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Safety Culture Excellence is a new audio series designed to assist you on your journey, towards either achieving or sustaining Safety Culture Excellence. For more information: www.ProActSafety.com Primary Format : Philosophy Language : English Also Listed as: City : The Woodlands State/Province : TX Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Safety Culture Excellence Podcasts Methings.com listings of Safety Culture Excellence Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

182 – The Contributing Factors of Behavior-Based Safety Failures Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Jacksonville, Florida. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the March 2011 edition of EHS Today Magazine. It was titled “The Contributing Factors of Behavior-Based Safety Failures”. The published article can either be found at www.EHSToday.com or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 181 – I Had Your Attention, Now What? Ensuring Communication Effectiveness Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 180 - For Sustainable Safety Leaders Must Do More Coaching Less Policing Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the February 2011 edition of Drilling Contractor Magazine. It was titled “For Sustainable Safety, Leaders Must Do More Coaching, Less Policing”. The published article can either be found [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 180 - For Sustainable Safety Leaders Must Do More Coaching Less Policing Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the February 2011 edition of Drilling Contractor Magazine. It was titled “For Sustainable Safety, Leaders Must Do More Coaching, Less Policing”. The published article can either be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 179 - Fear And Inspiration: Two Sides Of The Motivational Coin Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Buena Park, CA. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the March 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Fear And Inspiration: Two Sides Of The Motivational Coin”. The published article can either be found at www.BICALLIANCE.com [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 178 - Motivation Through Fear: How To Destroy An Effective Culture Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Dallas, Texas. For the podcast this week, I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the February 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Motivation Through Fear: How To Destroy An Effective Culture”. The published article can either be found at www.BICALLIANCE.com or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 177 - Innovate or Follow: The Argument Against A Best Practice Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Wayne, Michigan. For the topic this week I’d like to share an article “Innovate or Follow: The Argument Against A Best Practice”. The published article can be found at www.Incident-Prevention.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. If you would like to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 176 - A Structured Approach to Coaching - Culture Shock with Shawn Galloway Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I’m sharing a video where I discuss a proven, structured approach to coaching for performance of any kind. Like always, please take these approaches and make them fit your organization. Customization is a critical first step to ensure sustainability.. You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 175 - Why We Fail to See Risk Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in New Iberia, LA. For the topic this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that published in the January 2011 edition of EHS Today. It was titled “Why We Fail to See Risk” The published article can be found at www.EHSToday.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 174 - Preparing Workers for Safety Improvement Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in El Paso, Texas. For the topic this week I’d like to share an article written by ProAct Safety’s Founder and CEO, Terry L. Mathis. It was published in January 2011 by Safety.com. It was titled “Preparing Workers for Safety Improvement” The published article can be found at www.Safety.com [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 173 - Identifying The Right Leaders: Culture Shock With Shawn Galloway Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I’m sharing a video where I discuss a very effective approach to identifying the right leaders either through hiring or promotion. 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.     I hope [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 172 – Ownership In Safety: The Challenge Of Increasing Headcount Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in El Paso, Texas. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in January 2011 by Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine. It was titled “Ownership In Safety: The Challenge Of Increasing Headcount?” The published article can either be found at www.COS-Mag.com or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 171 – Communicating Safety: Can I Get A Receipt? Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Las Vegas, Nevada. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in November 2010 by Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine. It was titled “Communicating Safety: Can I Get A Receipt?” The published article can either be found at www.COS-Mag.com or under [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 170 - Challenging, Changing Five Dangerous Safety Perceptions Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Chicago, IL. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the December 2010/January 2011 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “Challenging, Changing Five Dangerous Safety Perceptions”. The published article can either be found at www.BICALLIANCE.com or under Insights [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 169 - The Five Most Dangerous Safety Perceptions: The Belief Barriers to Excellence Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in San Diego, California. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote that was published in the November 2010 edition of BIC Magazine. It was titled “The Five Most Dangerous Safety Perceptions: The Belief Barriers to Excellence”. The published article can either be found [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 168 – Personal Family Safety Focus: Do You Have One? – Culture Shock With Shawn Galloway Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I’m sharing a video where I discuss developing a Personal Family Safety Focus. Do YOU have one? 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.   [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= BFKa7jiBvO8]   I hope you enjoy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 167 – Asking the Right Questions: A Critical Step to Safety Improvement Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For the podcast this week I’d like to share written by ProAct Safety Founder and CEO, Terry L. Mathis. It was titled “Asking the Right Questions: A Critical Step to Safety Improvement” published in the November 2010 edition of EHS Today. The published article can either [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 166 – 3 Crucial Precautions to Prevent Slips, Trips and Falls Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “3 Crucial Precautions to Prevent Slips, Trips and Falls” published 12 October 2010 by Canadian Occupational Safety. The published article can either be found at http://www.cos-mag.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 165 - Behavior-Based Safety: The Piece Forgotten Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Pineville, Louisiana. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote titled “Behavior-Based Safety: The Piece Forgotten” published October 2010 in BIC Magazine. The article can either be found at www.BICALLIANCE.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I hope you enjoy the podcast this week. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 164 - Black Holes of Safety: Gain Visible Progress Through Identification and Prevention Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Newburg, New York. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Black Holes of Safety: Gain Visible Progress Through Identification and Prevention” published October 2010 in Facility Safety Management Magazine. The published article can either be found at www.fsmmag.com or under Insights [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 163 - Behavior-Based Safety: The Piece Forgotten Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Atlanta, Georgia. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Behavior-Based Safety: The Piece Forgotten” published October 2010 in BIC Magazine. 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 162 - Achieving Fast Safety Performance Impact Culture Shock with Shawn Galloway Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I’m sharing a video in where I discuss how to have a FAST impact on safety performance. 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.     I hope you enjoy and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 161 - Frequently Injured: Fire the Person or Fix the Problem? Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Dublin, Ireland. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Frequently Injured: Fire the Person or Fix the Problem?” that was published September 2010 in EHS Today. The published article can either be found at http://www.EHSToday.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Do You Manage or Influence People? The Result: “Have to” Versus “Want to” Attitudes Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Derry also referred to as Londonderry, Northern Ireland. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Do You Manage or Influence People? The Result: “Have to” Versus “Want to” Attitudes” that was published September 2010 in Industrial Safety and Hygiene News. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 159 - Do You Have Safety Volun-tolds? Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Waukegan, IL. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Do You Have Safety Volun-tolds?”. It was published September 2010 in my column for Canadian Occupational Safety. The published article can either be found at http://www.cos-mag.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 158 - Know Your People: Culture Shock with Shawn Galloway Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I share the 5 different types of people in the organization (as it relates to change) and how to engage them. 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 157 – Leading In The Dark: Safety Without Strategic Direction Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Horseheads, New York. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Leaning In The Dark: Safety Without Strategic Direction” published September 2010 in BIC Magazine. The published article can either be found at www.bicalliance.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I hope you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 156 – Extreme Precautions: What Are Yours? Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Devens, Massachusetts. For the podcast this week, I’d like to share an article I wrote titled “Extreme Precautions: What Are Yours”. It was published August 2010 in my column for Canadian Occupational Safety. The published article can either be found at http://www.cos-mag.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I hope [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 155 - Sustainability: Keeping Safety From Backsliding Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Richmond, VA. This week I’d like to share an article written by ProAct Safety Founder and CEO, Terry Mathis. It was titled, “Sustainability: Keeping Safety From Backsliding”. It was published in the October 2010 edition of EHS Today. The article can either be found at www.EHSToday.com or under Insights [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 154 - 6 Basic Steps For Conducting Safety Perception Surveys: Culture Shock With Shawn Galloway Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I share 6 basic steps for conducting your own safety perception survey.  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.   I hope you enjoy and have a great week!   Shawn [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 153 – Employee Involvement in Safety: Identifying the Participation Barriers Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Canton, OH. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote titled “Employee Involvement in Safety: Identifying the Participation Barriers” published August 2010 in BIC Magazine. The 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 152 - Sustainability Begins With a Transformational Focus Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Washington, DC. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote titled, “Sustainability Begins With a Transformational Focus” published July 2010 in ASSE’s Publication, The Compass. The published article can either be found at www.asse.org or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I hope you enjoy the podcast this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 151 - Safe Florida 2010 –Guess Who Is The Keynote Speaker! Greetings everyone, recording this podcast while working in Keokuk, Iowa. I am honored to be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Safe Florida 2010 Conference and Expo. The Suncoast Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers event will take place on the 29th of October at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Fort Meyers, Florida. