Dwayne Rae
Having worked with the executive and management level of today's oil and gas companies around the world I bring about discussions on leadership and safety and the consequences of when "we as leaders...fail to lead".
I literally fell off a mountain in logging operations during a mudslide in 1993 in Northern British Columbia due to making poor decisions. Those decisions still bare scars today both mentally and physically...the president of the company i worked for at the time came to me in my hospital bed and told me that he would not let me kill myself on his watch.
Norman offered to send me to safety training and keep me employed if i agreed. I acted as a company safety manager for his company until his untimely death due to poor pre-job planning that i was involved in. I walked a cold and wet rocky beach on feb 12 1995 searching for his body after he was swept under the seas in a freak storm...we never found his body.
I had to then inform his family that he was never coming home...i had to tell his wife and sons that he was gone...terribly and sadly...this man was my father. Norman James Rae, my father came to me after i almost killed myself working for his company and said he would fire me from the family business to prevent my death...and i couldn't do enough to stop him from making his own poor decisions the day he drowned.
I understood not long after my dad's passing that i needed to understand why people make the decisions they do with respects to at-risk behaviour and then gain a better understanding on how to properly influence people and cultures to "want-to" change and work safely.
I have spent the last several years travelling around the world sharing the message of culture creation and changing people's attitudes. From these talks my consultancy has also held workshops on workplace communication (or lack of it) and how to make sound responsible business decision bringing the four cornerstones of money, production, time and safety into discussions.
Having worked with the executive and management level of today's oil and gas companies around the world I bring about discussions on leadership and safety and the consequences of when "we as leaders...fail to lead".
I literally fell off a mountain in logging operations during a mudslide in 1993 in Northern British Columbia due to making poor decisions. Those decisions still bare scars today both mentally and physically...the president of the company i worked for at the time came to me in my hospital bed and told me that he would not let me kill myself on his watch.
Norman offered to send me to safety training and keep me employed if i agreed. I acted as a company safety manager for his company until his untimely death due to poor pre-job planning that i was involved in. I walked a cold and wet rocky beach on feb 12 1995 searching for his body after he was swept under the seas in a freak storm...we never found his body.
I had to then inform his family that he was never coming home...i had to tell his wife and sons that he was gone...terribly and sadly...this man was my father. Norman James Rae, my father came to me after i almost killed myself working for his company and said he would fire me from the family business to prevent my death...and i couldn't do enough to stop him from making his own poor decisions the day he drowned.
I understood not long after my dad's passing that i needed to understand why people make the decisions they do with respects to at-risk behaviour and then gain a better understanding on how to properly influence people and cultures to "want-to" change and work safely.
I have spent the last several years travelling around the world sharing the message of culture creation and changing people's attitudes. From these talks my consultancy has also held workshops on workplace communication (or lack of it) and how to make sound responsible business decision bringing the four cornerstones of money, production, time and safety into discussions.
