Safety Culture Excellence

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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