Hello from Barnsley a great area located in South Yorkshire, England.
At a recent event a client and a good friend to the firm who is located in beautiful central Washington, asked that we deliver a podcast on a popular topic, that is often a part of our safety culture training materials. The audio podcast this week is a recording of a conversation between Terry Mathis and me discussing the anatomy of change, which as you will hear is essentially the way our body and brain reacts to change and most importantly what triggers and minimizes resistance to change. As you are planning your efforts to improve your safety culture and strive towards excellence, we hope these ideas will come in handy!
Visit www.safetycultureexcellence.com for the audio file. Have a safe week! – Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety
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Hello from New Orleans, LA. A recent question to me was this: “Safety Management vs. Safety Leadership, is one better than the other, how might they differentiate?” There has been a lot of debate about leadership vs. management. Obviously they are both important. Depending on the situation, certainly one might take precedence over the other, however you can’t throw either one out. You really need both to be able to reach a level of excellence in safety or any business function for that matter. The audio podcast this week is a recording of a conversation between Terry Mathis and me discussing this topic and providing our perspective. Visit http://safetyculture.podbean.com for the audio file. Have a great week! – Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety
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Hello from Avon Lake, Ohio. “Accident or incident, which term is right, which term is preferred, why the difference?”
This recent question to us is often debated throughout the world. Personally in most situations, I tend to lean towards the term “unplanned event”. Many will also expand this debate to include preferences of near misses, close calls or near-hits. The audio podcast this week is a recording of a conversation between Terry Mathis and me discussing this topic and providing our perspective. Visit http://safetyculture.podbean.com for the audio file.
Have a great week! – Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety
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Hello everyone from Houston Texas. Yes, I am currently in the path of Hurricane Ike. The beach community (Galveston) south of me, started to flood last night. This was seen as an indicator of things to come as the hurricane is (as I type this an hour or so away of making landfall. I would like to first say thank you. I have received several emails expressing concern for my family and me. The emails are very kind and my family and I thank you for your concern and prayers.
I live in a community, Northwest of Houston so I feel my family will be safe taking shelter in our home. As I type this and listen to all of the recommendations from the different news agencies, I realized that some of the recommendations might introduce new risk that others might not recognize, amongst the chaos of the imminent hurricane. I would like to share a tip with all who might ever be in the path of a major storm such as the one. Many recommend filling your bathtub full of water so you will have water (for many reasons) should it be cut off or otherwise inaccessible. I highly encourage all to be aware that doing so (while a great preventative measure) they have just created a drowning opportunity in their homes, if they have small children/toddlers. Please be constantly aware of the location of the children in relation to the water, as things start to intense.
Accidental death is the number one cause of death in Americans ages 1-44 years of age (-source National Safety Council). Of all the major things that are out there (Like hurricanes), it is the avoidable mundane that harms us most frequently. I hope that others in Ike’s path has already thought of this.
If not a tragedy could be avoided by a few key precautions and the awareness of newly introduced risk.
Thank you and to my fellow Houstonians, Stay Safe! Shawn Galloway – Cypress Texas
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Posted in General, Behavior Based Safety, Safety Management, Safety Measurement, Safety Observations, Employee Involvement, Safety Communication, Organizational Safety Culture, Safety Training, Performance Management, Webinars on Sep 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety) lead an online webinar recently for Occupational Hazards titled “Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure?” We have defined safety for so long as the lack of accidents that we are beginning to lose sight of the objective. When accidents go away for a while is it because of safety success or is it simply luck or normal variation? This free webinar explores what safety might look like rather than simply the lack of accidents. Learn the ten signs that safety is at work in your organization and how to tell if the accidents are responding to your efforts or other forces.
The webinar can now be found and played on demand by navigating here: http://ehstoday.com/webinars/#safety
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Posted in General, Behavior Based Safety, Safety Management, Safety Measurement, Safety Observations, Employee Involvement, Safety Communication, Organizational Safety Culture, Safety Training, Safety & Quality on Sep 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Greetings this week from Indiana, PA - The Christmas Tree capitol of the world! Recently we received the following question: “… Right now i’m struggling with convincing the senior leadership that our good [safety] rates shouldn’t be good enough. Any advice?” Terry Mathis and I thought it would be helpful to respond to this question through a recorded podcast. Visit http://safetyculture.podbean.com for the audio file.
I hope our thoughts are helpful!
Shawn Galloway – ProAct Safety
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Posted in Special Topics on Sep 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Hello everyone this is Shawn Galloway, the President and COO of ProAct Safety. This recording is a podcast recording for those that are attending the 2008 National Safety Council Expo in Anaheim, CA the 22-24th of September 2008. Terry Mathis, the CEO of ProAct Safety and I will be speaking at the event and I wanted to provide you some insight about our topics. We will also have a booth in the expo and you can find us at location 786 so I hope you will stop by. If you are not planning on attending the event and are still interested in hearing more about this topic please let us know at podcast @ proactsafety.com if you would like us to add it to our list of upcoming topics. I’ll pick back up on Sunday with our normal Safety Culture Excellence topics. On Monday, the 22nd of September from 1:30PM - 3:00PM , in Room 201D. I’ll be presenting the following topic: Are Competing Initiatives Causing Change Fatigue? The reality is most proactive initiatives in safety, while well intended, fail to really stick and truly sustain. Lack of effort certainly isn’t the culprit; unfortunately people everywhere are either tired of change or worse, confused around which level of activities takes precedence over another, Safety, Quality, Production? With today’s business reality of constant change and with employees at all levels of the organization being pulled into so many different directions due to competing or worse, conflicting initiatives; can we blame the skepticism for another new program or process? As Jean Paul Getty said, “In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. “ Do people embrace change or quickly revert to what they have always done? So I hope you will join me Monday, the 22nd of September from 1:30PM - 3:00PM , in Room 201D where I’ll provide insight into key industry examples of proven strategies to anticipate and manage the resistance to change, and truly integrate safety initiatives into the fabrics of activities. Terry Mathis will be presenting on Wednesday the 24th of September from 1:00 – 2:30 in Room 207C. The title of his talk is: Off-the-Job Safety: Why It Should Be an On-the-Job Issue Organizations which have become excellent in on-the-job safety are still suffering the effects of off-the-job accidents both to their workers and to the worker’s family. Accidents are now the number-one cause of death and injury to Americans between the ages of 1 and 44 years of age. Four of five of these events happen off the job. It is time to take our excellent workplace safety and export it to the rest of the nation for both economic and altruistic reasons. Recent studies have shown that off-the-job deaths and injuries now account for four of five absences from work. The organizations who promote off-the-job safety benefit significantly by decreasing the impact of non-work related injuries to their employees and employees’ families. Join Terry on Wednesday the 24th of September from 1:00 – 2:30 in Room 207C to find out how easy and profitable an off-the-job safety initiative can be. If you are attending National Safety Council and can’t make it to our talks please try to stop by booth 786 it would be great to meet you!
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