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 150 – Prepare Now for the Next Recession: The Role of Safety Culture Greetings, this podcast recorded while working in Omaha, Nebraska. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Prepare Now for the Next Recession: The Role of Safety Culture” that was published in the 19 July 2010 by IndustryWeek. The published article can either be found at www.IndustryWeek.com or under [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 149 - Effective Communication: Culture Shock With Shawn Galloway Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I share insights into how to communicate your messages effectively.  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.   [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= SuZ3MvCuHMc]   I hope you enjoy and have a great week!   Shawn M. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 148 – Webinars, National Safety Council and Lean Behavior-Based Safety Certification Workshop Greetings! Recording this podcast while working in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Recently one of the subscribers to this podcast, Peter Hinton, emailed me to discuss the podcast and offered the following suggestion: “…as I listen to your podcasts I chuckle at the statement “ …Recorded while on the road…” I envision you driving and trying / recording [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 147 - Old Dogs and New Tricks: Keep BBS from Rolling Over and Playing Dead Greetings, this podcast recorded while in Decatur, Alabama. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article Terry Mathis and I wrote called “Old Dogs and New Tricks: Keep BBS From Rolling Over and Playing Dead” that was published in the June 2010 edition of EHS Today. The published article can either be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 146 – AIHA Interviews Terry Mathis About Behavior-Based Safety ProAct Safety Founder and CEO, Terry L. Mathis was recently interviewed by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA). They have a podcast called Safe & Sound, hosted by Melissa Hurley and Craig Sorrell. They were kind enough to allow us to repost the interview in its entirety for the subscribers of Safety Culture Excellence. To visit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 145 - Managing Performance: Culture Shock With Shawn Galloway Greetings all! For the video podcast this month, I share a four-part model for managing safety performance. I hope you will see how this model can be applied to any area of human performance.   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/component/option,com_seyret/Itemid,100092/id,112/task,videodirectlink/ or you can watch [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 144 - Using Podcasts to Improve Safety: A Versatile New Communication Media - Whitepaper Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Galveston, Texas. For the podcast this week I’d like to share a White Paper Terry Mathis and I wrote titled “Using Podcasts to Improve Safety: A Versatile New Communication Media” that was published as a conference paper for American Society of Safety Engineers Safety 2010. The published [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 143 - Dangers of Distracted Drivers: The Science Explained Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in San Jose, California. This week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Dangers of Distracted Drivers: The Science Explained” that was published 20 July 2010 in my column for Canadian Occupational Safety. The published article can either be found at http://www.cos-mag.com or under Insights [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 142 - Multitasking Myths and Misconceptions Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Manchester, England. For this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “Multitasking Myths and Misconceptions” that was published 04 June 2010 in my column for Canadian Occupational Safety. The published article can either be found at http://www.cos-mag.com or under Insights at www.ProActSafety.com.   I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 141 – The Folly of Safety Training Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Irvine, Scotland. For the podcast this week I’d like to share an article I wrote called “The Folly of Safety Training” that was published the June 2010 edition of Occupational Health and Safety. The published article can either be found at http://ohsonline.com/articles/2010/06/01/the-folly-of-safety-training.aspx?sc_lang=en or under Insights at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 140 - Coaching For Safety: Culture Shock With Shawn Galloway Greetings in this short video I share a very effective model for coaching for performance. In this video I focus on safety coaching. I hope you will see how it can be applied to any form of human performance.   You can either watch the video here at www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com, at www.ProActSafety.com/Insights, or directly on the magazine’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 139 - 3 Strategies for Supervisor Safety Coaching Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Cumbernauld, Scotland. A few months back I was speaking at Partners in Prevention 2010 in Toronto, Canada. After my talk on Teaching Supervisors to be Safety Coaches, the editor of Accident Prevention e-News asked if I would write an article on the subject. A few weeks [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 138 - An Unlikely Tool To Improve Safety Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Sheffield, England. For this 138th podcast, I’d like to share an article I wrote called, “An Unlikely Tool to Improve Safety”. It was published 10 May 2010 in my monthly column for Canadian Occupational Safety. The article can either be found at http://www.cos-mag.com or under Insights at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 137 – Using Podcasts to Improve Safety Article Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in Baltimore, Maryland. This is now our 137th podcast and Safety Culture Excellence is now over 2 ½ years old! Thank you to all of our subscribers. Terry Mathis and I have been overwhelmed by the amount of appreciation we receive via email and calls from people who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 136 - Culture Shock with Shawn M. Galloway Episode 1 Greetings all! As you may already know, a few months ago I became a columnist for COS Magazine. Aside from contributing articles monthly, I’ll be contributing videos as well. When up in Toronto recently; I recorded several videos in their studio. The video column is titled Culture Shock. In the first video I talk about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 135 – Heard It Through The Grapevine Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in Bethesda, Maryland. For this week’s podcast I’d like to share an article that was fun to write and is to me a fun topic, visible support for safety, but maybe that’s just me because I’m so passionate about it myself. The article was titled, “Heard It Through [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 134 – Establishing A Culture Of Safety Excellence: Strategies Worth Repeating Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in Denver Colorado. In the podcast last week I provided an audio recording of an article of mine that was published in the April Edition of EHS Today. It was titled “Assessing Your Safety Culture in Seven Simple Steps”.    