Safety Culture Excellence®

Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety) lead an online webinar recently for Occupational Health & Safety titled “Building Your Bridge to Safety Culture Excellence” Is an excellent safety culture the chicken or the egg? How do you truly weave safety into the fabric of cultural activities? How do you integrate safety initiatives so they synergize rather than compete for resources? How do you ultimately build the bridge between your current results and true world-class excellence? “The last frontiers of safety excellence can only be crossed by organizations with mature and highly functioning safety cultures.” – Terry Mathis

This seminar explores the integration of cultural formation in the overall picture of safety excellence efforts. The webinar will provide actionable strategies gained from experience innovating safety excellence with more than 125 organizations and 900 global engagements. Learn how to define the tools, the processes, the timetables, and the range of options for creating a truly exceptional safety culture, which produces truly excellent safety results.

The webinar can now be found and played on demand by navigating here: http://ohsonline.com/Webcasts/2008/09/Proact.aspx

Have a safe week everyone! Visit http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com for the audio file. Have a great week! – Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety

Hello from Barnsley a great area located in South Yorkshire, England.

Visit www.safetycultureexcellence.com for the audio file. Have a safe week! – Shawn Galloway, ProAct Safety

Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety) lead an online webinar recently for Occupational Hazards titled “Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure?” We have defined safety for so long as the lack of accidents that we are beginning to lose sight of the objective. When accidents go away for a while is it because of safety success or is it simply luck or normal variation? This free webinar explores what safety might look like rather than simply the lack of accidents. Learn the ten signs that safety is at work in your organization and how to tell if the accidents are responding to your efforts or other forces.

The webinar can now be found and played on demand by navigating here: http://ehstoday.com/webinars/#safety

Greetings this week from Indiana, PA - The Christmas Tree capitol of the world! Recently we received the following question: “… Right now i’m struggling with convincing the senior leadership that our good [safety] rates shouldn’t be good enough. Any advice?” Terry Mathis and I thought it would be helpful to respond to this question through a recorded podcast. Visit http://safetyculture.podbean.com for the audio file.

I hope our thoughts are helpful!

Shawn Galloway – ProAct Safety

In the pharmaceutical industry product quality really is consumer safety. A few years ago we first began an innovative approch with a major pharmaceutical company. We helped them combine a behavioral approach, to both safety and quality.  Based on this work, they recognized a 50% first year reduction in all incidents with injury, and savings in the millions in quality. Today most companies have a lot of past research, department resources, tools, and lessons learned from quality initiatives available to them. Could some of those resources and experiences be leveraged to create a customized best in class approach to both quality and safety? Absolutely! Today’s podcast is a case study of this success.

While attending the Ohio Safety Congress & Expo last week, I had the pleasure to meet a  group of people who were subscribers of this podcast. They had heard us present a popular analogy of ours called “The Cliff Analogy”, a couple of years ago at another safety conference. They asked that I record it so they could use it as a tool and share in their safety meetings. Thank you very much for subscribing and keep up the good work!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

I hope that you would agree with my belief that training is only as effect as the reinforcement system that follows.

“Lurking inside that required annual safety training is a golden opportunity. World-class safety organizations are increasingly utilizing safety training to build mindsets and skills that are aligned with corporate goals and values. Far from dull, repetitive compliance training, these classes are challenging portals to new levels of safety excellence. These organizations did not transform their safety training overnight. The transformation began with a new awareness of what could be accomplished when you take your workers out of the workplace and put them in a classroom. The notion that even a repetitious annual rehashing of the same material could serve a double purpose inspired a few visionary safety professionals to experiment with the possibilities. The result has been a series of paradigm shifts that could benefit other companies that have not yet tapped into this potential. Paradigm shift #1 Training is an opportunity to focus and motivate.Paradigm shift #2 Training's strategic goals go beyond simple compliance.Paradigm shift #3 Training is ONLY an initiation tool. Paradigm shift #4 Follow-up makes training effective long-term” -Terry Mathis, CEO ProAct Safety, Inc This Podcast includes a reading of an article “Training's Golden Opportunity: Using Compliance Classes to Reach Strategic Safety Goals” which was the cover story and published in June, 2004. This article can be found by navigating to the following links: http://www.ishn.com or http://www.proactsafety.com