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.
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
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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!
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings, recorded this podcast from the road in Omaha, Nebraska. Businesses continue to struggle trying to identify different, or better ways to measure safety. In the audio podcast this week, Terry and I discuss the evolution of safety measurement and where the future will take us. We refer this as Safety Measurement 3.0. I hope you enjoy!
Have a great week,
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
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Greetings everyone recorded this on the road in Santa Fe Springs, California. The topic this week is about an upcoming webinar, scheduled for 02 April 2010 titled, Customizing Your Own Safety Perception Survey.
http://www.proactsafety.com/webseminars
A safety culture is made up of common practices, attitudes, and perceptions of risks that influence behavioral choices both at work and away from work. To begin to understand your safety culture, it is critical to recognize the current perceptions that exist within your organization, and the conditioning affect they will have on new employees.
There are standard perception surveys available; however, a one-size approach to understanding safety perceptions is never as effective as a customized approach. The webinar will outline the steps critical for you to internally design, administer, and interpret a customized safety perception survey.
I hope you are able to join us!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings recording this podcast on the road in ST. Agatha, Maine. This week I would like to share with you an article recently written by Terry and published on the 22nd of September 2009 in Workplace HR and Safety’s Safety Email Report. If you would like to see a hard copy of this article please visit www.ProActSafety.com and click on insights. After you are finished listening to this podcast you will hear that I will close a little differently.
I would like you to consider this, if you only have time to do one thing in safety today, what would it be and how will it contribute to making this a safer world for us all? Thanks for tuning in…
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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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.
This audio file can be found at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
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Greetings, this podcast recorded in Canton, Ohio. This week Terry and I would like to share with you an advanced model for improving safety. This is a model that has helped hundreds of international organizations advance beyond traditional safety, to reach and sustain a level of excellence in safety. First, I would like to challenge you with something. As you will hear how this four part model applies to safety, consider the impact this would have on other operational performance areas such as quality, on-time delivery, productivity and others. If you would like a graph of this in a PowerPoint slide, please email us at podcast @ proactsafety.com.
In next week’s podcast we will expand on this topic by discussing a follow-up model that sheds light on the four primary factors that influence risk taking. Thank you for tuning in each week and remember these topics come from the questions we receive while on assignment and from you the listeners. So, keep them coming!
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
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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…
Thanks and have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Welcome everyone recording in The Woodlands, Texas. For this week’s topic I wanted to share with you a recently recorded interview with the two presenters of an upcoming talk at National Safety Council’s 2009 Conference in Orlando Florida. Terry Mathis of our firm ProAct Safety and Rudy Hagen of Georgia-Pacific, LLC will be co presenting a case study titled Measuring Safety Culture at Georgia-Pacific: Methods, Findings, & Results
The talk will take place on the 26th of October 2009 in the 1:30 time slot.
Terry and Rudy will discuss how several Georgia-Pacific sites encountered cultural issues that did not respond to tools that had been successful at other sites. To address this, Georgia-Pacific partnered with ProAct Safety and developed entirely new tools and processes to measure for safety excellence. This new analysis helped to identify problems that were not apparent in audits or perception surveys. By attending this live case study discussion you will learn the methodology, findings, corrective steps, and the impact they had on safety results at these sites. So without further delay, let’s listen in to the recorded interview…
Have a great week!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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Greetings, recording this week in Saratoga, New York. For the podcast this week, Terry and I answer the following client’s question: “We had a Steering Team meeting last week and a concern about data analysis was raised and I have an action item to contact you for your thoughts. During our previous data analysis the least percent safe days of the week were Thursday and Friday, and the least percent safe times were between 6 am and 9 am. So as a Steering Team, we communicated this and tried to target observations during those days and times. During this past data analysis, the least percent Safe days were Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and the least percent safe time was 1 pm. So this is where we are focusing our observations.
Is the improvement due to our target observations or is this something that will always be a moving target? Or does it even matter as long as we are communicating?” – Kelly
Thanks Kelly, before we get into the recording, just a quick announcement I’ll be at the Incident Prevention Conference in Louisville, Kentucky the week of 04 October 2009 and Terry and I both will be at the National Safety Council’s Conference in Orlando the week of 25 October 2009. If you happen to be at either or both, please stop by our booth or one of our talks and say hello. So without further delay, let’s jump right into the discussion.
I hope you enjoy this week’s recording!
Shawn Galloway
ProAct Safety
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