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Safety Culture Excellence is a weekly series designed to support your efforts towards excellence in performance and culture. For more information or to contact the host, visit www.ProActSafety.com.
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Monday Jan 21, 2013
Monday Jan 21, 2013
The fact that perceptions affect safety cultures is undeniable, yet the best intending organizations often pay little attention to perceptions and the conditioning affect they have on new employees or the company. Whether accurate or not, perceptions become culturally-norming beliefs. When these common beliefs are combined with unclear values, potentially negative attitudes, and hypercompetitive priorities, a dangerous mixture of influences is placed on individuals attempting to solve problems in day-to-day operations. The need to understand perceptions and what drives them is critical.
Many organizations measure perceptions, but few effectively manage them. There are two types of perceptions: accurate and inaccurate. Which ones are you responding to? Perceptions are influenced by multiple sources, both internal and external. Unmanaged perceptions negatively affect safety communication. Even worse, they have been identified as contributing factors in multiple catastrophic incidents.
Culture is made up of common practices, attitudes, and perceptions of risks that influence behavioral choices at work and away from work. Culture is also influenced by management, leadership, supervision, workplace conditions, and logistics. Measuring a culture involves a complex metric of perceptions, workplace realities, past accident history, and inter-connectivity of the people.
Perceptions are an important consideration when determining methods to improve safety or other aspects of performance. Perceptions affect behaviors, and they should be measured to determine a starting place for cultural modification efforts. Perception surveys can help identify areas for improvement and can serve as a baseline for measuring the effectiveness of improvement efforts.
The workshop focuses on how to measure, understand, and manage the perceptions that either facilitate or impede achieving and sustaining safety excellence. Attendees will be provided with extensive examples of perception survey report templates and detailed examples of different reporting styles.
During this workshop you will learn how to:
- Build Support
- Define the scope
- Determine the goals
- Define the users and audience
- Define terminology
- Determine categories and appropriate statement
- Tools to analyze and categorize findings
- How to administer electronically and manually
- How to maintain trust in the survey process and hidden pitfalls to avoid
- Categorize the results by focusing on internally-implementable action plans
For more information contact ProAct Safety at 936.273.8700 or info (at) ProActSafety.com
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety
www.ProActSafety.com
www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com
Monday Jul 16, 2012
Monday Jul 16, 2012
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Bethesda, Maryland. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in April 2012 in my column in BIC Magazine. It was titled, Safety Motivation: Hands and Feet, or Hearts and Minds? The published article can either be found at www.BICAlliance.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: www.safetycultureexcellence.com. If you would like access to archived podcasts (older than 90 days – dating back to January 2008) please visit www.ProActSafety.com/Store.
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday May 21, 2012
Monday May 21, 2012
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Soda Springs, Idaho. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in March 2012 in my column in BIC Magazine. It was titled, Perception Surveys: Myths and Managing Results. The published article can either be found at www.BICAllliance.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com. If you would like access to archived podcasts (older than 90 days – dating back to January 2008) please visit www.ProActSafety.com/Store.
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Apr 30, 2012
Monday Apr 30, 2012
Greetings all! How can you help employees see how safety improves their life outside of work? Do they make the connection? If not, now is the time before it is too late. For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing an important message to challenge you to make sure safety ideas transfer outside of the job site. You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, at www.ProActSafety.com/Insights, or directly on the magazine’s site at: http://cos-mag.com or you can watch it below from YouTube:
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I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Friday Feb 10, 2012
Friday Feb 10, 2012
Greetings everyone, I wanted to share with you a new workshop we have created to help you further improve your safety culture and performance and achieve safety culture excellence. To see the currently scheduled dates and locations around the world, please visit www.proactsafety.com and click on the events tab. If you would like information on a private workshop, seminar, keynote speech or consulting, contact us at info @ proactsafety.com This particular workshop is titled: Behavior-Based Safety 101.
To register: http://proactsafety.com/events/bbs-101
I hope to see you there!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Feb 06, 2012
Monday Feb 06, 2012
Greetings everyone! I’m excited to announce the release of our video promoting our upcoming 11th Annual Behavior-Based Safety Conference in Houston, Texas this April 2012. You can watch or download the video here or stream it from YouTube
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Pre-Conference: April 16, 2012 General Conference: April 17-18, 2012 Post-Conference: April 19, 2012
For the brochure, detailed agenda or to signup, please visit:
I hope to see you there. Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Dec 26, 2011
Monday Dec 26, 2011
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'd like to share with you one of my models that explains my theory on how we can help people internalize a needed focus in safety. If we want people to be safe, this means risk-free. For this to happen, safety strategies need to be portable and facilitate internalization. I hope you will use these steps to help the people you are supporting in safety. You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, or you can watch it below from YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6xXN8HXJh4]
I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Oct 17, 2011
Monday Oct 17, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Monaghan, Ireland. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in my column for Canadian Occupational Safety in October 2011. It was titled “Safety Ideas: To Share or Not to Share?” The published article can either be found at www.COS-MAG.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Aug 08, 2011
Monday Aug 08, 2011
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing a story of how my perspective was changed. This reinforced my desire to help others change the lens in which they look at life through. This is critical for self-discovery, which is vital to true performance excellence. You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, at www.ProActSafety.com/Insights, or directly on the magazine’s site at: http://cos-mag.com or you can watch it below from YouTube.
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I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Apr 25, 2011
Monday Apr 25, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Dallas, Texas. For the podcast this week, I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the February 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Motivation Through Fear: How To Destroy An Effective Culture”. The published article can either be found at www.BICALLIANCE.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc