Safety Culture Excellence

Greetings! Recording this podcast in Denver, Colorado. Welcome to episode 100! In this special edition we would like to share with you some opportunities to participate with us in a live recording of a Safety Culture Excellence Podcast, and sit in on some of our talks this week at National Safety Council 2009 Congress and Expo.

Terry and I have decided to record a special episode live at National Safety Council! The recording will take place on Wednesday the 28^th of October from 9:30 am – 10:30 am. If you would like to find out where this will be held, please stop by booth number #737 on Monday or Tuesday to pick up the information and invite. If you have trouble remembering our booth number, just think of the 737 airplane.  

Terry will be leading a preconference session titled Teaching Supervisors to Be Safety Coaches today, the 25^th of October from 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM in room W108B

Consider that supervisors are probably the most important people in any organization for creating a safe environment. Their impact on safety is exceptional, and when they’re aligned with organizational goals and taught effective coaching skills, the results can be extremely positive. This session investigates why supervisors may not fulfill their potential as safety leaders, and what can be done to remedy the situation.

Terry and Rudy Hagen from Georgia-Pacific will be jointly presenting on a topic titled “Measuring Safety Culture at Georgia-Pacific. This session will be held on Monday, the 26^th of October from 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM in room 308A

Sometimes safety training has to be presented differently at various locations. This session will examine why several Georgia-Pacific sites encountered cultural issues with training tools that had been successful at other sites. You’ll see how Georgia-Pacific partnered with ProAct Safety to develop new tools and processes that measure safety excellence. This new analysis helped uncover problems that were not apparent in audits or perception surveys. Learn the methodology, findings, corrective steps and the impact they had on safety at these sites.

I will be speaking about Safety Culture Assessments and Actionable Findings also on Monday the 26^th of October from 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM in room 311C

Until you determine where your safety program is, you can’t determine the best approach to getting where you want it to be. Safety cultural assessments uncover your safety management needs. This session will discuss different approaches to conducting safety cultural assessments, and how to ensure findings are internally actionable and results are sustainable.

Terry will be speaking on Motivation Strategies: Rewards and Incentives on Tuesday the 27^th of October from 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, in room 307C 

Are you or your team running out of gas? Incentive programs can be tough to execute. This session will examine ways to motivate your team and get everyone involved in the process. You will have the opportunity to share your challenges and ideas you have for engaging people. Bring examples and ideas to share.

So if you are coming out to NSC I hope you will stop by booth #737 to get any further information on either our talks, participate in a podcast recording, or just to stop by and say hello!

Wow I can’t believe it, 100 episodes already. On behalf of all of us here at ProAct Safety we thank you for tuning in each week. It has been a lot of fun recording these podcasts and responding to your questions. By the way thank you for allowing us to use these questions to create podcasts. We promise to continue to bring you fresh ideas each week. If you would like to sign up for our private newsletter so you can be among the first to receive notification about public and private events then please visit www.ProActSafety.com and click on the Subscribe button.

Thanks again for allowing us to share our thoughts with you. I hope you will continue to share yours with us as well. I’d like to close with this, if you only have time to do one thing in safety today, what would it be and how will it contribute to making this a safer world for us all? Thanks for tuning in…

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety

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For those of you celebrating, have a great and safe Labor Day Weekend!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety

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If you are attending Health & Safety Canada 2009 in Toronto next week, stop by booth #306 and say hello!

Shawn Galloway

Host – Safety Culture Excellence

President & COO – ProAct Safety

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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 30^th 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 30^th 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. 

• Attain the next step-change in accident reduction results through better targeting
• Increase employee participation through a narrowed focus
• Increase the level of expertise in the personnel active in the process
• Provide new techniques to the observation and data analysis strategies
• Re-energize the process through improved results and more efficient functions
• Reduce worker requirements to maintain the process
• Assess the existing Behavior-Based Safety process for positive foundations to build on
• Make more efficient use of site leaders and steering teams
• Narrow the focus of the checklist to improve efficiency
• Learn the benefits of making observations shorter but more effective
• Target observations where they will produce the best results
• Simplify observation data to make it easier to analyze
• Produce faster, more targeted results
• Truly accomplish the reality of continuous improvement in safety
• 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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Hello everyone! The picture below highlights where everyone is listening from this month. I thank you for the time you spend with us each week! If you have any suggestions on how we can make these podcasts more valuable to you, please let us know!

Have a great week and many thanks!

