Entries Tagged as 'Keynote Speaker'
388 - The Only Way Safety Will Continuously Improve
May 18th, 2015 · Comments
Tags: Behavior Based Safety · Employee Involvement · Safety Communication · Organizational Safety Culture · Performance Management · Change Management · Articles · Lean Behavior-Based Safety · Off The Job Safety · Leading Safety · Behaviour-Based Safety · Safety Culture and Performance Excellence Strategy · Psychology Safety · Behavior Science · Leading Indicators for Safety · Safety Excellence Strategy · Leadership Safety Coaching · Safety Coaching · Keynote Speaker
374 - Should Safety Pros Work Themselves Out Of Their Jobs?
February 9th, 2015 · Comments

Tags: Articles · Leading Safety · Safety Culture and Performance Excellence Strategy · Safety Culture Excellence · Marketing Safety · Safety Excellence Strategy · Safety Leadership · Keynote Speaker
373 - Misusing Negative Consequences
February 2nd, 2015 · Comments

Tags: Safety Management · Employee Involvement · Safety Communication · Performance Management · Videos · Leading Safety · Safety Culture Excellence · Psychology Safety · Safety Leadership · Keynote Speaker
Leading and Managing Safety
January 28th, 2015 · Comments
If safety is truly a value, and not just a changing priority in an organization, it must be led by the leader of the organization, not simply delegated to a safety professional. Other values such as integrity or honesty are not delegated, but led and demonstrated by organizational leaders.
Many safety professionals are titled as safety managers and, as such, can be delegated the job of managing the safety activities and recordkeeping of the organization. However, if these safety managers are expected to truly lead safety, they find themselves competing with the organizational leaders of finance, engineering or sales. This very delegation suggests that the true goal of the organization is being led by the leader and everything else is less important. Safety becomes a sub-culture led by a sub-leader and takes a secondary and non-integrated priority in the minds of workers. This division can lead to a dichotomy or conflict of priorities in which workers have to choose between pleasing the boss of production or the boss of safety.
Leading safety means establishing the value and walking the talk. Workers take cues from organizational leaders about what is most important. Leaders who regularly talk about safety and lead by personal example make the job of the safety manager much more fluid and truly integrate safety as a core organizational value that is woven into the fabric of daily work.
-Terry L. Mathis
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Terry L. Mathis is the founder and CEO of ProAct Safety, an international safety and performance excellence firm. He is known for his dynamic presentations in the fields of behavioral and cultural safety, leadership, and operational performance, and is a regular speaker at ASSE, NSC, and numerous company and industry conferences. EHS Today listed Terry as a Safety Guru in ‘The 50 People Who Most Influenced EHS three consecutive times. He has been a frequent contributor to industry magazines for over 15 years and is the coauthor of STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence (2013, WILEY).
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372 - Client and Contractor: Aligning Safety Cultures
January 26th, 2015 · Comments

Tags: Organizational Safety Culture · Performance Management · Articles · Safety Culture Assessment · Safety Culture and Performance Excellence Strategy · Safety Culture Excellence · Safety Excellence Strategy · Keynote Speaker