Safety Culture Excellence

Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. We have had several requests asking us to provide our thoughts on this week’s topic. It is sometimes difficult to provide a blanket answer to questions such as this. I have seen in practice this strategy work very well and conversely I have seen it very quickly destroy a culture and undo years of hard work. Every site is unique. I believe you have to ask yourself “what am I trying to accomplish?” Most people have good intentions when asking injured employees to help out with safety tasks, whether it is administrative in nature, training or simply communicating lessons learned. Most often where the danger lies is when the injured party or anyone else for that matter, feels that participation is forced. What typically follows is a belief that this is a punishment for getting hurt. When a culture believes that punishment will follow injury, well I think we will all agree that it doesn’t take much to suppress reporting; or worse drive it completely underground. That is not the path to zero we are looking for…

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Thanks and have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety

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