Safety Culture Excellence is a weekly audio series designed to assist you on your journey, towards either achieving or sustaining Safety Culture Excellence. For more information: www.ProActSafety.com
Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Irvine, Scotland. For this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “The Folly of Safety Training” that was published the June 2010 edition of Occupational Health and Safety.The published article can either be found at http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/06/01/the-folly-of-safety-training.aspx?sc_lang=en or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com. I hope you enjoy this reading of The Folly of Safety Training.
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Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Sheffield, England. For this 138th podcast, I’d like to share an article I wrote called, “An Unlikely Tool to Improve Safety”. It was published 10 May 2010 in my monthly column for Canadian Occupational Safety.The article can either be found at http://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: www.safetycultureexcellence.com.
Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in Bethesda, Maryland. For this week’s podcast I’d like to share an article that was fun to write and is to me a fun topic, visible support for safety. The article was titled, “Heard It Through The Grapevine” and was published in April 2010 edition of Incident Prevention Magazine. The published article can either be found at http://www.incident-prevention.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com. I hope you enjoy this reading of “Heard It Through The Grapevine”!
Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in Denver Colorado. In the podcast last week I provided an audio recording of an article of mine that was published in the April Edition of EHS Today. It was titled “Assessing Your Safety Culture in Seven Simple Steps”.
For the podcast this week I would like to provide the follow-up article that was published in the May 2010 edition of EHS Today. This one was titled, “Establishing A Culture Of Safety Excellence: Strategies Worth Repeating”. Both of these articles can either be found at www.EHSToday.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com. I hope you enjoy this reading of Establishing A Culture Of Safety Excellence: Strategies Worth Repeating!
I hope you will see how easily the model shared in the article is to apply and the potential benefits it will bring you as it has for hundreds of sites around the world. So I hope it gets you thinking. Here we go!
Bonjour! Recording this on the road in Colmar, France.The topic this week, “Can You Name Your Last Three Safety Committee Successes?” says a lot about team effectiveness and communication. This is a question we always ask when assessing volunteerism or some employees call it voluntold. Either way, when we are looking at improving an existing team or creating a new one, we have to look at past effectiveness and perception of effectiveness.If people do not view past teams or committees as effective, they are less likely to want to be on one. Now is that perception accurate or not? Often we find that with the average safety team or safety committee, the only ones that know of their successes, are the members themselves and unfortunately, no one else. Sometimes the improvement efforts do not need to focus on effectiveness; it is communication that needs the help.So Terry and I would like to share our thoughts on this topic and how to assess this issue in your organization. So let’s get started…
Buongiorno! Recording on the road this week in Milan, Italy. It is easy for an organization to fall into the trap of overreacting to an accident or incident. The way we respond to the event, most definitely impacts both the culture, and the future reporting of accidents/incidents/mishaps. Yet, not enough attention is placed on this topic. Terry and I sat down and provided our thoughts on this. We welcome you to provide yours either as a comment on the site (www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com), or by emailing us at podcast@proactsafety.com. So, on with the topic!
Greetings from the road this week in Barnsley, England. Before we get started with the topic for this week, I wanted to let you know that we have identified the dates for ProAct Safety’s Annual Conference. If you would like to mark it on your calendar, it will be the 6th – 8th of April 2010. I hope you can make it out, as we would love to see you there!
So for this week, we have an 8-step recommendation for responding to an accident after implementing Behavior-Based Safety.
1.Set Realistic Expectations
2.Stress the Importance
3.Stress The sense of Vulnerability
4.Ask the question do we have the behavior or precaution on our checklist that could have helped prevent or minimize the injury?
5.Ask what is the percent safe for that precaution?
6.Ask could we have seen this coming?
7.Ask how long until we can get on top of this?
8.Ask what can I do as a facilitator and coach to help you help us improve safety?
So Terry and I are going to discuss all of these steps in length. With that let’s jump into the discussion about these guidelines…
Greetings! Recording this podcast live in Orlando Florida. Recently we were at NSC’s (National Safety Council) 2009 Congress and Expo. We both spoke on some important topics during the conference, and we thought it would be fun to record a live podcast on the show floor; to celebrate 100 podcasts! While this was, we realize it is not the same sound quality you are used to so my apologies in advance for that. If you have any difficulty with the sound, keep in mind that we transcribe these podcasts and place the text (what we call show notes) on our website at www.proactsafety.com and click on insights then podcasts.
This week we wanted to share a very simple three-step coaching model for coaching for safety performance. As you listen to this model consider how easily it can be applied to other performance objectives. I’d like to thank those of you who participated in the live recording and also those who took the time to stop by our booth and say hello. It is always great to meet the listeners to this podcast in person as you are the reason Terry and I record these podcasts. I hope you are sharing these topics and the principles of safety with your coworkers, friends and families.
Greetings everyone, my name is Shawn Galloway, I’m the President of ProAct Safety and the Host of Safety Culture Excellence. As you are aware since January 2008 we have provided free weekly audio podcasts to help you achieve and sustain excellence in safety. Starting in 2010 we will add monthly videos that you can use for your own professional development, or to help motivate the safety element of the culture. This week is the first of many videos to come.
If you only have time to focus on one thing in safety this month, what would it be and how will it help create a safer world for us all? Thank you so much for all that you do to help us create a safer community.