For the podcast this week I would like to provide the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 133 - Assessing Your Safety Culture in Seven Simple Steps Greetings, this podcast recorded while on the road in Toronto, Ontario. After seventeen years of working on and developing safety cultures, we receive comments and questions on a weekly basis on how to assess a safety culture. A lot of people believe it can be performed solely by completing a safety perception survey. Remember perception surveys [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 132 - Never Let Your Kids Drive While Distracted: The Science Explained Greetings everyone for the podcast this week, I’d like to share a short video I recorded on the scientific model that addresses the importance of never driving and talking on the phone, often called, Distracted Driving. I also hope from this short video you will understand why it is such a bad idea to ever [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 131 – Prevention Trumps Reaction Greetings everyone I recorded this podcast in San Jose California. Recently I was asked to become a frequent contributor to Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine. I was honored when they stated the following on their website, “Editor’s note: Beginning this month, Canadian Occupational Safety is adding another talent to its roster of columnists. Shawn Galloway, international [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 130 – An Expert Commentary on Advanced Safety Theory Greetings, recorded this podcast while on the road in San Jose, California. Safety has evolved at an impressive rate. I would argue, increasingly so over the past decade. As we improve our ability to prevent risk exposures and injuries we must ensure we do not fall into what Dean Spitzer in his book SuperMotivation calls, “Theoretical Chauvinism [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 129 – The Key to Safety Measurement: Understanding and Measuring What You Want Greetings, recorded this podcast from the road in Omaha, Nebraska. Businesses continue to struggle trying to identify different or better ways to measure safety. Terry and I discuss the evolution of safety measurement and where the future will take us. We refer this as Safety Measurement 3.0. I hope you enjoy!   Have a great week,   Shawn M. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 128 - Hiring for Safety — Risk-Takers Need Not Apply Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in Canton, Ohio. This week I would like to share an article I wrote (Hiring for Safety — Risk-Takers Need Not Apply), that was published by Industry Week on the 5th of April 2010. If you would like to see the actual article it can be found at: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 127 - Making Safety A Habit: But Which One Greetings everyone for the podcast this week, I’d like to share a short video I recorded on the importance of safety habits. The title is Making Safety a Habit: But Which One. My apologies in advance for the poor lighting in the video, ironically I recorded this in a hotel called The Nordic Light in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 126 - Motivational Punishment: Beaten by Carrots and Sticks Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This week I would like to share with you an article written by Terry Mathis. This article, Motivational Punishment: Beaten By Carrots and Sticks was published by EHS Today in March 2010. If you would like to see the actual article it can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 125 – The Use of Motivation Within Safety Greetings, recorded this podcast from the road in Naperville, Illinois. Recently we held our 9th Annual Behavior-Based Safety (AKA: Behaviour-Based Safety) Conference. Upon completion we asked the audience to share what they would like more information on. We then promised that we would focus our next Terry-Shawn conversational podcast on it. The conclusion: More Thoughts on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 124 - Safety Culture Goes Far Beyond Work Greetings, this podcast recorded on the road in St. Louis Missouri. This week I would like to share a fun article I wrote, that was published by Canadian Occupational Safety on the 23rd of February 2010. If you would like to see the actual article it can be found at: http://www.cos-mag.com/201002231817/safety/safety-stories/safety-culture-goes-beyond-work.html. You can also find [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 123 - Leadership Communication: Sticky ROA Greetings everyone for the podcast this week, I’d like to share a short video I recorded on the importance of sticky communication and return on attention. The title is Leadership Communication: Sticky ROA. To be a great leader, your communication needs to be effective, thus ensuring knowledge transfer. You can either download this short clip [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 122 - Three-Step Model to Safety Coaching Greetings, recorded this on the road in Ottawa, Illinois. The topic this week is about an upcoming webinar scheduled for 07 May 2010 titled, Three-Step Model to Safety Coaching.    http://www.proactsafety.com/webseminars    “When the leaders don’t lead, the followers don’t follow.” This is especially true in safety. Managers and supervisors play a critical role in the safety efforts of most [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 121 - Understanding Influences on Risks: A Four-Part Model Greetings everyone, recorded this podcast on the road in Syracuse, New York.  For the topic this week I’d like to share with you an article (Understanding Influences on Risks: A Four-Part Model) that Terry Mathis and I wrote, and had published, in the February 2010 edition of EHS Today Magazine. The article can either be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 120 - Customizing Your Own Safety Perception Survey Greetings, recorded this on the road in Santa Fe Springs, California. The topic this week is about an upcoming webinar scheduled for 02 April 2010 titled, Customizing Your Own Safety Perception Survey.   