Greetings this week from Palatine, Illinois. Dr. Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed”; of course my follow up always is: “If you don’t understand what you are measuring it will still be hard to improve.” In all of our years and experiences auditing and improving all of the major approaches around Behavior Based Safety (BBS); we have found that the most difficult aspect and the area that most sites struggle with, is sustainability. I truly have a belief that if a project fails, it is not that it failed in the end, most likely it failed in the beginning. So to that I am really excited about the audio podcast this week, as it is the beginning of a three part series that focuses on Behavior Based Safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This audio podcast will start looking at the initial implementation metrics that are used by clients with single locations to organizations rolling this out across multinational facilities. I hope this brings you value and you can find new ways to measure your progress. Shawn Galloway
President & COO ProAct Safety, Inc.
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Hello this week from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. In the audio podcast this week I will be talking about two popular acronyms, SWAT and SWOT and a brief example of how they can apply these to safety. You will hear me tie this to two themes. First it is my belief that we need to be continuously looking for ways to continuously improve in safety. Even when we reach zero our efforts should not decrease. Heck most sites hit zero accidents… on the 1st of January every year. Second it tends to work best if you can identify the opportunities to improve by listening to the culture. Ray Stata the co-founder of Analog Devices once said, “The Rate at which an organization and individuals learns learn may well be the only sustainable competitive advantage”. Moreover Marshall Goldsmith’s Book “What Got You Hear Won’t Get You There” summarizes these principles very well and is a good read.
Shawn Galloway
President & COO
ProAct Safety, Inc.
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Hello from Paris, France. For the audio podcast this week I will present an idea, essentially the way that I tend to look at gathered observation (Precaution Taking and Identified Risk) data. Unfortunately the vast majority of other processes that we audit, not enough are sites and methodologies are focusing on the data by responding to the collected insight and most importantly communicating the findings back to everyone involved. Peter Drucker once said “Success always makes obsolete the very behavior that achieved it.” What we’ve done to get us to this point today, doesn’t mean that by doing the same will continue to produce future results. We have to be looking for new ways to provide value in safety for those that we work with. - Shawn Galloway
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From: http://emeetingplace.com/safetyblog/?p=169 One Thing That We Often Forget!
One thing that we often forget and equally if not more important than employee behaviors is management behaviors. If management is trying to create or improve the safety performance, they need to ensure that they demonstrate the same behaviors they expect from their employees. Employees are watching management very carefully during any process change. If management’s personal behavior is not consistent with the verbal and written messages they are sending, then the process will not work, the safety culture will not be trustworthy, and the management system will fail.
The management system and the safety program should be evaluated to ensure that it is effective and appropriate to specific workplace conditions. The management system must be revised in a timely manner to identify and help correct infractions during a management system evaluation.
One of the issues that I really struggle with is focusing on OSHA Total Case Rates (TCIR). In many cases, management has a tendency to focus on how well they are doing by using numbers to measure safety program success. I do not have a problem with presenting these statistics to upper management, as they are a good measure of the system, but one must remember that people get hurt not numbers. You must learn to focus on individuals as opposed to how well the numbers line up. You must focus on proven activities that will put the accountability where it belongs.
As top management, your visible commitment to safety can make a major difference in the quality of your employees work life. You can choose among a variety of formal and informal methods and styles for achieving this impact. Demonstrate to everyone that you are vitally interested in employee’s safety. Do this by making yourself accessible, encourage your employees to speak up about safety, listen carefully, and then follow through. Set a good example: follow the rules, make time to carry out your safety responsibilities, and insist that your managers and supervisors do the same. Make sure that everyone understands that you are in charge of a business where safety will not be compromised and where hazard awareness and safe work practices are expected of everyone, including on-site contractors and their employees .
From: http://emeetingplace.com/safetyblog/?p=169 One Thing That We Often Forget!
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Communication is by far, one of the most important elements in creating an excellent safety culture. It must be timely, on target and clear, otherwise, communication doesn’t happen. In this session we will discuss effective channels of communication and how to ensure that people are hearing the message that you mean to send. This begins part one of a six part, Safety Process Communication Loop Series.
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As you start to get people involved and initially support new change, and if they become a culture improvement spokesperson, what are you planning to do to make sure they feel smart about their involvement and support decision? What scores are you planning to share with them? By the way, avoiding failure scores are not the same as achieving success scores. Whether it is one on one communication, group posting of scores, wins and successes, results, status updates, missed opportunities, whatever it might be, if you really think about it, it all comes down to helping them to help you but most importantly, making people feel good, about doing the right thing…
There is a principle in marketing called reinforcing the buying decision. For example, aren’t you glad that you purchased a ticket to a game when your team or your favorite athlete wins! In a talk I gave several years ago I translated this principle to “Reinforcing the supporters of change”. This is the principle for today’s audio podcast.
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What are Values? By: Safety Culture Blog
Another word that we hear is “value”. What is a “Value?” Can values can be defined as looking at the underlying beliefs and/or philosophies of individuals (behavior) and organizations (management support/employee participation). When we talk about ways to change or create a proactive safety culture, we need to recognize and understand the full impact that values have on an organization. As discussed, there are morals and values that we will have to deal with when developing a management system…
Safety Culture Blog - http:/emeetingplace.com/safetyblog/
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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
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