Angelica Raducanu, Distributie Oltenia: “Every discussion and meeting within the organization begins with 5 minutes about safety”

“For us, safety is the first concern every day and every moment. It is one of the transformation points that we have deliberately set ourselves two years ago. We understand that cultural transformation, like other transformations, as well as organizational culture, cannot be a one-day job, but will be a continuous effort.

Lack of safety is certainly the most unfavorable result that we can have, especially in the energy sector. A fatality can never be something good, and fatality appears at the moment of lack of safety.

We have set out to analyse things very well, to understand what each one has to do, how we should change the thoughts with which we start the working day. We have made it very clear throughout the organization that the number 1 priority is that each of us must return home to our families safely every day, regardless of our role in the company,” Angelica Raducanu, Chief Administration Officer, Distributie Oltenia said during People Empowering Business Forum organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest.

“After two years, I can tell you that we see colleagues around us who not only value their own mental and physical safety more than before, but have also become ambassadors even outside the organization, within their families and among our business partners.

We are a diverse organization, and within our companies you can find over 100 different functions. This means that we have to take care of each of the roles and people in the organization in the way that the person feels best. Our cultural change system was very complex from the beginning and we were aware of this from the beginning. From tools such as mentoring, coaching, one-on-one discussions, to workshops, field visits and simple and accessible visual materials within the organization, to synthesizing the information into what we now call the 10 rules that save lives and many more. other measures to increase safety.

Every discussion and meeting within the organization begins with 5 minutes about safety, a measure that has completely changed the perspective and which expresses very directly that our main concern is to be safe no matter what the topic of discussion is. All these tools, intensively used in the last two years, help us tell the organization that we are serious about authentic leadership.”