Greetings, this podcast recorded in Avon Lake, OH. “Most safety culture improvement initiatives either start at the top or the bottom of the organizational structure: executive coaching for senior managers or workforce teambuilding for the rank and file. Some experts believe that safety begins with leadership, others stress that worker behavior has the most impact on safety. Both approaches can achieve improvement. However, there are organizations with good reasons to delay these approaches and start safety improvement in the middle.” – Terry L. Mathis.
In the August 2009 edition of EHS Today, Terry Mathis, the Founder and CEO of our firm ProAct Safety, published an article that I would like to share with you today. If you would like to see the actual article, please visit EHS Today’s website at www.EHSToday.com or you can find it on our website at www.ProActSafety.com along with a lot of other free content to improve your safety focus.
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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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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Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. This week I would like to share a recording of another article by Terry Mathis, recently published in EHS Today in their April 2009 issue. The article can either be found on the EHS Today website – www.ehstoday.com or on the ProAct Safety website – www.ProActSafety.com
Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings this week from Marysville, Kansas! Terry Mathis (the CEO and Founder of our firm ProAct Safety, Inc) recently wrote an article titled ”How Enhancing Safety Improves the Bottom Line” in the March 2009 edition of Textile Rental Magazine. I thought it would be helpful to provide an audio recording of this article in case there are some of you out there that aren‘t in the Textile Industry. A text version can be found at www.ProActSafety.com.
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings recorded while in Omaha, Nebraska! We have received a lot of feedback about an article (Building a Bridge to Safety Excellence: The Role of Culture) that was published in EHS Today in the Feb 2009 edition. For this week I have recorded the article so it can be listened to at your leisure. You can find all of our published articles at www.ProActSafety.com Enjoy!
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from Indianapolis, Indiana. “Because of the reactive approach to measuring and managing safety prevalent in the world today, the true definition of safety success has been obscured. The surface definition of safety success on most safety professionals’ minds is simply a reduction in the failure rate. We have been so busy avoiding failure that we need to remind ourselves what success looks like. The word “success” tends to surface every time the accident rates go down, but does the lack of accidents really equate to safety success?” - Terry Mathis
In September’s edition of EHS today another of Terry’s articles was published. We received some great feedback from the article, including a request to record it here for the subscribers of Safety Culture Excellence. So the podcast this week is a reading of the recent article “What Does Safety Success Look Like? by Terry Mathis. It was published on the 1st of September, 2008 in EHS Today. The online article can be found at: http://ehstoday.com/safety/management/safety_success/index.html
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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I hope that you would agree with my belief that training is only as effect as the reinforcement system that follows.
“Lurking inside that required annual safety training is a golden opportunity. World-class safety organizations are increasingly utilizing safety training to build mindsets and skills that are aligned with corporate goals and values. Far from dull, repetitive compliance training, these classes are challenging portals to new levels of safety excellence. These organizations did not transform their safety training overnight. The transformation began with a new awareness of what could be accomplished when you take your workers out of the workplace and put them in a classroom. The notion that even a repetitious annual rehashing of the same material could serve a double purpose inspired a few visionary safety professionals to experiment with the possibilities. The result has been a series of paradigm shifts that could benefit other companies that have not yet tapped into this potential. Paradigm shift #1 Training is an opportunity to focus and motivate.Paradigm shift #2 Training’s strategic goals go beyond simple compliance.Paradigm shift #3 Training is ONLY an initiation tool. Paradigm shift #4 Follow-up makes training effective long-term” -Terry Mathis, CEO ProAct Safety, Inc This Podcast includes a reading of an article “Training’s Golden Opportunity: Using Compliance Classes to Reach Strategic Safety Goals” which was the cover story and published in June, 2004. This article can be found by navigating to the following links: http://www.ishn.com or http://www.proactsafety.com
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Sometimes a risk is obvious to someone with enough experience or by looking at enough data. However many times experience isn’t equal, common sense doesn’t identify a low probability and most workers don’t see all the data. Low probability risks tend to fly under the radar of common sense and experience, which are the two most common used tools in safety. Unfortunately these 1 in 1000 risks aren’t identified until there is enough accident data to point us to them. Well I hope you will agree with me that once an accident happens, it is too late to prevent it. Low probability risks can’t be ignored, for they too offer opportunities to help control the chain of events that can lead to an incident. Understanding what triggers these risks (that many times in a culture becomes common practice), will help you identify the organizational factors that can encourage cultural risk taking and better identify and address what we are all after, the root cause! This recording was also one of the most frequently requested topics and includes a reading of an article Terry Mathis wrote and was published in the summer of 2003. Like our others it can be found at either www.proactsafety.com or from the publisher at www.asse.org
This recording was also one of the most frequently requested topics and includes a reading of an article Terry Mathis wrote and was published in the summer of 2003. Like our others it can be found at either www.proactsafety.com or from the publisher at www.asse.org
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“The best way to manage observer burnout is to anticipate it and prevent it from becoming a part of your process.” – Terry Mathis, Founder & CEO of ProAct Safety.
I think this is a great topic and I feel confident that it will help remind everyone who has employee involvement in safety observations, on the importance of collaboration, communication and appreciation for efforts and accomplishments. This Podcast includes a reading of an article “How to Deal With Observer Burnout” which was published in May, 2000. This article can be found by navigating to the following links: http://www.ishn.com or http://www.proactsafety.com
I think this is a great topic and I feel confident that it will help remind everyone who has employee involvement in safety observations, on the importance of collaboration, communication and appreciation for efforts and accomplishments. This Podcast includes a reading of an article “How to Deal With Observer Burnout” which was published in May, 2000. This article can be found by navigating to the following links: http://www.ishn.com or http://www.proactsafety.com
I think this is a great topic and I feel confident that it will help remind everyone who has employee involvement in safety observations, on the importance of collaboration, communication and appreciation for efforts and accomplishments. This Podcast includes a reading of an article “How to Deal With Observer Burnout” which was published in May, 2000. This article can be found by navigating to the following links: http://www.ishn.com or http://www.proactsafety.com
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It is hard to argue with the fact that in business, the only thing constant is change. In addition, as we all know, we had a few more resources available to us in the past, than in today’s lean environment. Aside from a few new names and some successful re-branding campaigns, Behavior Based Safety has changed little. While the approaches have certainly had some successful results, those results were a byproduct of reaching the goal which was to complete an implementation of Behavior Based Safety. Rather, than the goal being defined as ensuring (and being held accountable for), results.
Change is needed for these technologies to be sustainable and supportable at all levels in the organization. The reality of today is you have to have a focus on both short-term and long-term results, if you are going to be successful at achieving Safety Culture Excellence. This three-part series is about those results. This Podcast published on 18 February 2008 also includes a reading of the article “Lean Behavior-Based Safety – How the Process is Evolving to Survive in Today’s Economy” which was published in May, 2005. This article can be found by navigating to the following links: http://www.occupationalhazards.com or http://www.proactsafety.com
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