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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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Thursday Apr 25, 2013
Thursday Apr 25, 2013
Certainly the average person desires to be both liked and respected. While a gross oversimplification of behavioral sciences, we behave in a way consistent with seeking out what we desire and avoiding what we don’t. Leaders of all kinds are often put in positions to make decisions that impact the lives of others. If our primary goal is to be liked, we act, or decide in accordance. The same is true if our goal is to obtain or preserve respect. Earlier this month the world lost Margaret Thatcher, the previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. She was once quoted as saying, “If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” I’m sure we have all worked for people that we personally liked, but didn’t respect the professional position, with the opposite also being true. With leaders seeking out both hearts and minds and hands and feet, what should the primary focus be? Ultimately, we need to look at what the role of a leader should be (e.g., thought leader, challenger of status quo thinking, advancer of performance and culture)? Stephen Hawking, a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author once wrote, “Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.” During a recent dinner conversation on this topic with very well liked and publicly respected CEO, he commented, “Being liked is more about an individual’s self-esteem.” I tend to agree. Being respected comes from accomplishing what needs to be done and through creating the desire among others to do so without question, due to regard for the person and position. I’m very happy if those I work with and lead like me. More important, do they respect what I do and what I’m trying to influence them to do without my direction or oversight? What are your thoughts? Shawn M. Galloway is the coauthor of two books: STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence and The Hazardous Materials Management Desk Reference (3rd Edition). He is also the President of ProAct Safety. As an internationally recognized safety excellence expert, he has helped hundreds of organizations within every major industry to achieve and sustain excellence in performance and culture. In 2012, ISHN Magazine listed him in the POWER 101 – Leaders of the EHS World. He has authored over 250 podcasts, 100 articles and 30 videos on the subject of safety excellence. Shawn is the host of the highly acclaimed weekly podcast series, Safety Culture Excellence and a columnist for several magazines.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2013
Wednesday Apr 17, 2013
Three has been a lot of dialogue lately about high-severity accidents. Some have questioned the basic assumptions of people like Herbert William Heinrich that tended to think that all levels of severity come from the same risk pools. Several research projects have focused on severe accidents and sought to determine their root causes and find strategies to prevent them. The real danger in focusing on topics like this is that we tend to lose the balance of our safety efforts. We tend to focus either on the highest frequency accidents or the highest severity accidents and not on both. While the majority of severe injuries result from process issues that are usually covered by rules and procedures, and the most frequent accident tend to be more personal and involve worker behaviors; there are exceptions to both. It is crucial that we achieve compliance with regulations and our own rules and procedures while encouraging and empowering workers to go “above and beyond.” If we take our focus off one kind of risk while we work on another, we do so at our workers’ peril. Even mundane risks can sometimes result in unusually severe injuries. A behavioral approach should not take effort away from compliance efforts. While we strive to better understand both our severe and our frequent accidents, we should balance our efforts to prevent both types. -Terry L. Mathis Terry L. Mathis is the founder and CEO of ProAct Safety, an international safety and performance excellence firm. He is known for his dynamic presentations in the fields of behavioral and cultural safety, leadership, and operational performance, and is a regular speaker at ASSE, NSC, and numerous company and industry conferences. EHS Today listed Terry as a Safety Guru in ‘The 50 People Who Most Influenced EHS’ in both 2010 and 2011. He has been a frequent contributor to industry magazines for over 15 years and is the coauthor of STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence, 2013, WILEY.
Monday Apr 15, 2013
Monday Apr 15, 2013
Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) professionals face an increasing challenge, one that intensifies with each new hypercompetitive priority. It is little wonder why organizations strive to move safety from a priority to a value. To create these shared values within an organization, they must be reinforced at or near the point of decision. In principle, this always holds true. In practice, accomplishing this grows increasing difficult. Simply stating that safety is a value at an increasing frequency and passion does not make it so. The successful HSE leader of tomorrow cannot simply work towards value creation; they must become a transformational leader. Key Issues Addressed During Workshop • The challenges facing future HSE leaders • Redefining safety excellence • Transformational opportunities for further cultural and performance improvement for organizations already leading in safety efforts • Best practices of top performing organizations in safety and operational excellence • Strategies to self-diagnose for transformational opportunities within your organization that will put you onto the path to safety excellence • Proven elements of the safety culture excellence model and behavior of the best companies to sustain this desirable goal • How to engage employees in safety, solicit discretional effort, and create a workplace culture that is committed to sustaining safety excellence • Updated safety models and approaches that have resulted in millions of annualized savings • A review of the better practices of excellence cultures • A review of the elements of Safety Culture Excellence® For more information contact ProAct Safety at 936.273.8700 or info (at) ProActSafety.com For more detailed strategies to achieve and sustain excellence in performance and culture, pick up a copy of our book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence, available through WILEY (publisher), Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Shawn M. Galloway ProAct Safety www.ProActSafety.com
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Monday Feb 18, 2013
Supervisors constantly communicate priorities and strategies to their workers, whether they intend to or not. With training, supervisors can take active control of the messages they send to promote safety as an organizational value. They can set levels of expectation that point everyone in the direction of safety excellence and exert a positive influence on the formation of safety culture.
Most supervisors don't have the latest training and tools for coaching workers to perform their jobs safely. Becoming an effective coach can leverage a supervisor's influence to make significant gains in accident reductions. Coaching skills also improve other areas of performance including quality and productivity as well as safety. The benefits to the organization impact almost every area of human performance.
The training contains the latest behavioral coaching techniques and directly applies them to improving safety. A model for counseling problem employees or addressing serious safety situations is also included. The design of the training utilizes advanced learning techniques and helps attendees to apply the models in the classroom to reality-based scenarios right out of the workplace.
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 Feb 11, 2013
Monday Feb 11, 2013
Greetings everyone, this podcast recorded while in Memphis, TN. I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published November 2012 in ISHN Magazine. It was titled, How to Avoid Safety Failures. The published article can either be found at www.ISHN.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 Feb 04, 2013
Monday Feb 04, 2013
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 Jan 14, 2013
Monday Jan 14, 2013
Greetings everyone, this podcast recorded while in Orlando, FL. I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published October 2012 in my column BIC Magazine. It was titled, I’m Sorry I Almost Killed You. 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. 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 Dec 31, 2012
Monday Dec 31, 2012
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Memphis, TN. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in October 2012 in Facility Safety Management. It was titled Strategy Begins With Transformational Focus. The published article can be found 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 Dec 17, 2012
Monday Dec 17, 2012
Greetings everyone, this podcast recorded while in Bethesda, MD. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article written by Terry Mathis, published in September 2012 in the MN Department of Administration Risk Management Alert Newsletter. It was titled, The Primary Tool of Organizational Excellence. The published article can 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 contact us at podcast @ ProActSafety.com.
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Dec 03, 2012
Monday Dec 03, 2012
Greetings everyone, this podcast recorded while in Collinsville, IL. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article written by Terry Mathis, published in September 2012 in EHS Today Magazine. It was titled, Can Punishment Improve Safety. The published article can either be found at www.EHSToday.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 contact us at podcast @ ProActSafety.com.
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc