
Episodes

Monday Apr 26, 2021
687: Safety for New Hires
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
Hello, welcome to the Safety Culture Excellence podcast, brought to you by ProAct Safety, the world leader of safety excellence.


Monday Mar 22, 2021
683: Managing Upward
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Hello, welcome to the Safety Culture Excellence podcast, brought to you by ProAct Safety, the world leader of safety excellence.


Monday Jan 11, 2021
673: Actionable Data
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Hello, welcome to the Safety Culture Excellence podcast, brought to you by ProAct Safety, the world leader of safety excellence.


Monday Nov 23, 2020
666: Overloading New Employees
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Hello, welcome to the Safety Culture Excellence podcast, brought to you by ProAct Safety, the world leader of safety excellence.


Monday Dec 10, 2018
573: Checking Off The Box
Monday Dec 10, 2018
Monday Dec 10, 2018


Tuesday Aug 12, 2014
STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence Workshop - October 2014
Tuesday Aug 12, 2014
Tuesday Aug 12, 2014

Based on the book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence, the authors will lead this workshop and provide a detailed roadmap on how to develop a three to five year safety excellence business plan. This two-day workshop is limited to ten participants. It would be helpful if each attendee read the book prior to the event to escalate the discovery process.

ProAct Safety® recently compiled data on over 1,100 sites that requested our help in improving safety. The commonalities of these sites' issues has led to a new approach to solving safety problems and permanently implementing continuous improvement. The approach includes organizational structure, problem identification, issue prioritization, action plan development, improvement metrics, and a motivational and marketing strategy to ensure sustainability. The process is called STEPS (Strategic Targets for Excellent Performance in SafetySM).
Objectives:
- Develop a solid understanding of a safety excellence strategy
- Learn the leading causes of safety program ineffectiveness and failure
- Examine a standard methodology used by excellent safety organizations to identify virtually any type of safety issue or problem
- Learn to use statistical tools to prioritize issues by their potential impact
- Learn to develop action plans to solve safety problems
- Explore innovative ways to measure success and progress
- Discover how one process can replace multiple programs and allow for seamless transition of focus without causing a flavor-of-the-month culture
Workshop Takeaways - Attendees will be provided with:
- Electronic Materials (Templates) to return to their organization and facilitate discussions for the creation of their unique safety excellence strategy.
- A 60-Minute Recorded High-Level Webinar outlining the key STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence methodologies. This will help convey the messages and build support and understanding for the necessary path forward. Moreover, this can also help during on-boarding of future leaders to provide an understanding of why the strategy was created, furthering the future support necessary as the organization continuously improves safety performance and culture and acquires or promotes new leadership talent.
- Access to Shawn M. Galloway or Terry L. Mathis from 8 am to 5 pm CT during the week by email and phone for one month following the workshop, to help support efforts by coaching and advising through the initial creation of the strategy. If not immediately available, calls and emails will be returned within 24 hours.
- A personalized autographed copy of the book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence.
For more information, visit this link.
See you there!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety, Inc.

Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Measuring Safety Culture Maturity: A Better Way
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Wednesday Jul 09, 2014
Forget the old ways of measuring safety culture maturity. There is a new, more effective way to measure cultural maturity and it starts with looking at the chemistry.

In consulting globally with many of the best in safety performance and culture, nine elements (see the picture with this post) have been identified as most important foci to establish the chemistry which facilitates the necessary climate for a culture of safety excellence to grow. Through consulting engagements and workshops, these nine elements have been successfully leveraged and measured to help organizations identify both their starting point baseline, and also to strategically prioritize which elements to focus on to advance the capabilities of their safety culture.

If you have read my work, participated in any of my workshops or keynote presentations or worked with me directly, you will know I work hard to always provide more take-away tools than motivational fluff. If I was able to provide the framework to facilitate the internal dialogue in article format, I would.
To assist you on your journey to safety excellence, I would like to share this tool with you. To obtain a copy for your internal use, send an email to info@proactsafety.com with the subject of Please Send Chemistry of SCE and our staff will respond at our earliest opportunity.
Cultures will always influence the beliefs and behaviors of employees and contractors as they join the group. You can either manage the chemistry, climate and culture, or the results in any area of operational performance will be managed by them. I invite you to start the conversation to strategically enhance the safety aspect of your company culture and measure your progress by contributed value, not just the lowering of injury rates.
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Shawn M. Galloway is the President and COO of ProAct Safety. He writes (and tweets:@safetyculture) about his work helping organizations in all industries to achieve and sustain excellence in their culture and performance. He resides near Houston, Texas with his wife and three children.

Monday Jun 09, 2014
340 - STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence Workshop
Monday Jun 09, 2014
Monday Jun 09, 2014
A workshop about developing and executing against a comprehensive strategy to significantly enhance injury prevention efforts and measurably evolve the culture, by the thought-leaders at ProAct Safety
Based on the recent book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence, the authors will lead this workshop and provide a detailed roadmap on how to develop a three to five year safety excellence business plan. This two-day workshop is limited to ten participants. It would be helpful if each attendee read the book prior to the event to escalate the discovery process.
For more information visit: http://proactsafety.com/events/steps-to-safety-culture-excellence-workshop
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety
www.ProActSafety.com
www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com

Monday Mar 31, 2014
335 – Who Should Implement Behavior Based Safety?
Monday Mar 31, 2014
Monday Mar 31, 2014
Greetings everyone, this podcast recorded while in Anchorage, Alaska. I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published March 2014 in BIC Magazine. The published article can either be found on the magazine’s website 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. For more detailed strategies to achieve and sustain excellence in performance and culture, pick up a copy of our book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence - http://proactsafety.com/insights/steps-to-safety-culture-excellence
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety

Monday Mar 24, 2014
334 – Misunderstanding the Role of Safety Culture Assessments
Monday Mar 24, 2014
Monday Mar 24, 2014
Greetings everyone, this podcast recorded while in my home in Texas. I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published March 2014 in Occupational Health and Safety Magazine. The published article can either be found on the magazine’s website 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. For more detailed strategies to achieve and sustain excellence in performance and culture, pick up a copy of our book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence - http://proactsafety.com/insights/steps-to-safety-culture-excellence
Have a great week!
Shawn M. Galloway
ProAct Safety