Episodes
Monday Dec 19, 2011
212 - Do-It-Yourself Safety Perception Surveys: Six Important Steps
Monday Dec 19, 2011
Monday Dec 19, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the December 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Do-It-Yourself Safety Perception Surveys: Six Important Steps”. 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 podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Nov 14, 2011
207 – Calling All Subscribers – A Message From Your Host
Monday Nov 14, 2011
Monday Nov 14, 2011
Hello all, recording this podcast while in Philadelphia Pennsylvania at the 2011 National Safety Congress and Expo. I’m sure you will all agree that we all appreciate positive feedback, if only we would give it more often. The goal of this podcast is to hopefully and sincerely provide you with thanks from me. I have been very fortunate to be on the receiving end of some great feedback over the past few months. I started this podcast in January of 2008 with the goal to share some thoughts with some specific clients around the world. The purpose was to help them with reinforcing strategies we had previously trained them on, and share new ones we had discovered as well. Quite quickly we started receiving questions and comments from places in the world we knew we hadn’t worked.
Quite frankly we had some initial concerns that we were sharing our intellectual capital and intellectual property with people who hadn’t compensated us for it. This conversation lasted about five minutes before Terry Mathis and I came to the conclusion that sharing our thoughts, strategies, lessons learned and new ideas was in the best interest of global safety efforts. Within months of this decision we started receiving feedback from subscribers on how they appreciated the strategies we had shared and how they were already seeing progress from implementing our ideas and models. This makes it all worthwhile.
At least once a month I receive detailed emails outlining the progress experienced from either implementing all or some of the ideas. As Terry and I regularly speak at private and public safety conferences and events throughout the world, we are very fortunate to meet many of our subscribers. To see a list of our public events (which updates monthly) where we will next be speaking visit www.ProActSafety.com. If you would like to contact us about a private workshop or consultation, there are ways to do that there as well.
As I’m recording this at the 2011 National Safety Congress and Expo in Philadelphia I was both speaking and moderating at NSC and just happened to be in our booth in the expo area talking with some clients and as I turned around I had the honor of meeting meet another of our subscribers, a gentleman who is the Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge for a United States Air Force Base in a European Country. He shared with me how they have had significant improvement in safety at the base after listening to all of these podcasts and implementing the strategies. As he shook my hand he handed me his Air Force Unit Coin. Being prior military myself, I know what an honor that is. Thank you for that. I’m not sharing his name or base in this story as I want to respect his privacy and that of others who share their stories with me.
It is important that we all receive positive feedback. The feedback provided to me by one of our nation’s heroes makes these podcasts worthwhile. I travel a great deal. I write these podcasts and articles while on the road in different countries and cities. Truthfully had I know what a commitment this would be, providing weekly content, I’m not sure I would have made the decision to start this podcast. But, the feedback I hear from you all, makes it all worthwhile.
Like many of you have taken time to thank me, be sure you take the time to thank the employees and leaders in your companies that have helped you achieve improvement. We can all use a little more positive feedback.
Sincerely, thank you for all that you do and for taking the time to share your thoughts with me, I truly appreciate it. If we haven’t had the opportunity to connect and you have been a long-time subscriber, please feel free to drop me a note at podcast @ proactsafety.com and say hello, I’d love to hear your story.
A quick business note:
This is the 207th podcast that we have released, at no cost to the subscribers. We will continue to release our podcasts at no charge, however maintaining the availability of previous ones from years past is becoming difficult with the platform we are using to publish them. They only provide us a limited amount of space, which we are getting close to maxing out. With over two hundred podcasts, audio and video that range between a few minutes to sixty minutes each, I guess this should be no surprise. In the next few months we may be forced to remove the public access to some of our earlier posts, so I encourage you to remind others to download them all now while they are still available. If we have to remove these older posts for the purpose of space, we will still make them available to send to you on a memory stick or CD for a small fee to cover these new costs we will incur.
Again, thank you for your dedication to safety excellence on and off the job and thank you for taking our strategies and making them fit your operations; this is after all why we provide these podcasts. Best of luck taking them forward within your company.
Warm regards,
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety
Monday Oct 31, 2011
205 - Safety Measurement: The Dysfunctional Big Picture
Monday Oct 31, 2011
Monday Oct 31, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Anchorage, Alaska. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the October 2011 edition of EHS Today. It was titled “Safety Measurement: The Dysfunctional Big Picture”. 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
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Oct 24, 2011
204 - Becoming A L.E.A.D.E.R.
Monday Oct 24, 2011
Monday Oct 24, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the October 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Becoming a L.E.A.D.E.R.”. 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
Monday Oct 17, 2011
203 - Safety Ideas: To Share Or Not To Share?
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 Oct 03, 2011
Monday Oct 03, 2011
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing an exercise that I’ve led with thousands of people to self-discover how to move from being perceived as a cop in safety (safety police) to a coach (safety coaching). As always, customization is a critical first step to ensure sustainability; so take these ideas and make them fit your group. 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 Sep 26, 2011
200 - Roles in Safety: Often Misunderstood, Rarely Descriptive
Monday Sep 26, 2011
Monday Sep 26, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Spokane, Washington. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the August 2011 edition of Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine. It was titled “Roles in Safety: Often Misunderstood, Rarely Descriptive”. 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 Sep 12, 2011
198 - Policing for Results Leads to Management by Voodoo
Monday Sep 12, 2011
Monday Sep 12, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Denver, CO. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the August 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Policing for Results Leads to Management by Voodoo”. 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
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing a vital methodology used by many global organizations, to help improve the performance of critical employees at any level of the organization. As always, customization is a critical first step to ensure sustainability. 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 Aug 22, 2011
195 - Deciding To Be The Best Starts With A Few Simple Questions
Monday Aug 22, 2011
Monday Aug 22, 2011
Greetings, this podcast was recorded while working in Soda Springs, Idaho. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in June 2011 in my column in BIC Alliance, it was titled, “Deciding To Be the Best Starts With a Few Simple Questions”. The article can either be found by visiting the magazine’s website 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