Greetings from Canton, Ohio. Whenever we are called in to audit an existing observation or behavioral safety (Behavior-Based) approach, we always ask a lot of questions but we often start with three simple ones.
- What are you focusing on?
- Do people know what the focus is?
- How does that impact your accident rates?
Key thought here, if you have a focus in safety like items on a checklist, if people haven’t internalized the items or the focus, you will always be relying on observations and reminders. That shouldn’t be the goal in a Behavior-Based Safety process or any other awareness or focus initiative. I believe the goal should be to give people a few key things that they can do to minimize their exposure to risk and help them internalize them and remove the obstacles or barriers that make it difficult or impossible to take those precautions. So for this week’s podcast Terry and will talk about what we call Knowledge of Precautions in Behavior-Based Safety.
Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway ProAct Safety
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Greetings from: Toronto, Ontario. When we talk about safety excellence we are often talking about doing something fundamentally different than what we have already done before. Consider that most advanced approaches to excellence will not work, either initially or sustain if you do not have a good management foundation already in place. Similarly in safety, if you are not doing the basics, if you do not have a great safety toolbox already in place, adding another tool will be sometimes pointless. Moreover attempting something you are not ready for and failing, almost always creates barriers to future attempts. Many sites realize that doing more of the same doesn’t always bring change. I think Drucker said it best, “Success always makes obsolete the very behavior that achieved it.” I believe to begin a path towards excellence you need to understand the limitations of traditional safety. Thomas Edison believed that “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” I believe this to be true, so Terry and I sat down and discussed our thoughts on this topic. I hope it provides you some ideas to start strengthening the foundations of your management systems and prepare you for any advanced initiatives you may be considering!
Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. This week I would like to share a recording of another article by Terry Mathis, recently published in EHS Today in their April 2009 issue. The article can either be found on the EHS Today website – www.ehstoday.com or on the ProAct Safety website – www.ProActSafety.com
Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Books I have read in June 2009:
· Intrinsic Motivation At Work: What Really Drives Employee Engagement by Kenneth W Thomas,
· Your Child’s Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them by Jennifer Fox,
· Safety 24/7: Building an Incident-Free Culture by Robert L. Lorber, Ph.D. Gregory M. Anderson,
· Exceptional Selling: How The Best Connect and Win In High Stakes Sales by Jeff Thull
· The Art of Safety: Breakthrough Techniques For Optimal Safety Performance by Gary Phillips
· 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner and Ph.D. James K. Harter
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Greetings from Toronto, Canada and show number 84! This week I’d like to talk about what we call a Personal Safety Focus. The idea is: Do you have things that go beyond rules, policies and procedures that you can focus your people on that minimizes or prevents their exposure to risk? Now obviously if you do not have the basics in place, those three things should receive priority attention. I’m of the belief that safety has been truly successful when it can be taken with people, when it is portable. When we only think about safety as on the job, we miss out on helping our people where they are more likely today to get injured. Is most countries, it is not at work. When safety is successful that means that it was interesting and helpful enough and caused people to share the strategies with their families. If you are truly effective in safety, the people you’ll help the most are people you might not ever meet, their family members, and their neighbors. Do your people relay your safety messages? I hope you enjoy this topic, here we go!
Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway ProAct Safety
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