Safety Culture Excellence®

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: Safety Metrics 101: Expert Insight into Safety Measurement.

To register: http://proactsafety.com/events/safety-metrics-101

I hope to see you there!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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: Developing and Administering a Custom Perception Survey.

To register: http://proactsafety.com/events/developing-custom-perception-survey

I hope to see you there!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Topeka, Kansas. 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, “Safety Measurement: Boring, Uninspiring and Fear-Inducing”. The published article can either be found at www.BICAllliance.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 contact us at podcast @ ProActSafety.com.

Have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc

Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Fort Worth, Texas. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article Terry Mathis (Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety wrote that was published in January 2012 by IndustryWeek. It was titled “Failing Less is NOT a Safety Strategy”. The published article can either be found at www.IndustryWeek.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

I hope to see you there!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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: Leadership Safety Coaching: Teaching Supervisors to be Safety Coaches (Train-the-Trainer)

To register: http://proactsafety.com/events/teaching-supervisors-to-be-safety-coaches

I hope to see you there!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

As requested by many of you, below you will find a link to our public events schedule . We hope to see you at one of these seminars!

http://proactsafety.com/events/event-schedule

International Safety Excellence Coach Shawn M. Galloway of ProAct Safety shares the five most frequently found perceptions that become dangerous beliefs in organizations on the path to safety excellence. To see more Culture Shock Videos or read Shawn's column in Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine, visit www.cos-mag.com. For all articles, videos and podcasts visit www.ProActSafety.com/Insights or the blog at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com

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Have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.

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.

www.ProActSafety.com

Shawn M. Galloway of ProAct Safety discusses how to change workforce behavior through training. MetaPower's Carl Green asks: "How can we design training vehicles with both technical and cultural parameters?" This conversation is Part 2 in the Listening To Learn series from MP Media. Visit the MetaPower Blog for more Messages That Matter: blog.MetaPower.com For more about Shawn Galloway or ProAct Safety visit: www.ProActSafety.com. The interview took place in Philadelphia on October 31, 2011 at the National Safety Council Congress & Expo. Produced by Greg Gibson of MP Media/MetaPower International, with assistance from Kevin Healy. You can watch or download the video here, or watch it on YouTube:

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Have a great week!

Shawn M. Galloway

ProAct Safety, Inc.