Entries Tagged as 'Safety Culture Assessment'
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
Tags: Safety Observations · Employee Involvement · Organizational Safety Culture · Change Management · Videos · Safety Perception Surveys · Safety Culture Assessment · Public Events · Safety Culture Excellence · Leading Indicators for Safety
December 24th, 2012 · Comments
As a leader, you may have heard someone at your company say something like the following - usually after an accident or near-miss: "We need to improve our safety culture." The problem is, a "safety culture" isn't something you can just pick up like a new batch of hard hats or ear plugs. It's something that needs to run deeply through your organization at all levels - something that goes beyond mere lip service and inspirational "safety first" posters. So how do you go about getting, or improving, a true culture of safety at your workplace? In this workshop you'll learn how.
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
Tags: Safety Management · Safety Measurement · Organizational Safety Culture · Videos · Safety Culture/BBS Workshops · Safety Culture Assessment · Safety Culture and Performance Excellence Strategy · Safety Culture Excellence
December 10th, 2012 · Comments
Use the latest Behavior-Based Safety Technologies for spearheading safety process improvement, borrowing proven techniques from Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and experiences from over 1,500 successful implementations.
Create a customized plan to assess and improve site and/or organizational safety culture. Common myths about safety culture will be dispelled and a good working definition will be developed to empower understanding and customization. Assessment methodologies will be discussed and compared and each participant will see how to best determine the cultural strengths and improvement opportunities.
Based on the assessment findings, plans will be formulated to find the most practical and effective strategies to build on cultural strengths and address weaknesses. Opportunities will be investigated to utilize other site improvement initiatives to aid in the cultural improvement plans. All plans will conclude with measurement strategies to ensure long-term change viability and early identification of problems.
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
Tags: Behavior Based Safety · Safety Management · Safety Measurement · Organizational Safety Culture · Safety Culture Excellence Conference · Lean Behavior-Based Safety · Videos · Safety Culture/BBS Workshops · Safety Culture Assessment · Behavioral Quality · Behavior-Based Quality · Behavior-Based Safety Software · Behaviour-Based Safety · Safety Culture and Performance Excellence Strategy · Safety Culture Excellence · Behavior Science · Leading Indicators for Safety
July 23rd, 2012 · Comments
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Indianapolis, IN. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article Terry Mathis wrote that was published in April 2012 in his column in EHS Today Magazine. It was titled, Step 1 of a Safety Excellence Strategy. The published article can either be found at www.EHSToday.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
Tags: Safety Management · Organizational Safety Culture · Performance Management · Change Management · Articles · Leading Safety · Safety Culture Assessment · Safety Culture and Performance Excellence Strategy · Safety Culture Excellence
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
Tags: Employee Involvement · Organizational Safety Culture · Change Management · Articles · Safety Perception Surveys · Safety Culture Assessment
March 12th, 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: Developing and Administering a Custom Perception Survey.
To register: http://proactsafety.com/events/developing-custom-perception-survey
I hope to see you there!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Tags: Safety Management · Safety Measurement · Safety Perception Surveys · Safety Culture Assessment · Public Events
December 19th, 2011 · Comments
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the December 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Do-It-Yourself Safety Perception Surveys: Six Important Steps”. 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 podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Tags: Organizational Safety Culture · Articles · Safety Perception Surveys · Leading Safety · Safety Culture Assessment
October 10th, 2011 · Comments
Greetings everyone, this podcast recorded while working in Menomonie, WI. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the September 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Five Steps to Sustainable Safety Culture Excellence”. 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: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Tags: Safety Management · Organizational Safety Culture · Safety & Quality · Performance Management · Change Management · Articles · Safety Culture/BBS Workshops · Safety Culture Assessment
September 19th, 2011 · Comments
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Plover, Wisconsin. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the August 2011 edition of EHS Today Magazine. It was titled “Establishing a Sustainable Safety Culture”. The published article can either be found at www.EHSToday.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
Tags: Safety Management · Safety Measurement · Organizational Safety Culture · Change Management · Articles · Safety Culture Assessment
June 27th, 2011 · Comments
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Blacklick, Ohio where I’m leading a private Lean Behavior-Based Safety® Internal Consultant Workshop for a great organization. If this is something you are interested in, or would like to join a scheduled public workshop, please visit: http://www.proactsafety.com/events for a schedule. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article written by Terry L. Mathis that was published April 2011 in EHS Today. It was titled “Safety Culture: A Matter of Characteristics or Capabilities?” The published article can be found at the magazine’s website at www.EHSToday.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 Safety Culture Excellence® podcasts, please visit the ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Tags: Safety Management · Organizational Safety Culture · Change Management · Articles · Leading Safety · Safety Culture Assessment