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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Posted in Special Topics on Oct 29th, 2008 No Comments »
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Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway - ProAct Safety
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Greetings from Corpus Christi, Texas. This week we will be providing part three of this four part series. As always if you have not listening to the previous audio recordings of this topic, I encourage you to do so before continuing; as you will be joining the middle of a conversation. Today we’ll listen in to Terry Mathis discuss a few key things such as the power of focus. What one thing if you do differently would provide you with transformational improvement? Most sites we work with around the world are putting out the appropriate amount of energy towards safety. Generally what we find is the opportunities to further improve come from identifying what they really should be focusing on and measuring proactively. We will also discuss the differences of a do as your told philosophy vs. empowering discretional effort. Following that we will discuss the need to create a sense of ownership and pride for safety, the dangers of malicious compliance/avoidance behavior and finally clear, demonstrated communication. If you would like to download this file, it can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com Thanks and have a great week! Shawn Galloway ProAct Safety
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Posted in General, Behavior Based Safety, Safety Management, Safety Measurement, Safety Observations, Employee Involvement, Safety Communication, Organizational Safety Culture, Safety Training, Special Topics, Performance Management, Webinars on Oct 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety) lead an online webinar recently for Occupational Health & Safety titled “Building Your Bridge to Safety Culture Excellence” Is an excellent safety culture the chicken or the egg? How do you truly weave safety into the fabric of cultural activities? How do you integrate safety initiatives so they synergize rather than compete for resources? How do you ultimately build the bridge between your current results and true world-class excellence? “The last frontiers of safety excellence can only be crossed by organizations with mature and highly functioning safety cultures.” – Terry Mathis
This seminar explores the integration of cultural formation in the overall picture of safety excellence efforts. The webinar will provide actionable strategies gained from experience innovating safety excellence with more than 125 organizations and 900 global engagements. Learn how to define the tools, the processes, the timetables, and the range of options for creating a truly exceptional safety culture, which produces truly excellent safety results.
The webinar can now be found and played on demand by navigating here: http://ohsonline.com/Webcasts/2008/09/Proact.aspx
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Hello everyone from Houston Texas. Yes, I am currently in the path of Hurricane Ike. The beach community (Galveston) south of me, started to flood last night. This was seen as an indicator of things to come as the hurricane is (as I type this an hour or so away of making landfall. I would like to first say thank you. I have received several emails expressing concern for my family and me. The emails are very kind and my family and I thank you for your concern and prayers.
I live in a community, Northwest of Houston so I feel my family will be safe taking shelter in our home. As I type this and listen to all of the recommendations from the different news agencies, I realized that some of the recommendations might introduce new risk that others might not recognize, amongst the chaos of the imminent hurricane. I would like to share a tip with all who might ever be in the path of a major storm such as the one. Many recommend filling your bathtub full of water so you will have water (for many reasons) should it be cut off or otherwise inaccessible. I highly encourage all to be aware that doing so (while a great preventative measure) they have just created a drowning opportunity in their homes, if they have small children/toddlers. Please be constantly aware of the location of the children in relation to the water, as things start to intense.
Accidental death is the number one cause of death in Americans ages 1-44 years of age (-source National Safety Council). Of all the major things that are out there (Like hurricanes), it is the avoidable mundane that harms us most frequently. I hope that others in Ike’s path has already thought of this.
If not a tragedy could be avoided by a few key precautions and the awareness of newly introduced risk.
Thank you and to my fellow Houstonians, Stay Safe! Shawn Galloway – Cypress Texas
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Posted in Special Topics on Sep 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Hello everyone this is Shawn Galloway, the President and COO of ProAct Safety. This recording is a podcast recording for those that are attending the 2008 National Safety Council Expo in Anaheim, CA the 22-24th of September 2008. Terry Mathis, the CEO of ProAct Safety and I will be speaking at the event and I wanted to provide you some insight about our topics. We will also have a booth in the expo and you can find us at location 786 so I hope you will stop by. If you are not planning on attending the event and are still interested in hearing more about this topic please let us know at podcast @ proactsafety.com if you would like us to add it to our list of upcoming topics. I’ll pick back up on Sunday with our normal Safety Culture Excellence topics. On Monday, the 22nd of September from 1:30PM - 3:00PM , in Room 201D. I’ll be presenting the following topic: Are Competing Initiatives Causing Change Fatigue? The reality is most proactive initiatives in safety, while well intended, fail to really stick and truly sustain. Lack of effort certainly isn’t the culprit; unfortunately people everywhere are either tired of change or worse, confused around which level of activities takes precedence over another, Safety, Quality, Production? With today’s business reality of constant change and with employees at all levels of the organization being pulled into so many different directions due to competing or worse, conflicting initiatives; can we blame the skepticism for another new program or process? As Jean Paul Getty said, “In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. “ Do people embrace change or quickly revert to what they have always done? So I hope you will join me Monday, the 22nd of September from 1:30PM - 3:00PM , in Room 201D where I’ll provide insight into key industry examples of proven strategies to anticipate and manage the resistance to change, and truly integrate safety initiatives into the fabrics of activities. Terry Mathis will be presenting on Wednesday the 24th of September from 1:00 – 2:30 in Room 207C. The title of his talk is: Off-the-Job Safety: Why It Should Be an On-the-Job Issue Organizations which have become excellent in on-the-job safety are still suffering the effects of off-the-job accidents both to their workers and to the worker’s family. Accidents are now the number-one cause of death and injury to Americans between the ages of 1 and 44 years of age. Four of five of these events happen off the job. It is time to take our excellent workplace safety and export it to the rest of the nation for both economic and altruistic reasons. Recent studies have shown that off-the-job deaths and injuries now account for four of five absences from work. The organizations who promote off-the-job safety benefit significantly by decreasing the impact of non-work related injuries to their employees and employees’ families. Join Terry on Wednesday the 24th of September from 1:00 – 2:30 in Room 207C to find out how easy and profitable an off-the-job safety initiative can be. If you are attending National Safety Council and can’t make it to our talks please try to stop by booth 786 it would be great to meet you!
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