Hello everyone! It is with great pleasure that I announce that we will be hosting a one day event titled “Advanced Lean Behavior-Based Safety Facilitator Seminar”.
Based on several conversations with our clients and previous conference attendees, we have modified our typical annual conference. Therefore, instead of our usual large gathering, we will hold several small, yet more advanced one-day seminars throughout the year. The first of these events will be the “Advanced Lean Behavior-Based Safety Facilitator” seminar, scheduled for the 30th of April 2009.
The other seminar topics for this year are the following:
- Leadership Safety Coaching - Teaching Leaders How to be Safety Coaches
- Assessing & Developing Your Safety Culture
The Advanced Lean Behavior-Based Safety Facilitator seminar will be held on Thursday the 30th of April 2009 at the Sheraton North Houston Hotel which is located at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental airport. We are limiting the audience size to 50 for this event so we can keep in focused and ensure we can move through the advanced topics at a fast pace. The investment per attendee is $795.
The Seminar will have the following Agenda:
- Assessing Readiness for Improvement
- Existing processes - Critical Questions and Easy to Spot Waste
- How to Ensure Success and Continuous Trust with Labor Unions
- Ensuring Leadership Support
- Practical Application in Logistically Challenging Environments
- How to Avoid Start-Up Failure and Achieve Sustainable Success
- Observer Burn-Out and Motivation
- The Importance of Communication in a Behavior-Based Safety Process
- How to Facilitate Success When Leading Steering Committees
- Continuous Improvement & Maintaining a Results Orientation
- Using Behavior-Based Safety to Improve the Safety Culture
I will be facilitating this event along with Terry Mathis, the CEO and Founder of ProAct Safety and the world’s most experienced practitioner of Behavior-Based Safety. If you are unfamiliar with Lean Behavior-Based Safety, Lean BBS® is based on the philosophy of achieving faster accident reductions with the minimum internal resources and external cost requirements, ultimately achieving a more sustainable internalized continuous improvement process. Borrowing proven techniques from Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and experiences from over 1000 successful global implementations; Lean Behavior-Based Safety has proven to be the most efficient and practical approach to an already effective theoretical process.
We are proud of the fact that ProAct Safety is the only firm who has been called in behind all of the major Behavior-Based Safety methodologies. Unfortunately we have found when auditing existing processes, (if they were initially successful) it is common to see many traditional Behavior-Based Safety processes plateau in their results after the first few years of operation. At this point the process can become routine and the process leaders may go into a holding pattern that loses the original result-based orientation. The newness and successes that motivated the process early on disappear into the past and the whole process tends to simply go through the motions and slowly lose momentum. Behavior-Based Safety processes do not typically fade away if they have ever been successful, but they become much less than they are capable of being. This is the perfect time for Behavior-Based Safety process improvement.This intensive session will enable the participants to create a customized plan, using the latest Lean Behavior-Based Safety (Lean BBS®) Technologies for spearheading process improvement. Utilizing the best of your existing Behavior-Based Safety process, your site Behavior-Based Safety leaders will explore the options and learn the lean techniques that will successfully breathe new life and efficiency into the existing structure.
For organizations that have mature and/or established behavioral observation processes, improvement strategies can accomplish several important objectives:
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Attain the next step-change in accident reduction results through better targeting
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Increase employee participation through a narrowed focus
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Increase the level of expertise in the personnel active in the process
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Provide new techniques to the observation and data analysis strategies
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Re-energize the process through improved results and more efficient functions
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Reduce worker requirements to maintain the process
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Assess the existing Behavior-Based Safety process for positive foundations to build on
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Make more efficient use of site leaders and steering teams
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Narrow the focus of the checklist to improve efficiency
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Learn the benefits of making observations shorter but more effective
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Target observations where they will produce the best results
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Simplify observation data to make it easier to analyze
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Produce faster, more targeted results
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Truly accomplish the reality of continuous improvement in safety
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Learn tools and methods to address the site-specific variables, thus ensuring internalization and success
This will be a fast paced event which again is why we are limiting this to 50 people. If you would like to register for the event please visit www.proactsafety.com for more information. I look forward to seeing you there!
Shawn Galloway
President & Chief Operating Officer – ProAct Safety, Inc
Founder, Host & Coauthor – Safety Culture Excellence
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