Greetings recording on the road in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This week I’d like to share with you the details of a highly requested workshop. We have been delivering this workshop privately for companies since January 2002. This approach to Behavior-Based Safety has proven to be the most successful in the industry at both short and long-term results. This workshop will train participants to utilize ProAct Safety’s Lean BBS® methodologies for facilitating an implementation or improving existing processes. Most importantly, it will prepare the consultants to anticipate and handle the issues that can challenge the success and sustainability of Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) efforts.
Participants will also be able to identify opportunities to minimize the perception of change, achieve the quickest success possible, and ensure long-term process sustainability. We have been extremely successful with our Internal Consultant Certification Workshop, which is designed for organizations that desire to internalize and sustain Behavior-Based Safety capabilities. Additionally, ProAct Safety is familiar with all of the major implementation methods and has developed a collection of best practices through our experience with over 1,000 successful Behavior-Based Safety implementations.
Because of this unique position, we are able to instruct individuals on specific consultative methods to customize & implement Behavior-Based Safety, and attractive but ineffective approaches to avoid. Companies using this path strategy should have highly qualified personnel and sufficient internal resources. ProAct Safety will certify the selected individuals to return to their location and begin designing and implement a customized Behavior-Based Safety process. This approach is not strictly a train-the-trainer course, nor is it intended to teach individuals to simply deliver training on Behavior-Based Safety.
Every site will have its own unique challenges and cultures. To allow the internal consultants the most opportunities for success, it is extremely important that they understand and internalize the strategies to identify the site-specific variables that have or could become, problematic barriers. What works at one site will not always work at another. Lean BBS® utilizes aspects of performance and quality systems to drastically reduce the typical internal resource requirements of a Behavior-Based Safety process. Lean Behavior-Based Safety focuses on the leveraged use of resources, resulting in better results in a shorter time, less disruption to operations, and less resistance from workers and unions.
Multiple Programs In Place: Re-energize Your Existing BBS Process Unfortunately, it is common to see the results from many traditional Behavioral Safety processes plateau after the first two to three years of operation. At that point, the process can become routine and lose the original result-based orientation. The successes that motivated the process early-on disappear and the entire process tends to slowly lose momentum. Successful Behavior-Based Safety processes do not typically fade away, but can be much less effective than they are capable of being. This is the perfect time for BBS process improvement. Improvement strategies can accomplish several important objectives:
· Attain the next step in accident-reduction results through better targeting
· 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 utilizing Lean BBS® techniques to improve results and increase employee participation
· Reduce resource 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
· Focus observations where they will produce the best results
· Learn tactics for continuous process improvement to ensure process sustainability
For a list of the dates, cost and materials that will be provided, please visit our website at www.ProActSafety.com I’d like to close with this, if you only have time to do one thing in safety today, what would it be and how will it contribute to making this a safer world for us all? Thanks for tuning in.
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
