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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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Tuesday Jan 17, 2012
Tuesday Jan 17, 2012
Between the recent articles in safety publications and the capsizing of the Costa Concordia, there is a renewed dialogue among safety professionals and others about accident causation. In the first third of the last century Heinrich proposed, from his observations of accident reports, that 88% of all accidents were the result of unsafe acts, 10% from unsafe conditions, and 2% from undetermined causes. One author recently refuted this, mainly citing the tendency to blame employees for accidents when much of the “cause” was due to systems issues controlled by managers.
While there is validity in looking beyond human behavior, there is great danger in overlooking it and its critical role in accidents. We should always look at the “why”, but we can’t forget the “what.” It looks like we have opened the door to a whole new set of terminology around what has been traditionally labeled “immediate cause,” “underlying cause,” “root cause,” and “contributing factor.” If changing terminology or consolidating terminology helps prevent accidents, I am all for it.
From the discussions on line, there may be a need for better developing the talking points around accident causation. It is hard to synergize solutions when it takes 1200 comments in a LinkedIn group just to get everyone agreeing on terms.
The main point that must not get lost in this discussion is the fact that behaviors , regardless of what causes, prompts, or influences them are critical to risk control and, thus critical to accident prevention. We have assumed a lot over the years about what causes human behavior and how to change it. However we approach it in the future, we must not forget it. If a driver swerves into the other lane, the probability of an accident just dramatically increased. THAT is human behavior.
Now, how do we keep drivers in their own lanes? That is the next level. We err when we think that changing the influences on behavior will automatically and completely and immediately change behavior. If we don’t change behavior, we have missed the mark or are shooting at the wrong targets. It is not about blame, it is about prevention.
If we forget this basic premise as we strive to better understand its causes and influences, we are taking a step forward and falling hopelessly backwards. We need to understand the next level of causation or influence or systems issues or whatever we decide to call it so we can use it to shape behavior, not forget it.
Terry L. Mathis
CEO and Founder
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Jan 09, 2012
Monday Jan 09, 2012
Are you integrating safety into your business? If so, great it is a wonderful thing to do. But, have you also integrated your business into safety? One cannot successfully be accomplished without the other. If you are a successful business and are on the path to safety excellence, what business principles and practices helped you become successful in the marketplace? How can those practices enhance other areas of operations like, safety?
If people do not see the same level of efficiency and effectiveness in safety as they do in their business, how excited are they going to be when being told safety needs to be the way they do their business? If we want people to see how safety helps them with their performance, they have to see integration potential from all angles. What practices do you excel at in business and how could those practices enhance the value-add of safety?
You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, or you can watch it below from YouTube.
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Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety
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 Dec 19, 2011
Monday Dec 19, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the December 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Do-It-Yourself Safety Perception Surveys: Six Important Steps”. 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 podcast website at: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Oct 17, 2011
Monday Oct 17, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Monaghan, Ireland. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in my column for Canadian Occupational Safety in October 2011. It was titled “Safety Ideas: To Share or Not to Share?” The published article can either be found at 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: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Oct 10, 2011
Monday Oct 10, 2011
Greetings everyone, this podcast recorded while working in Menomonie, WI. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the September 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Five Steps to Sustainable Safety Culture Excellence”. 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
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Oct 03, 2011
Monday Oct 03, 2011
Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I'm sharing an exercise that I’ve led with thousands of people to self-discover how to move from being perceived as a cop in safety (safety police) to a coach (safety coaching). 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.
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I hope you enjoy and have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.
Monday Sep 26, 2011
Monday Sep 26, 2011
Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Spokane, Washington. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the August 2011 edition of Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine. It was titled “Roles in Safety: Often Misunderstood, Rarely Descriptive”. The published article can either be found at 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: http://www.safetycultureexcellence.com
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Sep 19, 2011
Monday Sep 19, 2011
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
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc
Monday Aug 22, 2011
Monday Aug 22, 2011
Greetings, this podcast was recorded while working in Soda Springs, Idaho. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in June 2011 in my column in BIC Alliance, it was titled, “Deciding To Be the Best Starts With a Few Simple Questions”. The article can either be found by visiting the magazine’s website 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
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc