

The conference ended with a panel discussion moderated by Bas Vennix (Stora Enso), featuring Clive, Micael Andersson (Sandvik), Arnida Mohd (Hitachi Energy), Jenny Angseryd (Bonava) and Per Renman (Boliden).

It was an interactive discussion where the audience got to ask the panel questions as well as answering seven Mentimeter questions that the panel then discussed. Have a look at the questions and result a little further down.

A great many thanks to everyone who joined us!

Scroll down to find material and photos from the conference.

See you at the next SÄKU Conference in 2025!

Further reading/watching recommended by Clive

The books that Clive mentioned during the sessions were (in the order they were mentioned):

• “Thinking, Fast and Slow” (2011) – Daniel Kahneman

• “Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability” (2012, 2nd edition) – Sidney Dekker

• “Paper Safe: The triumph of bureaucracy in safety management” (2018) – Gregory Smith

• “Do Safety Differently” (2022) – Sidney Dekker & Todd Conklin

• “Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling” (2013) – Edgar H Schein

• “The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth” (2018) – Amy C. Edmondson

• “Man's Search for Meaning” (1946) – Viktor Frankl

• “Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships” (1964) – Eric Berne

The 2024 research paper Clive mentioned during the session Day 1 was:

• “Trust and distrust in safety leadership: Qualities of importance” (2024) – Natalie Abiodun (published in volume 176 in Safety Science)

• You can find it here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925753524001437

Clive recommended everyone to watch Drew Raes session at the EHS Congress 2024 in Berlin. It’s 20 minutes long and starts at 4:00:00 in the video recording below. At circa 4:41:00 in the same video recording, Clive is also featured with a presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hg4rR9atU4

Results from the Mentimeter questions from the panel discussion

Below are the seven questions asked to the audience and discussed by the panel. Please feel free to use the questions as a conversation starter in your own team/organization.

Contact information

If you want to get in contact with Clive, please email him at info@gystconsulting.com and visit www.gystconsulting.com.au for more information and material.

Photo gallery

About Clive Lloyd

Clive F. Lloyd is an Australian Psychologist specialising in Safety Leadership and Culture development. He was recently named among the top 5 Global thought leaders and influencers on Health and Safety by Thinkers360. He is co-owner of, and Principal Consultant with GYST Consulting Pty Ltd and developer of the acclaimed Care Factor Program. Clive has spent the last 20 years assisting organisations to improve their safety performance by developing trust and psychological safety and doing Safety Differently. He has worked with global mining, oil & gas, construction and utilities companies in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, USA, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Singapore, China, UAE, PNG, KSA, the United Kingdom and Costa Rica. He is the author of “Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Care”. Clive’s background is in clinical and coaching psychology. He has over 30 years of coaching experience working with people in all levels of management and leadership roles (from the boardroom to the shop floor).