As a result of many requests, I have created a page that lists our favorite books. I hope that you will agree that continuing to “sharpen your saw” (as Covey says), is a critical thing. When I began my first job many, many years ago, my father (Michael A. Galloway) started embedding a principle in me that has proven quite useful. He would always remind me that “no one will ever owe you a job; you have to create and show new value every day”. Because of this principle, I have developed a passion for continuous education. I make time to read as often as possible. I have found this to be invaluable to me and also ensures I can bring new ideas and strategies to the people I work with. The page with the links can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com (or the direct link: http://safetyculture.podbean.com/recommended-reading/ ).
Enjoy!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
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Greetings from Indianapolis, Indiana. “Because of the reactive approach to measuring and managing safety prevalent in the world today, the true definition of safety success has been obscured. The surface definition of safety success on most safety professionals’ minds is simply a reduction in the failure rate. We have been so busy avoiding failure that we need to remind ourselves what success looks like. The word “success” tends to surface every time the accident rates go down, but does the lack of accidents really equate to safety success?” - Terry Mathis
In September’s edition of EHS today another of Terry’s articles was published. We received some great feedback from the article, including a request to record it here for the subscribers of Safety Culture Excellence. So the podcast this week is a reading of the recent article “What Does Safety Success Look Like? by Terry Mathis. It was published on the 1st of September, 2008 in EHS Today. The online article can be found at: http://ehstoday.com/safety/management/safety_success/index.html
If you are listening to this file through streaming media and would like to download it for later use, all files and other ideas to help you bring positive improvement in your safety culture can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com or you can visit our consulting firm’s website at www.proactsafety.com
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Posted in General, Behavior Based Safety, Safety Management, Safety Measurement, Safety Observations, Employee Involvement, Safety Communication, Organizational Safety Culture, Safety Training, Special Topics, Performance Management, Webinars on Oct 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety) lead an online webinar recently for Occupational Health & Safety titled “Building Your Bridge to Safety Culture Excellence” Is an excellent safety culture the chicken or the egg? How do you truly weave safety into the fabric of cultural activities? How do you integrate safety initiatives so they synergize rather than compete for resources? How do you ultimately build the bridge between your current results and true world-class excellence? “The last frontiers of safety excellence can only be crossed by organizations with mature and highly functioning safety cultures.” – Terry Mathis
This seminar explores the integration of cultural formation in the overall picture of safety excellence efforts. The webinar will provide actionable strategies gained from experience innovating safety excellence with more than 125 organizations and 900 global engagements. Learn how to define the tools, the processes, the timetables, and the range of options for creating a truly exceptional safety culture, which produces truly excellent safety results.
The webinar can now be found and played on demand by navigating here: http://ohsonline.com/Webcasts/2008/09/Proact.aspx
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Posted in General, Behavior Based Safety, Safety Management, Safety Measurement, Safety Observations, Employee Involvement, Safety Communication, Organizational Safety Culture, Safety Training, Performance Management, Webinars on Sep 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety) lead an online webinar recently for Occupational Hazards titled “Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure?” We have defined safety for so long as the lack of accidents that we are beginning to lose sight of the objective. When accidents go away for a while is it because of safety success or is it simply luck or normal variation? This free webinar explores what safety might look like rather than simply the lack of accidents. Learn the ten signs that safety is at work in your organization and how to tell if the accidents are responding to your efforts or other forces.
The webinar can now be found and played on demand by navigating here: http://ehstoday.com/webinars/#safety
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Posted in General, Behavior Based Safety, Safety Management, Safety Measurement, Safety Observations, Employee Involvement, Safety Communication, Organizational Safety Culture, Safety Training, Safety & Quality on Sep 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Greetings this week from Indiana, PA - The Christmas Tree capitol of the world! Recently we received the following question: “… Right now i’m struggling with convincing the senior leadership that our good [safety] rates shouldn’t be good enough. Any advice?” Terry Mathis and I thought it would be helpful to respond to this question through a recorded podcast. Visit http://safetyculture.podbean.com for the audio file.
I hope our thoughts are helpful!
Shawn Galloway – ProAct Safety
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Greetings this week from Manchester, England. In the audio podcast this week, I will close out this three-part series by discussing the importance of identifying both some balanced and key indicators that need to be measured and most importantly, communicated.
Enjoy your week!
Shawn Galloway
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Greetings this week from Bury, England. In the audio podcast this week I will be focusing on some of the most common process metrics (that we encourage companies to consider) when implementing or improving a Behavioral Approach to Safety (Behavior-Based Safety - BBS). As this is part two of three-part podcast series, I encourage you listen to part one before moving forward. Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway President & COO
ProAct Safety, Inc.
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Greetings this week from Palatine, Illinois. Dr. Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed”; of course my follow up always is: “If you don’t understand what you are measuring it will still be hard to improve.” In all of our years and experiences auditing and improving all of the major approaches around Behavior Based Safety (BBS); we have found that the most difficult aspect and the area that most sites struggle with, is sustainability. I truly have a belief that if a project fails, it is not that it failed in the end, most likely it failed in the beginning. So to that I am really excited about the audio podcast this week, as it is the beginning of a three part series that focuses on Behavior Based Safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). This audio podcast will start looking at the initial implementation metrics that are used by clients with single locations to organizations rolling this out across multinational facilities. I hope this brings you value and you can find new ways to measure your progress.
Shawn Galloway President & COO
ProAct Safety, Inc.
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Hello everyone I released a topic earlier this week so I’m delivering this as a special midweek podcast about ProAct Safety’s 8th Annual Conference, taking place the 15-17th of April, 2008 in Houston, Texas. If you would like to skip this podcast, I promise there will be no hurt feelings 
We will be back to delivering normal content in a few days.
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