Greetings, recording this week from Paris, France. Recently, we had a client call us who has previously hired us at several other organizations, throughout their very successful career. Well now he’s unfortunately facing the challenge of being the “new kid on the block”. He is at a new company and is having difficulty bringing new ideas into the organizational culture and facing challenges, with this new company accepting these ideas. Even though you have had a successful career, what do you do when you are the new kid on the block? This podcast will discuss the differences in evolution vs. revolution which can be often identified as smaller changes over time vs. a perception of massive forced change.
If you are listening to this file through streaming media and would like to download it for later use. All files and other ideas to help you bring positive improvement in your safety culture can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com or you can visit our consulting firm’s website at www.proactsafety.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings, I am recording from the Normandy Region of France. We had a recent request to expand on our thoughts about Yogi Berra’s quote that was referenced recently, “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” So Terry and I sat down and recorded our thoughts on how that philosophy could impact safety and the overall safety culture. If you are listening to this file through streaming media and would like to download it for later use, all files and other ideas to help you bring positive improvement in your safety culture; can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com. You can also visit our consulting firm’s website at www.proactsafety.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Hello everyone this is Shawn Galloway the host of Safety Culture Excellence. As you listen, you can tell this is not one of our normal podcasts, this is a special one to inform you of an upcoming webinar. On the 04th of December 2008 we will be hosting a free one hour webinar titled, “Intro to Lean Behavior-Based Safety.” While we are putting this on at no cost to the participants, you must qualify to be able to attend. To find the registration type in proactsafety.webex.com do not type in the www, just proactsafety.webex.com.
If you are not familiar with Behavior-Based Safety, it is a systematic method of identifying the precautions most critical to accident prevention and reinforcing and refocusing workers on these precautions through workplace coaching then responding to leading indicator information and common practice data; rather than identifying the holes in your safety system with accident data.
Since 1984, BBS has proven to be an effective tool for the reduction of workplace accidents. As we all know, the business climate has changed dramatically; and what people find is that most approaches to Behavior-Based Safety have changed little. Even a proven technology with documented results must eventually evolve or become obsolete.
Lean BBS is a customized approach that utilizes aspects of performance and quality systems to drastically reduce the internal resource requirements of a BBS process. Lean BBS was founded on the business philosophy of achieving maximum results with minimal expenditure of resources. Borrowing proven techniques from Lean Manufacturing™, Six Sigma™, and experiences from hundreds of successful BBS implementations, Lean BBS has proven to be an efficient approach to an already effective process because it is a collaboratively developed results based methodology. Whether you are new to Behavior-Based Safety, or if you have an existing process and you would like to learn some new ideas, check out the webinar at proactsafety.webex.com
Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety, Inc
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Greetings from Gien, France. For the podcast this week, I’m privileged to share with you an interview between EHS Today’s Associate editor Laura Walter and Terry Mathis (the Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety).
The title was “Assessing the Safety Culture.” In the interview, Terry shares his 25 years experience working with safety cultures, including how it can be created, defined, measured and maintained. The interview was recently released by EHS Today as part of their great podcast series. Which I encourage you to subscribe to either on itunes or visit their website at http://ehstoday.com/podcasts/
I hope you enjoy! If you would like to download this audio file, it can be found as well as our others at www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from Zurich, Switzerland. This week Terry Mathis and I discuss a recent question presented to us, “Why do you think companies are so interested in culture?” Terry and I sat down and recorded our thoughts. If you think about it, over the past 50 years we have developed any number of things that can improve safety. The challenge has not been using the new trick, product or process to improve safety. The problem has been sustainability. Everything has been a flash in the pan and so we now have this culture of program of the month. The reason we have gone from one program to another is not because they did not work, it is because they didn’t last. So what is culture? Culture is the ultimate suitability tool. Once it truly becomes culture it doesn’t go away. It lasts a long time; it becomes the way we truly do things around here…
I hope you enjoy! If you would like to download this audio file, it can be found as well as our others at www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from Colmar France, located in the beautiful region of Alsace. This week I will be concluding Terry’s thoughts on this topic by providing the final part of this four-part series. Terry Mathis will begin by discussing the need for a multidimensional approach to safety, rather than a single methodology or single science. He will also be weighing in on the need for rapid cycle success vs. just small improvements eventually recognized over time. Both are important however you are fighting an uphill battle trying to integrate safety into the fabric of organizational activities, if they are not targeting rapid success. As we have found to get to this point of sustainability, you have to recognize the difference in theory and practice. If it is not practical now, how long will it really last?
I hope you enjoyed this series, tune in next week for more topics!
If you would like to download this file, it can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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