Greetings, recording this week from East Brunswick, New Jersey. This week I’d like to provide an overview of an upcoming free webinar scheduled for the 24th of September 2009. The webinar will be hosted by EHS Today. You can find a link to enroll at either www.ProActSafety.com or www.EHSToday.com if you are reading this after the live event, a link should be available to watch it on demand at www.ProActSafety.com.
There are many processes called Behavior-Based Safety, or something similar, and Unions oppose most of them. When you examine union resistance to Behavior-Based Safety, you find seven primary objections. How did this opposition start, why is it not resolved, and what can you do about it if you want to use Behavior-Based Safety at a union site? This webinar explores the history, the seven key issues, and a detailed plan for Behavior-Based Safety success that has worked at over 600 union sites. So Terry and I sat down to discuss this webinar and what will be covered. I hope you enjoy!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Can you teach an old dog a new trick?
For 25 years, Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) has proven to be an effective tool for the reduction of workplace accidents. With some simple yet meaningful modification, BBS can become an extremely effective tool to create, coach and achieve sustainable safety culture excellence. The great news: This can happen in a short amount of time!
Terry Mathis, author and safety culture practitioner of a thousand safety culture change and BBS initiatives, will provide examples of how to:
- Develop self-actionable strategies to better understand your safety culture.
- Implement a new Results-Based (Lean) BBS process, or modify an existing one that directly begins to positively shape and transform your safety culture.
- Utilize elements of a behavioral-coaching approach to help shape safety culture, without the requirement of a full BBS process.
- Truly integrate this tool into the culture and thus ensure sustainability of a positive transformation.
About the Presenter: Terry L. Mathis is the CEO and Founder of ProAct Safety. Prior to starting the firm in 1993, he held the position of Director of Training for Coca-Cola, where he developed several new innovative approaches to safety.
He is a veteran of over 1,000 safety improvement projects in 23 countries and 21 languages, has spoken at ASSE, NSC, numerous company and industry conferences, and is a regular presenter at Seminar Fest. He is a professional member of ASSE.
Click Here to Register: http://ohsonline.com/Webcasts/2009/03/Proact.aspx
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Intro to Lean Behavior-Based Safety
Length: 60 Minutes
Host: Shawn Galloway, President & COO - ProAct Safety
Presenter: Terry Mathis, Founder & CEO - ProAct Safety
What You Will Learn:
- What is Lean BBS®? - Lean is not just less
- Why this approach has become the most successful in the industry
- What options are available for Behavior-Based Safety in today’s lean atmosphere
- How Lean Behavior-Based Safety works in logistically challenged organizations
- The typical results that a company should expect
- How to identify if your company is not ready for Behavior-Based Safety
- How to ensure success and trust with represented workforces (Labor Unions)
- Why customization is vital if sustainability is your goal.
- Existing processes - critical questions and easy to spot waste
- What it takes to ensure success of a Lean Behavior-Based Safety approach
Lean Behavior-Based Safety 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.
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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 04th 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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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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Posted in General, Behavior Based Safety, Safety Management, Safety Measurement, Safety Observations, Employee Involvement, Safety Communication, Organizational Safety Culture, Safety Training, Performance Management, Webinars on Sep 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety) lead an online webinar recently for Occupational Hazards titled “Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure?” We have defined safety for so long as the lack of accidents that we are beginning to lose sight of the objective. When accidents go away for a while is it because of safety success or is it simply luck or normal variation? This free webinar explores what safety might look like rather than simply the lack of accidents. Learn the ten signs that safety is at work in your organization and how to tell if the accidents are responding to your efforts or other forces.
The webinar can now be found and played on demand by navigating here: http://ehstoday.com/webinars/#safety
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