http://www.proactsafety.com/webseminars   A safety culture is made up of common practices, attitudes, and perceptions of risks that influence behavioral choices both at work and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 119 - Standing Side by Side: A Tale of Effective Leadership Greetings everyone! For the podcast this week I’d like to share some thoughts on a simple element that makes a leader effective. This brief video is titled: Standing Side By Side - A Tale of an Effective Leader. You can either download this short clip here from this site (www.SafetyCultureExcellence.com or watch it below at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 118 - Assessing Your Behavioral Safety Process: Finding New Results Greetings, recorded this on the road in Louisville, Kentucky. The topic this week is about an upcoming webinar scheduled for this Friday, 05 March 2010 titled, Assessing Your Behavioral Safety Process: Finding New Results. - http://www.proactsafety.com/webseminars  Many traditional Behavior-Based Safety process results plateau after the first two to three years of operation. At this point, the process can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 117 - The FILM for a Cultural Snapshot Greetings, I recorded this podcast on the road in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Terry Mathis and I co-authored an article that was published in the January 2010 edition of EHS Today. I would like to share this fun article with you. If you would like to see the article it can either be found at http://www.proactsafety.com/articlesbyproactsafetystaff or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 116 – Behavior-Based Safety Software: To Purchase or Create? Greetings, recording on the road this week in Cheswick, Pennsylvania. We receive a lot of calls from organizations looking to purchase software for their behavioral safety processes. So for the podcast this week, I would like to provide some thoughts on this. There really are several software options available to an organization looking to implement [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 115 - What Defines An Accident or Incident? Greetings everyone! This is the first Sunday of the month (February 2010) and as promised we are publishing a video podcast today. This podcast is titled: What Defines an Accident or Incident? Terry Mathis, the Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety shares his thoughts on this topic. You can either download this short clip here [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 114 – The Five Major Observation Strategies for Behavior-Based Safety Bonjour! Recording on the road this week in Paris, France. We have recorded many topics on Behavior-Based Safety and specifically the observation portion of the initiative, as it is after the engine of the average process. However consider conducting observations is not the only source of energy and there is not one type of observation [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 113 – What Triggers An Observation In Behavior-Based Safety? Guten Tag! Recording on the road this week in Basel, Switzerland. As a firm, we have assessed and are familiar with all methodologies of Behavior-Based Safety. Regardless of the effectiveness of the methodology, it is easy for processes to lose the drive for results, and fall into the process orientation. What I’m referring to is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 112 – Can You Name Your Last Three Safety Committee Successes? Bonjour! Recording on the road this week in Colmar, France.  The topic this week, “Can You Name Your Last Three Safety Committee Successes?” says a lot about team effectiveness and communication. This is a question we always ask when assessing volunteerism or some employees call it voluntold. Either way when we are looking at improving [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 111 – Overreacting to Accidents – Rules, Rules and More Rules Buongiorno! Recording on the road this week in Milan, Italy. It is easy for an organization to fall into the trap of overreacting to an accident. The way we respond to the accident most definitely impacts both the culture and the future reporting of accidents, yet not enough attention is placed on this topic. Terry [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 110 – 2010 Personal Safety Focus: Do You Have One?   Greetings everyone from my home in The Woodlands, Texas. This year I begin to not only promise to provide weekly audio files to help you improve safety; I will be publishing monthly videos as well. We will keep these videos under 10 minutes in length so they can be used in quick meetings. This month [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 109 – Responding to an Accident after Implementing Behavior-Based Safety Greetings from the road this week in Barnsley, England. Before we get started with the topic for this week, I wanted to let you know that we have identified the dates for ProAct Safety’s Annual Conference. If you would like to mark it on your calendar, it will be the 6th – 8th of April 2010. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 108 - Live At NSC And A Three-Step Coaching Model Greetings! Recording this podcast live in Orlando Florida. Recently we were at NSC’s (National Safety Council) 2009 Congress and Expo. We both spoke on some important topics during the conference, and we thought it would be fun to record a live podcast on the show floor; to celebrate 100 podcasts! While this was, we realize it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 107 – Unions and Behavior-Based Safety: The Seven Deadly Sins Greetings recording this week in Peoria, Illinois! We have received some amazingly positive responses from a recent article of ours (Unions and Behavior-Based Safety: The Seven Deadly Sins) that was published in EHS Today in the October 2009 edition. If you would like to view a hard copy and print out the article, please either [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 106 - Safety Culture Excellence Host Shawn M. Galloway Greetings everyone, my name is Shawn Galloway, I’m the President of ProAct Safety and the Host of Safety Culture Excellence. As you are aware since January 2008 we have provided free weekly audio podcasts to help you achieve and sustain excellence in safety. Starting in 2010 we will add monthly videos that you can use [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 105 - 5 New Metrics to Transform Safety Greetings recording this podcast on the road in ST. Agatha, Maine. This week I would like to share with you an article recently written by Terry and published on the 22nd of September 2009 in Workplace HR and Safety’s Safety Email Report. If you would like to see a hard copy of this article please visit [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 104 – Lean Behavior-Based Safety Certification – A Three-Day Workshop Greetings recording on the road in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This week I’d like to