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281 - Safety Committee Development - A ProAct Safety Workshop

March 18th, 2013 · Comments

This workshop will focus on the attributes that are needed to form a successful Safety Committee.   It will also help explore what the Safety Committee will be responsible for to create and sustain a successful safety program. The objectives for this workshop include: 1. Develop a focus on transformational opportunities. 2. Teach the team how to accomplish a Transformational Pareto Analysis that identifies the significant few behavioral and variable leverage points for safety improvement. 3. Develop the committee's capability to focus, develop and prioritize action plans and effectively communicate status and success of efforts. 4. Help the committee to discovery-learn the most important items to focus on and develop ownership needed in a behavioral approach to safety. 5. Create a culturally-shared perception that the site safety committee is successful and worthy of volunteer effort. 6. Create a successful committee that prompts other employees to seek out opportunities to become involved. 7. Create a sense of self-accountability among the team for what they need to do to create the desirable results. 8. Create a team capable of driving internally-led change that produces a significant reduction in incident rates and exposure to risk, but also increases shared-ownership for safety excellence.

For more information contact ProAct Safety at 936.273.8700 or info (at) ProActSafety.com

For more detailed strategies to achieve and sustain excellence in performance and culture, pick up a copy of our book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence, available through WILEY (publisher), Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Shawn M. Galloway ProAct Safety www.ProActSafety.com

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273 - Developing A Custom Perception Survey - A ProAct Safety Workshop

January 21st, 2013 · Comments

The fact that perceptions affect safety cultures is undeniable, yet the best intending organizations often pay little attention to perceptions and the conditioning affect they have on new employees or the company. Whether accurate or not, perceptions become culturally-norming beliefs. When these common beliefs are combined with unclear values, potentially negative attitudes, and hypercompetitive priorities, a dangerous mixture of influences is placed on individuals attempting to solve problems in day-to-day operations. The need to understand perceptions and what drives them is critical.

Many organizations measure perceptions, but few effectively manage them. There are two types of perceptions: accurate and inaccurate. Which ones are you responding to? Perceptions are influenced by multiple sources, both internal and external. Unmanaged perceptions negatively affect safety communication. Even worse, they have been identified as contributing factors in multiple catastrophic incidents.

Culture is made up of common practices, attitudes, and perceptions of risks that influence behavioral choices at work and away from work. Culture is also influenced by management, leadership, supervision, workplace conditions, and logistics. Measuring a culture involves a complex metric of perceptions, workplace realities, past accident history, and inter-connectivity of the people.

Perceptions are an important consideration when determining methods to improve safety or other aspects of performance. Perceptions affect behaviors, and they should be measured to determine a starting place for cultural modification efforts. Perception surveys can help identify areas for improvement and can serve as a baseline for measuring the effectiveness of improvement efforts.

The workshop focuses on how to measure, understand, and manage the perceptions that either facilitate or impede achieving and sustaining safety excellence. Attendees will be provided with extensive examples of perception survey report templates and detailed examples of different reporting styles.

During this workshop you will learn how to:

  • Build Support
  • Define the scope
  • Determine the goals
  • Define the users and audience
  • Define terminology
  • Determine categories and appropriate statement
  • Tools to analyze and categorize findings
  • How to administer electronically and manually
  • How to maintain trust in the survey process and hidden pitfalls to avoid
  • Categorize the results by focusing on internally-implementable action plans

For more information contact ProAct Safety at 936.273.8700 or info (at) ProActSafety.com

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety

www.ProActSafety.com

www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com

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246 - Safety Motivation: Hands and Feet, or Hearts and Minds?

July 16th, 2012 · Comments

Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Bethesda, Maryland. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in April 2012 in my column in BIC Magazine. It was titled, Safety Motivation: Hands and Feet, or Hearts and Minds? 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: www.safetycultureexcellence.com. If you would like access to archived podcasts (older than 90 days – dating back to January 2008) please visit www.ProActSafety.com/Store.