Shawn Galloway - ProAct Safety

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Happy Holidays! For the podcast this week, I would like to provide the audio only portion from the recent video, “Intro to Lean BBS (Behavior-Based Safety)”. If you would like to view the full video, please visit www.safetycultureexcellence.com and click on the videos category. Remember to visit the site often as we post new ideas and tools weekly.

The presenter for this event was Terry Mathis, the Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety. Terry is also one of the founders and practical pioneers of Behavior-Based Safety. Prior to starting our firm in 1993, he developed the process in-house at Coca Cola over 20 years ago, where he was the Director of Training. He has direct experience with all of the major methods of traditional Behavior-Based Safety (Behaviour-Based Safety, BBS) and over the past 25 years he has personally been involved with over 700 implementations in close to 30 countries.

In 2000, Terry created Lean Behavior-Based Safety which 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 implementations, Lean Behavior-Based Safety has proven to be the most efficient and practical approach to an already effective theoretical process.

The purpose of this event is to provide you with insight and ideas, based on our direct experience with all of the major methodologies, as today; we are the only company who has been called in behind the other approaches to improve their processes at sites all over the world.

I hope you enjoy this event, for more information about Lean BBS please contact us at www.proactsafety.com and visit our audio blog site weekly for more ideas at www.safetycultureexcellence.com

Shawn Galloway

President & COO

ProAct Safety

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As a result of many requests, I have created a page that lists our favorite books. I hope that you will agree that continuing to “sharpen your saw” (as Covey says), is a critical thing. When I began my first job many, many years ago, my father (Michael A. Galloway) started embedding a principle in me that has proven quite useful. He would always remind me that “no one will ever owe you a job; you have to create and show new value every day”. Because of this principle, I have developed a passion for continuous education. I make time to read as often as possible. I have found this to be invaluable to me and also ensures I can bring new ideas and strategies to the people I work with. The page with the links can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com (or the direct link: http://safetyculture.podbean.com/recommended-reading/ ).

Enjoy!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc

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Hello everyone this is Shawn Galloway the host of Safety Culture Excellence. As you listen, you can tell this is not one of our normal podcasts, this is a special one to inform you of an upcoming webinar. On the 04^th of December 2008 we will be hosting a free one hour webinar titled, “Intro to Lean Behavior-Based Safety.”  While we are putting this on at no cost to the participants, you must qualify to be able to attend. To find the registration type in proactsafety.webex.com do not type in the www, just proactsafety.webex.com.

If you are not familiar with Behavior-Based Safety, it is a systematic method of identifying the precautions most critical to accident prevention and reinforcing and refocusing workers on these precautions through workplace coaching then responding to leading indicator information and common practice data; rather than identifying the holes in your safety system with accident data. 

Since 1984, BBS has proven to be an effective tool for the reduction of workplace accidents.  As we all know, the business climate has changed dramatically; and what people find is that most approaches to Behavior-Based Safety have changed little. Even a proven technology with documented results must eventually evolve or become obsolete.

Lean BBS is a customized approach that utilizes aspects of performance and quality systems to drastically reduce the internal resource requirements of a BBS process. Lean BBS was founded on the business philosophy of achieving maximum results with minimal expenditure of resources. Borrowing proven techniques from Lean Manufacturing™, Six Sigma™, and experiences from hundreds of successful BBS implementations, Lean BBS has proven to be an efficient approach to an already effective process because it is a collaboratively developed results based methodology. Whether you are new to Behavior-Based Safety, or if you have an existing process and you would like to learn some new ideas, check out the webinar at proactsafety.webex.com

Have a great week!

Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety, Inc

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Greetings from Gien, France. For the podcast this week, I’m privileged to share with you an interview between EHS Today’s Associate editor Laura Walter and Terry Mathis (the Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety).  

The title was “Assessing the Safety Culture.” In the interview, Terry shares his 25 years experience working with safety cultures, including how it can be created, defined, measured and maintained. The interview was recently released by EHS Today as part of their great podcast series. Which I encourage you to subscribe to either on itunes or visit their website at http://ehstoday.com/podcasts/

I hope you enjoy! If you would like to download this audio file, it can be found as well as our others at www.safetycultureexcellence.com 

Thanks and have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety

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Hello everyone! The picture below highlights where everyone is listening from. I thank you for the time you spend with us each week! If you have any suggestions on how we can make these podcasts more valuable to you, please let us know!

 Have a great week!

Shawn Galloway - ProAct Safety

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