Safety Culture Excellence®: Episodes
Greetings from Colmar France, located in the beautiful region of Alsace. This week I will be concluding Terry’s thoughts on this topic by providing the final part of this four-part series. Terry Mathis will begin by discussing the need for a multidimensional approach to safety, rather than a single ...
Greetings from Corpus Christi, Texas. This week we will be providing part three of this four part series. As always if you have not listening to the previous audio recordings of this topic, I encourage you to do so before continuing; as you will be joining the middle of a conversation. Today we’ll ...
Greetings from Anaheim, California. This week I will be focusing on (part two of this series), how to get out of the avoiding failure mindset and move our thoughts and efforts more proactively. If you think about it, proactive effort is the opposite of reactive effort. Many sites tell us that they perceive ...
Greetings from Manchester England! In July of this year (2008), Terry Mathis the CEO of our Firm (ProAct Safety) delivered a Webinar titled, “Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure?” for Occupational Hazards (now EHS Today). The entire event can be viewed at: http://ehstoday.com/webinars
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Hello from South Wales! There are many things I love about working with global organizations to help them understand and improve their safety cultures, and reach and sustain a level of excellence. My favorite is the opportunity we are provided to take a multidimensional approach within many different ...
Hello from Barnsley a great area located in South Yorkshire, England.
At a recent event a client and a good friend to the firm who is located in beautiful central Washington, asked that we deliver a podcast on a popular topic, that is often a part of our safety culture training materials. The audio podcast [...]
At a recent event a client and a good friend to the firm who is located in beautiful central Washington, asked that we deliver a podcast on a popular topic, that is often a part of our safety culture training materials. The audio podcast [...]
Hello from New Orleans, LA. A recent question to me was this: “Safety Management vs. Safety Leadership, is one better than the other, how might they differentiate?” There has been a lot of debate about leadership vs. management. Obviously they are both important. Depending on the situation, certainly ...
Hello from Avon Lake, Ohio. “Accident or incident, which term is right, which term is preferred, why the difference?”
This recent question to us is often debated throughout the world. Personally in most situations, I tend to lean towards the term “unplanned event”. Many will also expand ...
This recent question to us is often debated throughout the world. Personally in most situations, I tend to lean towards the term “unplanned event”. Many will also expand ...
Greetings this week from Indiana, PA - The Christmas Tree capitol of the world! Recently we received the following question: “… Right now i’m struggling with convincing the senior leadership that our good [safety] rates shouldn’t be good enough. Any advice?” Terry Mathis and I thought it would ...
Hello everyone this is Shawn Galloway, the President and COO of ProAct Safety. This recording is a podcast recording for those that are attending the 2008 National Safety Council Expo in Anaheim, CA the 22-24th of September 2008. Terry Mathis, the CEO of ProAct Safety and I will be speaking at the event ...
Greetings this week from Manchester, England. In the audio podcast this week, I will close out this three-part series by discussing the importance of identifying both some balanced and key indicators that need to be measured and most importantly, communicated.
Enjoy your week!
Shawn Galloway
Enjoy your week!
Shawn Galloway
Greetings this week from Bury, England. In the audio podcast this week I will be focusing on some of the most common process metrics (that we encourage companies to consider) when implementing or improving a Behavioral Approach to Safety (Behavior-Based Safety - BBS). As this is part two of three-part ...
Greetings this week from Palatine, Illinois. Dr. Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets managed”; of course my follow up always is: “If you don’t understand what you are measuring it will still be hard to improve.” In all of our years and experiences auditing and improving all of ...
Hello this week from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. In the audio podcast this week I will be talking about two popular acronyms, SWAT and SWOT and a brief example of how they can apply these to safety. You will hear me tie this to two themes. First it is my belief that we need to be continuously [...]
Hello from Paris, France. For the audio podcast this week I will present an idea, essentially the way that I tend to look at gathered observation (Precaution Taking and Identified Risk) data. Unfortunately the vast majority of other processes that we audit, not enough are sites and methodologies are ...
Greetings from the Normandy Region of France. After many years of auditing all of the existing Behavioral Approaches to Safety, I share with you four (4) critical questions worth asking. I hope that these questions, (certainly not the only questions you should consider) will set you thinking in the ...
Today’s podcast concludes this six part Safety Process Communication Series.
How do you communicate to others and increase the staying power of what you would like others to remember? In other words, how do we make messages sticky? This audio podcast provides insight into one approach that I learned ...
How do you communicate to others and increase the staying power of what you would like others to remember? In other words, how do we make messages sticky? This audio podcast provides insight into one approach that I learned ...
Today’s podcast is part five of a six part Safety Process Communication Series. This week you can listen in to hear me provide examples, questions to ask and introductory information around how to workflow and value stream map your safety communication.
Today’s podcast is part four of a six-part safety process communication series. This week you can listen in to hear about some common leading key performance indicators (KPIs) for your safety process and what real communication looks like. Remember friends, communication happens best as dialogue not ...
There are many ways we are able to communicate with others, however too often we send out an email or post information on a wall and poof, believe that communication has occurred. This podcast covers some of the ways that we try to communicate with others in safety and the fallacy of our beliefs and [...]