Safety Culture Excellence

Greetings, recording this week in Marysville, Kansas. Just a quick note about some upcoming public events: On the 15th and 16th of September Terry Mathis will be in Seattle, Washington leading two one-day public sessions that are part of the Safety Culture Excellence Series. On the 15th he will be leading a seminar titled Advanced Tactics for Behavior-Based Safety: Lean Principles & Results Orientation. The following day will be covering Leadership Safety Coaching: Teach Your Supervisors to be Safety Coaches. 

Then on the 28th and 29th of September I will be conducting two one day workshops for the Saskatchewan Section of American Society of Quality. Each One-Day Workshop is titled: Lean Behaviour-Based Safety & Safety Culture Excellence. If you would like more information about these workshops or other upcoming events, please visit www.ProActSafety.com and click on the events category at the top.

So on to this week’s topic. “Most people view perceptions as something to be measured; not managed. But I have found that if perceptions are not managed, they will have variance that can cause lack of correct focus in safety efforts. Workers who do not accurately perceive their greatest risks often waste their limited safety efforts on ineffective strategies. Correcting perceptions can direct safety efforts for maximum effectiveness.” – Terry Mathis.

 In the June 2009 edition of EHS Today, Terry Mathis, the Founder and CEO of our firm ProAct Safety, published an article that has created quite a buzz among safety professionals and executive leaders. For this week, I’d like to share a recording of that article and challenge you to consider if the message applies to your company. If you would like to see the actual article, please visit EHS Today’s website at www.EHSToday.com or you can find it along with a lot of other free content to improve your safety focus on our website at www.proactsafety.com. So without further delay, let’s get to the article…

 Thanks and have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety

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