Safety Culture Plus

I attended several safety conferences this year speaking on various topics. I usually give away a book at each presentation. However, this year I decided to ask anyone who wanted a chance to win a book to sign up at either website http://ow.ly/x2je or http://ow.ly/x2jA by Dec 1, 2009. You could register at both sites if you wish, as the first site has many safety links and the second site is my blog.

I will have a drawing from all those who have registered since June 2009 and pick 3 winners. The winner will have a choice of the book that they which to receive:

I have provided the link to Amazon, so if you would like to review the content and reviews of these books you can. Just click on the book and you will go directly to Amazon.  You feedback is also appreciated.

Remember, you must register at either website http://ow.ly/x2je or http://ow.ly/x2jA by Dec 1, 2009 to win.

If you are not a member of the Linkedin safety training group, http://ow.ly/x2kw or social networking 101 group http://ow.ly/x2lw, you are welcome to join. It is all FREE. If you are also member of these sites, pass along this information to others.

You can also follow me on twitter @jamesroughton or @safeday

Enjoy!! If you have any questions you can contact me at jr@gotsafety.net. I enjoy networking opportunities.

Ideas and thoughts adapted from my very old US Army leadership card:

SUPERVISION IS: The art of checking on the progress of actions and job assignments without harassment or taking on the job yourself.

LEADERSHIP IS: The art of influencing and directing personnel to obtain willing teamwork, confidence, respect and cooperation to accomplish the daily task assignment. Leadership is essential in developing a solid safety and health attitude among personnel

INDICATIONS OF LEADERSHIP:

• Morale – The morale of my area is high (How do I know?)
• “Esprit De Corps” – My personnel act as a Team (How do I know?)

• Discipline – My work areas and personnel clearly show quality and orderliness (How do I know?)

• Proficiency – My personnel know how to properly do their tasks (How do I know?)

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This article in the first paragraph says it all about safety culture.  His statement about he come to realization that my employers do not have the slightest clue of what a safety culture really is.  This is a must read article.  I have the conclusion based on my result.  You can also see what my thoughts is through my two book that are published on How to Develop and Effective Safety Culture: a Leadership Approach and Job Hazard Analysis: A guide for voluntary compliance and beyond.

January 13, 2009

Hank Roberts

“Everywhere we turn today, we hear encouragement to “develop a positive safety culture.” But I’ve come to the realization that many employers don’t have the slightest clue of what a safety culture is or how to move from where they are to where we are telling them they need to be. So let’s get back to basics. Here’s what we mean by safety culture and how to cultivate one at your organization.”

 

Click on the link below to review both parts of the article

The Safety Culture, Part 1 of 2 | SafetyXChange

The Safety Manager’s Handbook (Safety Management Series (Neenah, Wis.)

Editorial Review from Amazon,

Product Description
Every workplace is filled with potential hazards, and it is the role of every company to assure its employees a safe environment. Now, internationally recognized experts on workplace safety J. J. Keller and Associates have created an information-packed desk reference which gives safety managers must-know information on topics such as: workplace hazards, office safety, contractor safety, facility audits, and much more.

Westville, NJ (CompNewsNetwork) – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Sunoco Inc. for workplace safety and health violations, proposing $305,000 in fines. The Westville oil refinery has 472 employees.

OSHA initiated its investigation as part of its National Emphasis Program focused on petroleum refinery process safety management. As a result of the investigation, the company was issued citations for 25 serious violations, with a penalty of $105,000 and nine repeat violations, with a penalty of $200,000.

"Sunoco Inc.’s failure to correct these hazards leaves its employees at risk of serious injury and possible death," says Gary Roskoski, area director for OSHA’s Marlton Area Office. "The company can ensure future abatement of all serious hazards, as well as compliance with OSHA regulations, by establishing an effective safety and health management system."

WorkersCompensation.com’s CompNewsNetwork – OSHA Cites Sunoco Inc. For Inadequate Safety Management

Day 23 – Reflect – What have I seen and accomplished to date?

Back on Day 12, mission and vision were reviewed.   You’ve had several weeks to continue your assessment and now is a good time to begin developing a more strategic approach to your long term planning.   Whether a military, marketing, charity, political or other campaign, there are fundamental activities that can help keep the process within scope and increase the probability of successful implementation of your efforts.  

If you’re like most of us, you are caught up in activities, the day to day crisis that arise and take our focus off where we need to go or want to go.   This is normal.   Situations will develop that must be attended to without delay and our priorities can be changed by actions of others. But the overall mission must be kept in view!

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Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure – Part 2 of 4

Oct 19th, 2008 by safetyculture

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 themselves as highly proactive. Certainly this might be the case, ask yourself this: what is the level of activity pre-accident vs. post-accident? In addition, how much do you trust your pre-accident or predictive data vs. how much you trust accident data?

I hope you enjoy! If you would like to download this file, all can be found at www.safetycultureexcellence.com Thanks and have a great week! Shawn Galloway ProAct Safety

Safety Culture Excellence » Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure – Part 2 of 4

Getting your message to Stick

One of the issues facing the EHS professional is how to get their message out to the key individuals who can make things happen with budgets, time and authority.  As with advertizing, political slogans, campaigns for charities, etc., why do some messages take on a life of their own while others fall flat and are quickly forgotten.  Those whose “message” is heard and accepted have the advantage over competing messages.

A book I have recently come across, “Made to Stick” by Chip and Dan Health, provides interesting information on what it takes to have your message stick.   Their research and work has been highlighted in a number of publications and offers templates that can be followed in the quest for getting a message to stick. 

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Begin the Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) process

The recent previous JHA blogs by Tommy Bristow puts emphasis on the need for the development of a JHA process.  You can’t sit and remain in the office developing programs.  As part of the process, you must begin to take direct action.   The initial loss data analysis should have identified several types of incidents that might be the critical few – see the Paredo Principle.  Scanning the OSHA 300, discussion of incidents with employees and managers, reviewing accident investigations and looking at insurance loss runs, specific departments and job titles may now stand out.  Based on this history and the risk assessment of severity potential, you should begin to target jobs/tasks and steps that are creating the loss-producing history.

You can now focus in on where losses are developing.  While the strategic plan that covers all aspects of your process must continue on a number of fronts,  the JHA allows you to begin a rifle shot approach to begin the control of specific losses or risk.  You must balance your approach between areas of risk (potential and severity) with existing losses as these two areas may or may not converge.   Some jobs may have no losses but be a high uncontrolled risk.

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Using safety committees may not always be the best approach to reach a decision. But, these group decisions often can establish the best buy-in from employees. The benefits are derived from many viewpoints of varied experiences and can help to produce better decisions through consensus.

Safety committees have been used successfully in allowing employees participate in the safety process. Joint labor-management committees are a popular method of employee participation. At many unionized facilities, employee safety committees (with members selected by the union or elected by the employees) work alone, with little direct management involvement, on various tasks. In other workplaces, employees participate on a central safety committee. Some organization use employees or joint committees for specific purposes, such as conducting workplace surveys, investigating incidents, special projects, and training new employees, etc.

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