Safety Culture Excellence

Greetings from New Orleans, Louisiana. I received a great question via email that we would like to address this week. The email said this: “I was listening to the various podcasts on safety incentive and reward programs and I have a question. We are currently attempting a safety incentive program but it’s not the most effective thing we’ve done. I think a reward program would benefit us better at this stage. My question is how can we transition from a safety incentive program to a safety reward program?” For this week Terry and I will try to offer our experiences that have been helpful with our clients. We often work with companies to help them assess their existing safety incentive and reward programs and performance management systems. We then help customize either site specific or organizational guidance for incentive and reward programs for safety. I hope this week we are able to offer some helpful quick ideas that you can self implement if you too are struggling with this issue.

Have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

ProAct Safety

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This intensive one-day session will enable participants to create a customized plan, using the latest Lean Behavior-Based Safety (Lean BBS^®) Technologies for spearheading process improvement. 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.

ProAct Safety is the only firm experienced with all of the major Behavior-Based Safety methodologies. Unfortunately, it is common to see many traditional Behavior Based Safety processes plateau in their results after the first two to three years of operation.  At this point the process can become routine and the process leaders may go into a holding pattern that loses the original result-based orientation.  The newness and successes that motivated the process early on disappear into the past and the whole process tends to simply go through the motions and slowly lose momentum.  Behavior-Based Safety processes do not typically fade away if they have ever been successful, but they become much less than they are capable of being. This is the perfect time for Behavior-Based Safety process improvement.

Utilizing the best of your existing Behavior-Based Safety process, your site or committee leaders will explore the options and learn the lean techniques that will successfully breathe new life and efficiency into the existing structure.  For organizations that have mature and/or established behavioral observation processes, improvement strategies can accomplish several important objectives:

• Attain the next step-change in accident reduction results through better targeting
• Increase employee participation through a narrowed focus
• Increase the level of expertise in the personnel active in the process
• Provide new techniques to the observation and data analysis strategies
• Re-energize the process through improved results and more efficient functions
• Reduce worker requirements to maintain the process
• Assess the existing Behavior-Based Safety process for foundations to build on
• Make more efficient use of site leaders and steering teams
• Narrow the focus of the checklist to improve efficiency
• Learn the benefits of making observations shorter but more effective
• Target observations where they will produce the best results
• Simplify observation data to make it easier to analyze
• Increase worker involvement
• Produce faster, more targeted results
• Truly accomplish the reality of continuous improvement in safety
• Learn tools and methods created to address the site-specific variables, thus ensuring internalization and sustainable success 

For more information including the dates, cost and locations please visit www.ProActSafety.com

I hope to see you there!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. During a recent webinar we received a lot of great questions. By the way the previous webinars we have held can currently be viewed on demand at no cost. They can either be found on the Safety Culture Excellence website or at www.proactsafety.com. We followed up with the individual questions after the events and many asked that we turned them into podcasts as they thought others could benefit from the response. So thank you for that! For this week we will answer the following question: “What do you do if your company is sporadic with its commitment to the safety program and what suggestions do you have for a safety culture where mgmt is not consistent with enforcing its policies?” We will try to offer some guidance on this and also how to understand what might be influencing this for as we all know there are a lot of hypercompetitive priorities in business today, I hope our thoughts help!

Have a great week!

Shawn Galloway

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Do your supervisors police or coach safety? Both can have their place, yet what is the predominant style most often used? This seminar will give managers and supervisors the background and tools to become effective safety coaches.  They will learn how to focus workers on the most effective accident-prevention strategies, discover and manage influences on workplace behaviors, measure the progress of cultural changes, and coach and counsel effectively to address safety-related behavioral issues with workers.  The use of these skills will greatly improve safety, but more importantly, make managers and supervisors more effective in all dealings with workers and with each other.

Attendees will be able to:

·         Better understand and appreciate worker actions through behavioral analysis

·         Identify the factors that influence workplace decisions and learn how to change them

·         Differentiate between policing and coaching opportunities in safety

·         Clearly distinguish work behaviors with low probability risks

·         Focus employees on behavioral precautions that are highly effective and within their power to control

·         Choose the best form of feedback to shape behaviors

·         Motivate employees to encourage superior performance through positive feedback

·         Coach employees effectively to change unsafe behaviors

·         Align leadership coaching with progressive discipline when needed

·         Synergize leadership coaching with employee-driven processes without conflict or redundancy

For more information including the dates, cost and locations please visit

www.ProActSafety.com 

I hope to see you there!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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Assessing And Developing Your Safety Culture: This intensive session will enable participants to create a customized plan to assess and improve site and/or organizational safety culture.  Common myths about safety culture will be dispelled and a good working definition will be developed to empower understanding and customization.  Assessment methodologies will be discussed and compared and each participant will see how to best determine the cultural strengths and improvement opportunities.  Based on the assessment findings, plans will be formulated to find the most practical and effective strategies to build on cultural strengths and address weaknesses.  Opportunities will be investigated to utilize other site improvement initiatives to aid in the cultural improvement plans.  All plans will conclude with measurement strategies to ensure long-term change viability and early identification of problems.

Attendees will be able to:

·         Define the true nature and characteristics of safety culture

·         Know where to start and what tools should be used to assess culture

·         Identify the weaknesses and strengths within your safety culture

·         Examine the trust between workers, union, supervisors and management

·         Examine what is or is not working in your current safety efforts

·         Identify what the workers/ union will or will not support

·         Identify the formal/ effective communication strategies to facilitate change

·         Learn how to measure cultural change

For more information including the dates, cost and locations please visit www.ProActSafety.com

I hope to see you there!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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