share with you the details of a highly requested workshop. We have been delivering this workshop privately for companies since January 2002. This approach to Behavior-Based Safety has proven to be the most successful in the industry at both short and long-term [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 104 – Lean Behavior-Based Safety Certification – A Three-Day Workshop Greetings recording on the road in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This week I’d like to share with you the details of a highly requested workshop. We have been delivering this workshop privately for companies since January 2002. This approach to Behavior-Based Safety has proven to be the most successful in the industry at both short and long-term [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 103 - Some Thoughts on Leadership Greetings recording on the road this week in Cleveland, Ohio where Terry and I are leading some advanced safety public workshops. Last week while working in Omaha Nebraska I was interviewed by the host of Leadership-Action.com, Greg Krieser.  Greg states on the site that “Leadership-Action came about through the study and application of various leadership [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 103 - Some Thoughts on Leadership Greetings recording this week in Cleveland, Ohio where Terry and I are leading some advanced safety public workshops. Last week while working in Omaha Nebraska I was interviewed by the host of Leadership-Action.com, Greg Krieser.  Greg states on the site that “Leadership-Action came about through the study and application of various leadership principles.” He interviews [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100 - Our 100th Episode and a Live Recording Greetings! Recording this podcast in Denver, Colorado. Welcome to episode 100! In this special edition we would like to share with you some opportunities to participate with us in a live recording of a Safety Culture Excellence Podcast, and sit in on some of our talks this week at National Safety Council 2009 Congress and Expo.   Terry and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 100 - Our 100th Episode and a Live Recording Greetings! Recording this podcast in Denver, Colorado. Welcome to episode 100! In this special edition we would like to share with you some opportunities to participate with us in a live recording of a Safety Culture Excellence Podcast, and sit in on some of our talks this week at National Safety Council 2009 Congress and Expo.   Terry and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 99 – The Four Primary Factors That Influence Risk Taking Greetings, this podcast recorded in East Brunswick, New Jersey. Last week Terry and I talked about the four (4) part model, FILM – Focus, Influence, Listen and Measure. If you haven’t listened to last week’s podcast I highly encourage you to go back and do so first, prior to continuing with this topic as this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 99 – The Four Primary Factors That Influence Risk Taking Greetings, this podcast recorded in East Brunswick, New Jersey. Last week Terry and I talked about the four (4) part model, FILM – Focus, Influence, Listen and Measure. If you haven’t listened to last week’s podcast I highly encourage you to go back and do so first, prior to continuing with this topic as this [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 98 – The F.I.L.M. for Your Safety Snapshot – A Model to Understand Common Practice Greetings, this podcast recorded in Canton, Ohio. This week Terry and I would like to share with you an advanced model for improving safety. This is a model that has helped hundreds of international organizations advance beyond traditional safety, to reach and sustain a level of excellence in safety. First, I would like to challenge [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 98 – The F.I.L.M. for Your Safety Snapshot – A Model to Understand Common Practice Greetings, this podcast recorded in Canton, Ohio. This week Terry and I would like to share with you an advanced model for improving safety. This is a model that has helped hundreds of international organizations advance beyond traditional safety, to reach and sustain a level of excellence in safety. First, I would like to challenge [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 95 - Applying the Seven Principles of Adult Learning Greetings, this podcast recorded in Indianapolis, Indiana. For this week, Terry and I would like to share with you seven principles to consider, when providing training to adults. We will discuss some of the theories and some of the myths, what to ensure and what to avoid. If you would like a copy of a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 93 - Managing Perceptions to Create FOCUS Greetings, recording this week in Marysville, Kansas. Just a quick note about some upcoming public events: On the 15th and 16th of September Terry Mathis will be in Seattle, Washington leading two one-day public sessions that are part of the Safety Culture Excellence Series. On the 15th he will be leading a seminar titled Advanced [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 93 - Managing Perceptions to Create FOCUS Greetings, recording this week in Marysville, Kansas. Just a quick note about some upcoming public events: On the 15th and 16th of September Terry Mathis will be in Seattle, Washington leading two one-day public sessions that are part of the Safety Culture Excellence Series. On the 15th he will be leading a seminar titled Advanced [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 92 - Measuring Safety Culture at Georgia-Pacific: Methods, Findings and Results Welcome everyone recording in The Woodlands, Texas. For this week’s topic I wanted to share with you a recently recorded interview with the two presenters of an upcoming talk at National Safety Council’s 2009 Conference in Orlando Florida. Terry Mathis of our firm ProAct Safety and Rudy Hagen of Georgia-Pacific, LLC will be co presenting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 92 - Measuring Safety Culture at Georgia-Pacific: Methods, Findings and Results Welcome everyone recording in The Woodlands, Texas. For this week’s topic I wanted to share with you a recently recorded interview with the two presenters of an upcoming talk at National Safety Council’s 2009 Conference in Orlando Florida. Terry Mathis of our firm ProAct Safety and Rudy Hagen of Georgia-Pacific, LLC will be co presenting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 91 – Trends or Moving Targets –Responding to Behavior Based Safety Observation Data Greetings, recording this week in Saratoga, New York. For the podcast this week, Terry and I answer the following client’s question: “We had a Steering Team meeting last week and a concern about data analysis was raised and I have an action item to contact you for your thoughts. During our previous data analysis the least percent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 90 - Intro to The 7 Deadly Sins of Behavior Based Safety - How to Guarantee Union Resistance Greetings, recording this week from East Brunswick, New Jersey. This week I’d like to provide an overview of an upcoming free webinar scheduled for the 24th of September 2009. The webinar will be hosted by EHS Today. You can find a link to enroll at either www.ProActSafety.com or www.EHSToday.com if you are reading this after the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 89 - Hard Measurements for Soft Science: Behavior-Based Safety Has Evolved Greetings recording this week in Omaha, NE.  “In the early 1980s many safety professionals were excited about the possibilities of using new advances in the behavioral sciences to improve organizational safety. Among the technologies being investigated was the idea of behavioral observation. Behavior is by definition “an observable act” and therefore measurable by workplace observation. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 86 – In Search of Excellence: The Limitations of Traditional Safety Greetings from: Toronto, Ontario. When we talk about safety excellence we are often talking about doing something fundamentally different than what we have already done before. Consider that most advanced approaches to excellence will not work, either initially or sustain if you do not have a good management foundation already in place. Similarly in safety, if you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 85 – Measuring Safety Culture: Why Perception Surveys are Not Enough Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. This week I would like to share a recording of another article by Terry Mathis, recently published in EHS Today in their April 2009 issue. The article can either be found on the EHS Today website – www.ehstoday.com or on the ProAct Safety website – www.ProActSafety.com    Have a great week!   Shawn Galloway ProAct [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 84 – Do Your People Have A Personal Safety Focus? Greetings from Toronto, Canada and show number 84! This week I’d like to talk about what we call a Personal Safety Focus. The idea is: Do you have things that go beyond rules, policies and procedures that you can focus your people on that minimizes or prevents their exposure to risk? Now obviously if you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 82 – Addressing Observation Challenges in Behavior-Based Safety Greetings from Dublin, Ireland and podcast number 82! This week will be focusing on answering a subscriber’s question about observations in a Behavior-Based Safety process. We received the following email: “An issue we are having at our plant is our behavioral observation program is turning in results of 99% safe from month to month now but the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 81 – The Five Objectives for Teaching Leaders How To Be Safety Coaches Greetings from Antwerp, Belgium and podcast number 81! Monthly we are asked to customize and lead workshops to teach supervisors how to be Safety Coaches, in countries throughout the world. For the podcast this week we would like to share and discuss in detail what we feel are the five main objectives for this important [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 80 - The Rationale For Helping Supervisors Become Better Safety Leaders Greetings from Cuijk, Netherlands. This week we will answer another subscriber’s question: “If you have mastered basic safety, where is the next opportunity and where do you start on the road to safety culture excellence? If you think about it there are three common cultural starting points, leadership, supervisors (middle management) and the employee population. This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 79 - How To Transition From Safety Incentive Programs To Safety Reward Programs Greetings from New Orleans, Louisiana. I received a great question via email that we would like to address this week. The email said this: “I was listening to the various podcasts on safety incentive and reward programs and I have a question. We are currently attempting a safety incentive program but it’s not the most [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 78 – Advanced Tactics For Behavior-Based Safety: Lean Principles And Results Orientation This intensive one-day session will enable participants to create a customized plan, using the latest Lean Behavior-Based Safety (Lean BBS®) Technologies for spearheading process improvement. Lean Behavior-Based Safety is based on the philosophy of achieving faster accident reductions with the minimum internal resources and external cost requirements, ultimately achieving a more sustainable internalized continuous improvement [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 77 – When Management Is Not Consistent With Their Commitment to Safety Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. During a recent webinar we received a lot of great questions. By the way the previous webinars we have held can currently be viewed on demand at no cost. They can either be found on the Safety Culture Excellence website or at www.proactsafety.com. We followed up with the individual questions [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 76 – Leadership Safety Coaching: Teaching Supervisors To Be Safety Coaches Do your supervisors police or coach safety? Both can have their place, yet what is the predominant style most often used? This seminar will give managers and supervisors the background and tools to become effective safety coaches.  They will learn how to focus workers on the most effective accident-prevention strategies, discover and manage influences on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 70 - Incentivizing and Rewarding Leading or Lagging Indicators for Safety? Greetings from the Dumfries and Galloway Region of Scotland. Do you incentivize and reward the things that improve safety or only the lowering of accident rates and costs? Understanding the impact of incentives and rewards on leading and lagging indicators, often provides insight on whether you are driving proactive or reactive approaches to safety? Sometimes [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 69 – Rewarding Teams or Individuals for Safety? Greetings from Danville, Pennsylvania and show number 69! Two weeks ago we started a discussion about Incentives and Rewards for Safety. We began with our philosophical view of these approaches to safety and last week shared our thoughts, on what incentive and reward programs are, and their differences. For the podcast this week you will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 68 – What is the Difference in Incentive and Reward Programs for Safety? Greetings from Corvallis, Oregon and SCE show number 68! Last week we talked about incentive programs and our philosophical view of them. This week we would