International Safety Excellence Coach Shawn M. Galloway of ProAct Safety shares the five most frequently found perceptions that become dangerous beliefs in organizations on the path to safety excellence. To see more Culture Shock Videos or read Shawn's column in Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine, visit www.cos-mag.com. For all articles, videos and podcasts visit www.ProActSafety.com/Insights or the blog at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com
During the 2011 National Safety Council Congress and Expo, I was interviewed by Carl Green of MetaPower. This conversation is part of their Listening to Learn Series from MP Media. You can find their blog at www.blog.MetaPower.com. The video was produced by Greg Gibson of MP Media/MetaPower International, with assistance from Kevin Healy. You can watch or download the video here, or watch it on YouTube:
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing strategies on how to develop and the key considerations when deciding to carry out self-observations. This can be a great supplement to a Behavior-Based Safety process, or simply as an effective self-coaching tool. As always, customization is a critical first step to ensure sustainability; so take these ideas and make them fit your group. 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.
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Anchorage, Alaska. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the October 2011 edition of EHS Today. It was titled “Safety Measurement: The Dysfunctional Big Picture”. 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
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
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Denver, CO. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the August 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Policing for Results Leads to Management by Voodoo”. 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
In 1990 there were certain beliefs and practices that were viewed as state of the art and acceptable. I’m sure in 2030 we will look back at 2011 and challenge much of what is said today on the topic of behavioral approaches. Here in lies the criticality of never accepting a one-size-fits-all methodology to injury prevention and remaining continuously searching for a better approach. No one has the silver bullet, yet we all together can contribute to making this a safer world by striving for a better way to accomplish our goals through dialogue such as this.
My research and experience with hundreds of global projects in every major industry leads me to believe that the vast majority of incidents (injury, process, equipment damage, etc.) have a conditional, behavioral, organizational, and cultural contributing factor. Now the question is, contributing factor to prevention, or causation? The latter leads people to feel a greater sense of blame than the former. Blame isn’t beneficial for anyone other than those placing it. Moreover, it doesn't facilitate ownership in prevention.
It is my belief that behaviors can indeed prevent and cause an event to occur, they can also be the reason an event was avoided. We must look beyond the behavior and remind ourselves people do things for a reason. If we only address the behavior, without addressing the reason, the sustainability of our intervention strategies will be limited at best. Certainly focusing on behaviors in a vacuum might produce faster results, but is it fast or lasting improvement we want? A little of both would be ideal indeed. I prefer sustainable value-add.
What are your thoughts?
I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to download or play on demand our other podcasts, please visit ProAct Safety’s podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I share 6 basic steps for conducting your own safety perception survey. 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.
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 while on the road in Toronto, Ontario. After seventeen years of working on and developing safety cultures, we receive comments and questions on a weekly basis on how to assess a safety culture. A lot of people believe it can be performed solely by completing a safety perception survey. Remember perception surveys are an indicator of a safety culture, not the indicator of safety cultures.
If you really want to understand your culture, you have to properly assess it. However, it doesn’t have to be that complicated. I realized that there isn’t anything out there that properly describes how to internally accomplish an assessment of a safety culture. So based on ProAct Safety’s experience of assessing over 1,100 safety cultures, I decided to write an article on how to do just that, in seven simple steps.
The article was published in the April 2010 edition of EHS Today. It can be found either at www.EHSToday.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com. I hope you enjoy this reading of Assessing Your Safety Culture in Seven Simple Steps!
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