LENDLEASE MUMS FOR SAFETY

TitleLENDLEASE MUMS FOR SAFETY
BrandLENDLEASE
Product / ServicePROPERTY
CategoryA11. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) / Corporate Image
EntrantHOUSTON GROUP Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Idea Creation LENDLEASE Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Production IN THE THICKET Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Credits

Name Company Position
Stuart OBrien Houston Group Strategy/Creative Group Head
Alex Toohey Houston Group Exectuive Creative Director
Nellie Blundell Houston Group Head of Copy
Lucy Russell Houston Group Account Director
Paul Principe Houston Group Senior Designer
Tom Lees Houston Group Strategist
Gretel Maltabarow Houston Group Account Director
Nathan Wren Houston Group Animation
Luisa Megale Lendlease Group Head of Corporate Affairs and Marketing
Vicki Halpin Lendlease General Manager - Brand and Production, Corporate Affairs and Marketing
Lynette Elliot Lendlease Chief Marketing Officer Lendlease / Digital, Customer Experience & Product Innovation / Transformation & Communication
Dawid Sobczyk Lendlease Head of EHS and Integration, Property and Urban Regeneration, Australia and New Zealand, Lendlease
Helene Nancy Lendlease Senior Innovation Manager, Lendlease Property
Stephan Renard In The Thicett Executive Producer
Kate Halpin In The Thickett Director

Why is this work relevant for Brand Experience & Activation ?

The primary objective of this campaign is to reduce the potential for serious injuries and fatalities across Lendlease’s workplaces. Lendlease measures safety performance through the frequency of these “Critical Incidents” and strives to create a workplace where workers and the public are not exposed to the risk of serious injury. Lendlease has built its reputation on creating the best places which genuinely care about the wellbeing of workers and the community. Exceptional safety performance is Lendlease’s license to operate and the business must actively promote safety to protect its reputation. In public perception, safety equals quality and reliability.

Background

SITUATION As one of the world’s leading construction and property companies, Lendlease operates in an extremely high-risk industry. Workplace safety is paramount. Traditional safety campaigns have often been ineffective and failed to engage the target audience, leading to plateauing safety performance. Historically, the approach was to plaster sites with a multitude of competing signage and campaigns from various sources. There was a lot of noise and little engagement. The relevant messages were no longer cutting through. BRIEF Come up with an original creative idea that harmonises safety communications around one story while influencing behavior in the target audience. Develop a safety proposition and a communications platform that can be executionally rolled out across the global business.

Describe the creative idea (20% of vote)

Creative idea Mums for Safety. Featuring real life mums of real life Lendlease workers. Mum is the voice of reason and the one who knows you best. From the moment you were born, she has kept you safe. You might be an adult now, but when she talks you still listen. Mothers (and mother figures) of Lendlease workers, including the CEO, were recruited to deliver important safety, health and wellbeing messages. By shifting safety messages from the voice of Lendlease to the voices of workers’ mums, it bypasses the corporate filter and goes straight to the hearts of our audience. The idea was designed to bring an authentic humanity and lighter side to communications. Using real workers and their families, it increases talkability on-site, which increases awareness and encourages preventative behaviour so that everyone gets home safely.

Describe the strategy (20% of vote)

INSIGHT All Critical Incidents on-site could have been avoided if safety controls had been properly implemented. People switch off to the corporate voice. Emotion can influence behavioural change KEY MESSAGE Looking after your safety on-site is our number one priority, to ensure you and your work colleagues get home safely to the people you love. TARGET AUDIENCE All Lendlease employees, visitors, and sub-contractors in Australia and subsequently globally. CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS Real workers and their mums were recruited for a five day film and stills shoot. A four-minute induction film was produced, focusing on the most frequent causes of Critical Incidents. Other campaign assets were created and delivered to two pilot sites in Sydney and Brisbane, transforming the work environment into an immersive Mums for Safety experience. Other applied collateral included wall signage, digital screens, graffiti stencils and merchandise, strategically placed at each different point of experience.

Describe the execution (30% of vote)

September 2018 Soft launch to management Casting call to all staff via eDM, intranet posts and in person through team meetings Global CEO, Steve McCann (and his mother) recruited as participant and advocate November 2018 The campaign was piloted with a launch event at two worksites in Australia – One Sydney Harbour in New South Wales and Springfield Rise in Queensland. The film was debuted and all participants invited. The campaign was then publicised with intranet content February 2019 Launched to all employees across all Lendlease workplaces in Australia. To date it has reached circa 13,000 employees and thousands of contractors May 2019 The campaign will be launched globally and tailored by region, evolving in the next 12 months with fresh faces and fresh content.

List the results (30% of vote)

It has been the top trending campaign on Pulse (Lendlease’s global intranet), with the most-ever comments and most-ever likes, showing measurable changes in awareness of safety. The most important measurable result is the marked reduction in Critical Incidents at our Australian operations since the campaign launched. This campaign has had a huge impact through its unique tone of voice, its reach, messaging, environmental communications and film. Over the last three years Lendlease Australia’s Critical Incident performance was tracking in line with that of the Lendlease Group as a whole. Since the launch of the campaign in Australia, Lendlease Property has outperformed the Group by a factor of 9, recording a 27% decline in the frequency of Critical Incidents compared to the Group’s decline of 3% in the same period. This has been attributed to Mums for Safety which was the only significant safety program launched at the time.