Greetings from the Dumfries and Galloway Region of Scotland. Do you incentivize and reward the things that improve safety or only the lowering of accident rates and costs? Understanding the impact of incentives and rewards on leading and lagging indicators, often provides insight on whether you are driving proactive or reactive approaches to safety? Sometimes even with the best approaches, if you are not looking at both types of indicators, you might not realize it, but you might be rewarding non-productive activities and efforts. For this week’s podcast Terry offers his thoughts on associating incentives and rewards to leading and lagging indicators for safety. You will hear Terry reference advance subscription-based podcasts. In the near future we will release these advanced, action-oriented podcasts that provides experience-based guidelines on how to improve all the different facets of a safety culture. If you would like to be one of the first to have access to these tools prior to public release, please send us an email at podcast@proactsafety.com..
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from Danville, Pennsylvania and show number 69! Two weeks ago we started a discussion about Incentives and Rewards for Safety. We began with our philosophical view of these approaches to safety and last week shared our thoughts, on what incentive and reward programs are, and their differences. For the podcast this week you will hear Terry Mathis and I discussing the differences in rewarding teams and individuals for safety. I believe there are positive aspects of both, yet we all know even with the best intentions, sometimes things can go wrong. So without giving too much away, let’s get started!
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 from Corvallis, Oregon and SCE show number 68! Last week we talked about incentive programs and our philosophical view of them. This week we would like to share our thoughts on what incentive and reward programs are, and their differences. Just a reminder, we recently released the date for our “Advanced Lean Behavior-Based Safety Facilitator Seminar“. In the next couple of weeks we will be releasing the dates for our other public seminar topics as well. Visit www.proactsafety.com for the details. So without further delay, here is Terry and I discussing this week’s topic!
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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Can you teach an old dog a new trick?
For 25 years, Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) has proven to be an effective tool for the reduction of workplace accidents. With some simple yet meaningful modification, BBS can become an extremely effective tool to create, coach and achieve sustainable safety culture excellence. The great news: This can happen in a short amount of time!
Terry Mathis, author and safety culture practitioner of a thousand safety culture change and BBS initiatives, will provide examples of how to:
- Develop self-actionable strategies to better understand your safety culture.
- Implement a new Results-Based (Lean) BBS process, or modify an existing one that directly begins to positively shape and transform your safety culture.
- Utilize elements of a behavioral-coaching approach to help shape safety culture, without the requirement of a full BBS process.
- Truly integrate this tool into the culture and thus ensure sustainability of a positive transformation.
About the Presenter: Terry L. Mathis is the CEO and Founder of ProAct Safety. Prior to starting the firm in 1993, he held the position of Director of Training for Coca-Cola, where he developed several new innovative approaches to safety.
He is a veteran of over 1,000 safety improvement projects in 23 countries and 21 languages, has spoken at ASSE, NSC, numerous company and industry conferences, and is a regular presenter at Seminar Fest. He is a professional member of ASSE.
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Greetings from East Brunswick, New Jersey. The use of incentives for safety is nothing new. A quick search yielded over 27,000 results. This week Terry and I will initiate this topic that I’m sure will be continued over many, many podcasts. To begin, this week you will hear Terry talk about how safety incentive programs can be easily placed into three broad categories.
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 from Saint Simons Island, GA. Often we hear of leaders who have stated that there will be a “zero tolerance for accidents”. Sometimes the positive intention of that phrase is well understood and thus no problem. Many times regardless of best intentions, a perception gets created about the meaning and potential negative outcome of the new philosophy. The purpose of this podcast is to provide a little background and offer some insight about how to communicate the intention correctly.
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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