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Safety Culture Excellence is a weekly series designed to support your efforts towards excellence in performance and culture. For more information or to contact the host, visit www.ProActSafety.com.
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Monday Aug 20, 2012
Monday Aug 20, 2012
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Topeka, KS. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in June 2012 in my column in BIC Magazine. It was titled, Behavior-Based Safety: Use the Data or Don’t Bother. 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. 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
Sunday Jun 03, 2012
Sunday Jun 03, 2012
Greetings all! Probability is a factor that masks risks from many workers. This video explains how low-probability risks look ok when they are really not. It does so without criticizing workers for not seeing these hard-to-understand risks and the importance of avoiding them. ProAct Safety provides more strategies in the area of safety culture and safety excellence in the public domain than any other firm, organization or association. For access to increased, advanced value in the form of videos, podcasts, public workshops and seminars, please visit www.ProActSafety.com/Store
You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com or you can watch it below from YouTube.
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I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday May 07, 2012
Monday May 07, 2012
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in February 2012 in my column in BIC Magazine. It was titled, “Behavior-Based Safety A Streamlined Cost-Conscious Approach That Brings Results”. The published article can either be found at www.BLR.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
Friday Feb 10, 2012
Friday Feb 10, 2012
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: Behavior-Based Safety 101.
To register: http://proactsafety.com/events/bbs-101
I hope to see you there!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Feb 06, 2012
Monday Feb 06, 2012
Greetings everyone! I’m excited to announce the release of our video promoting our upcoming 11th Annual Behavior-Based Safety Conference in Houston, Texas this April 2012. You can watch or download the video here or stream it from YouTube
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Pre-Conference: April 16, 2012 General Conference: April 17-18, 2012 Post-Conference: April 19, 2012
For the brochure, detailed agenda or to signup, please visit:
I hope to see you there. Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Jan 30, 2012
Monday Jan 30, 2012
Greetings all! I’m excited announce the agenda for this year’s Behavior-Based Safety Conference. The ProAct Safety’s 11th Annual Conference is scheduled for 17-18 April 2012. There are pre-conference events on 16 April and post-conference session on the 19th. If you would like more information on the event or would like to register, please visit: http://proactsafety.com/events/annual-conference
I hope to see you there!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Dec 26, 2011
Monday Dec 26, 2011
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'd like to share with you one of my models that explains my theory on how we can help people internalize a needed focus in safety. If we want people to be safe, this means risk-free. For this to happen, safety strategies need to be portable and facilitate internalization. I hope you will use these steps to help the people you are supporting in safety. You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, or you can watch it below from YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6xXN8HXJh4]
I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Monday Sep 05, 2011
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing a vital methodology used by many global organizations, to help improve the performance of critical employees at any level of the organization. As always, customization is a critical first step to ensure sustainability. 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.
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I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Jun 13, 2011
Monday Jun 13, 2011
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
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Friday May 27, 2011
Friday May 27, 2011
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?
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
www.ProActSafety.com