Have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc

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Tags: Safety Management · Employee Involvement · Performance Management · Change Management · Articles · Safety Incentives and Rewards · Leading Safety · Safety Culture Excellence

238 - Perception Surveys: Myths and Managing Results

May 21st, 2012 · Comments

Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Soda Springs, Idaho. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in March 2012 in my column in BIC Magazine. It was titled, Perception Surveys: Myths and Managing Results. The published article can either be found at www.BICAllliance.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. If you would like access to archived podcasts (older than 90 days – dating back to January 2008) please visit www.ProActSafety.com/Store.

Have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc

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Tags: Employee Involvement · Organizational Safety Culture · Change Management · Articles · Safety Perception Surveys · Safety Culture Assessment

235 - Safety Beyond The Workplace - Culture Shock with Shawn M. Galloway

April 30th, 2012 · Comments

Greetings all! How can you help employees see how safety improves their life outside of work? Do they make the connection? If not, now is the time before it is too late. For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing an important message to challenge you to make sure safety ideas transfer outside of the job site. 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:

I hope you enjoy and have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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Tags: Safety Management · Employee Involvement · Home Safety · Videos · Off The Job Safety · Leading Safety

221 - Behavior-Based Safety 101 Workshops

February 10th, 2012 · Comments

Greetings everyone, I wanted to share with you a new workshop we have created to help you further improve your safety culture and performance and achieve safety culture excellence. To see the currently scheduled dates and locations around the world, please visit www.proactsafety.com and click on the events tab. If you would like information on a private workshop, seminar, keynote speech or consulting, contact us at info @ proactsafety.com This particular workshop is titled: Behavior-Based Safety 101.

To register: http://proactsafety.com/events/bbs-101

I hope to see you there!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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Tags: Behavior Based Safety · Employee Involvement · Lean Behavior-Based Safety · Safety Culture/BBS Workshops · Leading Safety · Unions and Behavior-Based Safety · Behavior-Based Safety Software · Behaviour-Based Safety · Public Events

219 - 11th Annual Behavior-Based Safety Conference Video - April 2012

February 6th, 2012 · Comments

Greetings everyone! I’m excited to announce the release of our video promoting our upcoming 11th Annual Behavior-Based Safety Conference in Houston, Texas this April 2012. You can watch or download the video here or stream it from YouTube

Pre-Conference: April 16, 2012 General Conference: April 17-18, 2012 Post-Conference: April 19, 2012

For the brochure, detailed agenda or to signup, please visit:

www.BBSConference.com

I hope to see you there. Have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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Tags: Behavior Based Safety · Safety Measurement · Safety Observations · Employee Involvement · Organizational Safety Culture · Safety Training · Performance Management · Lean Behavior-Based Safety · Safety Culture/BBS Workshops · Behavior-Based Quality · Unions and Behavior-Based Safety · Behavior-Based Safety Software · Safety Conference · Behaviour-Based Safety · Public Events

213 – Shawn Galloway’s Theory of Internalization of Focus

December 26th, 2011 · Comments

Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'd like to share with you one of my models that explains my theory on how we can help people internalize a needed focus in safety. If we want people to be safe, this means risk-free. For this to happen, safety strategies need to be portable and facilitate internalization. I hope you will use these steps to help the people you are supporting in safety. You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, or you can watch it below from YouTube.

I hope you enjoy and have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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Tags: Behavior Based Safety · Safety Management · Employee Involvement · Organizational Safety Culture · Performance Management · Home Safety · Change Management · Lean Behavior-Based Safety · Videos · Off The Job Safety · Leading Safety · Behaviour-Based Safety

203 - Safety Ideas: To Share Or Not To Share?

October 17th, 2011 · Comments

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

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Tags: Safety Management · Employee Involvement · Organizational Safety Culture · Change Management · Articles · Leading Safety

193 - Changing Filters to See Things More Clearly - Culture Shock with Shawn M. Galloway

August 8th, 2011 · Comments

Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing a story of how my perspective was changed. This reinforced my desire to help others change the lens in which they look at life through. This is critical for self-discovery, which is vital to true performance excellence. 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.

I hope you enjoy and have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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Tags: Employee Involvement · Organizational Safety Culture · Change Management · Videos