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Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Galveston, Texas. For this week I’d like to share a White Paper Terry Mathis and I wrote titled “Using Podcasts to Improve Safety: A Versatile New Communication Media” that was published as a conference paper for American Society of Safety Engineers Safety 2010. The published article can be found 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
Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Baltimore, Maryland. This is now our 137th podcast and Safety Culture Excellence is now over 2 ½ years old! Thank you to all of our subscribers. Terry Mathis and I have been overwhelmed by the amount of appreciation we receive via email and calls from people telling us how much these podcasts have helped them improve safety. Thank you for that. This is exactly why we continue to provide them.
As a result of our success with podcasting, Terry and I wrote an article called Using Podcasts to Improve Safety. American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) has a magazine called Professional Safety. They were kind enough to publish this article in their best practices section in the May 2010 edition. The article can either be found on the magazine’s website: http://www.asse.org/professionalsafety/archive.php or with all of our other articles at: http://www.ProActSafety.com/articlesbyproactsafetystaff
We also spoke on this subject at the recent Safety 2010, ASSE Conference. Several people in the audience asked for more information on podcasting, Terry and I will provide this information in a podcast that we hope to release in the coming months. 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
Thanks again for all you do to contribute to safety! Have a great week!
Greetings everyone for the podcast this week, I’d like to share a short video I recorded on the importance of sticky communication and return on attention. The title is Leadership Communication: Sticky ROA. To be a great leader, your communication needs to be effective, thus ensuring knowledge transfer. You can either download this short clip here from this site (www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com or watch it below from or on YouTube.
I hope this video prompts some thoughts that help you become a better leader and communicator.
Greetings, this podcast recorded in East Brunswick, New Jersey. Last week Terry and I talked about the four (4) part model, FILM – Focus, Influence, Listen and Measure. If you haven’t listened to last week’s podcast I highly encourage you to go back and do so first, prior to continuing with this topic as this one builds on last week’s model. This week we sat down and discussed the four primary factors that influence risk taking. I hope you will be able to find a way to apply these models to your organization. If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact us. All of our contact information can be found at www.ProActSafety.com.
Greetings, this podcast recorded in San Antonio, Texas. Both of my parents were born in San Antonio and I still have a lot of family here, including a family ranch with Texas Longhorns on it. Go figure I’m from Texas and my family has a Longhorn Cattle Ranch, who would of thought. Moreover I bet you wouldn’t be surprised to find my family runs a horse farm and my sister is a Equestrian Hunter/Jumper horse trainer. What is this a Dallas Episode? Anyways sorry for the digression, back to the topic here in San Antonio.
Wikipedia defines a black hole as “a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, including light, can escape its pull. The black hole has a one-way surface, called an event horizon, into which objects can fall, but out of which nothing can come. It is called “black” because it absorbs all the light that hits it, reflecting nothing…”
In a previous podcast I referred to how a black hole could apply in safety, calling this phenomenon a “Black Hole Safety System”. This is where safety information goes in and nothing comes out. For this week, Terry and I will talk about this topic in more detail. We will provide some examples of what this looks like in an organization, and steps to correct and avoid such an undesirable element of any organizational systems.
Greetings, recording this week in Marysville, Kansas. Just a quick note about some upcoming public events: On the 15th and 16th of September Terry Mathis will be in Seattle, Washington leading two one-day public sessions that are part of the Safety Culture Excellence Series. On the 15th he will be leading a seminar titled Advanced Tactics for Behavior-Based Safety: Lean Principles & Results Orientation. The following day will be covering Leadership Safety Coaching: Teach Your Supervisors to be Safety Coaches.
Then on the 28th and 29th of September I will be conducting two one day workshops for the Saskatchewan Section of American Society of Quality. Each One-Day Workshop is titled: Lean Behaviour-Based Safety & Safety Culture Excellence. If you would like more information about these workshops or other upcoming events, please visit www.ProActSafety.com and click on the events category at the top.
So on to this week’s topic. “Most people view perceptions as something to be measured; not managed. But I have found that if perceptions are not managed, they will have variance that can cause lack of correct focus in safety efforts. Workers who do not accurately perceive their greatest risks often waste their limited safety efforts on ineffective strategies. Correcting perceptions can direct safety efforts for maximum effectiveness.” – Terry Mathis.
In the June 2009 edition of EHS Today, Terry Mathis, the Founder and CEO of our firm ProAct Safety, published an article that has created quite a buzz among safety professionals and executive leaders. For this week, I’d like to share a recording of that article and challenge you to consider if the message applies to your company. If you would like to see the actual article, please visit EHS Today’s website at www.EHSToday.com or you can find it along with a lot of other free content to improve your safety focus on our website at www.proactsafety.com. So without further delay, let’s get to the article…
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.
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
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!
Greetings, recording and editing this week from The Woodlands, Texas. The topic this week comes from a subscriber who sent us the following message: “Our company is rolling out a campaign that says, There Are No Accidents! This is creating some disconnect between the union and management with a lot guys thinking that management is out of touch with safety issues. What are your thoughts on this? Do you believe this is true, that there are no accidents?”
This week Terry and I will respond to this question but let me first say that I believe that this message usually is well intended. There are some videos available on the internet that leverages this slogan. Typically the message is positioned to get people to see that all accidents have a prevention opportunity somewhere along the chain of events. The thought is that if you can focus everyone on seeing these prevention points we can often stop the chain of events from resulting in an unplanned outcome. It is often easy to utilize a saying to spread a message as it gives people something to associate their thoughts with. The danger is when posters are hung and slogans are haphazardly used without thoroughly and effectively communicating the message. On another note, please do not forget to visit www.proactsafety.com and click on events to find where we will be speaking at or the dates for one of our public workshops.
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