like to share our thoughts on what incentive and reward programs are, and their differences. Just a reminder, we recently released the date for our “Advanced Lean Behavior-Based Safety [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 67 – Are Safety Incentive Programs Effective? Greetings from East Brunswick, New Jersey. The use of incentives for safety is nothing new. A quick search yielded over 27,000 results. This week Terry and I will initiate this topic that I’m sure will be continued over many, many podcasts. To begin, this week you will hear Terry talk about how safety incentive programs can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 67 – Are Safety Incentive Programs Effective? Greetings from East Brunswick, New Jersey. The use of incentives for safety is nothing new. A quick search yielded over 27,000 results. This week Terry and I will initiate this topic that I’m sure will be continued over many, many podcasts. To begin, this week you will hear Terry talk about how safety incentive programs can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 66 – Understanding a Zero Tolerance for Accidents Greetings from Saint Simons Island, GA. Often we hear of leaders who have stated that there will be a “zero tolerance for accidents”. Sometimes the positive intention of that phrase is well understood and thus no problem. Many times regardless of best intentions, a perception gets created about the meaning and potential negative outcome of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Advanced Lean Behavior-Based Safety Facilitator Seminar – 30 April 2009 Hello everyone! It is with great pleasure that I announce that we will be hosting a one day event titled “Advanced Lean Behavior-Based Safety Facilitator Seminar”.   Based on several conversations with our clients and previous conference attendees, we have modified our typical annual conference.  Therefore, instead of our usual large gathering, we will hold several small, yet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 65 - Investigating Near-Misses and Establishing Reporting Targets Greetings from Barnsley, England located in South Yorkshire. Last week I received a comment and two thought provoking questions from a subscriber. They were as follows:   “What are your thoughts on fixing targets on near miss reporting / investigation, as a part of measuring safety performance? Other question, How deep should the near miss incident investigation [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 64 – The Dangers of Using Injured Employees for Safety Tasks Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. We have had several requests asking us to provide our thoughts on this week’s topic. It is sometimes difficult to provide a blanket answer to questions such as this. I have seen in practice this strategy work very well and conversely I have seen it very quickly destroy a culture and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 64 – The Dangers of Using Injured Employees for Safety Tasks Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. We have had several requests asking us to provide our thoughts on this week’s topic. It is sometimes difficult to provide a blanket answer to questions such as this. I have seen in practice this strategy work very well and conversely I have seen it very quickly destroy a culture and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 63 - When The Goal in Safety is Something Other Than Zero Greetings from London, England. This week we will discuss the difference between a vision and a goal of zero in safety and the impact they both have on the organizational culture. Have you ever thought about how the culture may react when you set a target, or a reduction goal, or vision for the year [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 62 – What Are The Best Types of Data to Improve Safety? Greetings from Helsinki, Finland. As we all try to improve the safety of our people and work sites, we are always looking for better data, systems and ways to measure and improve safety performance. Thankfully many sites have passed the point of placing blame and using fault finding data (which is an easy trap to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 61 – Common Practice and the Magic of Asking Why Greetings from Tampere, Finland. Whether you are gathering data from Behavior-Based Safety (Behaviour-Based Safety, BBS) observations, work place audits, safety blitzes, Kaizens, whatever you want to call it; many companies struggle with creating action plans that truly have an impact on operational risk.   We see a lot of organizations that are putting a tremendous amount of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 60 – The Hidden Dangers of Safety Perception Surveys Greetings from Portland, Oregon. Over the years millions have participated in safety perception surveys. Some have tried a customized safety perception survey, some have bought the packaged products and others are only able to get a few safety statements squeezed into an annual HR (Human Resource) Perception Survey. There is nothing wrong with perception surveys, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 59 - The Five Types of People in Organizational Change Greetings from Corvallis, Oregon. It is often said that the only thing constant is change. How you carry out the change will largely determine the success of the initiative. Many people call change successful when the project has ended and the change agent goes away or on to other things. Our belief is that you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 59 - The Five Types of People in Organizational Change Greetings from Corvallis, Oregon. It is often said that the only thing constant is change. How you carry out the change will largely determine the success of the initiative. Many people call change successful when the project has ended and the change agent goes away or on to other things. Our belief is that you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 58 - How to Help Site Managers be Proactive vs. Reactive Greetings from Atlanta, Georgia. As children we experience things through trial and error and we react to the stimuli in the world around us. This makes the challenge of moving effort in safety away from being mostly reactive, towards being more proactive, a difficult one. There is even a management philosophy called managing by exception. This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 58 - How to Help Site Managers be Proactive vs. Reactive Greetings from Atlanta, Georgia. As children we experience things through trial and error and we react to the stimuli in the world around us. This makes the challenge of moving effort in safety away from being mostly reactive, towards being more proactive, a difficult one. There is even a management philosophy called managing by exception. This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 57 - Audio from Intro to Lean Behavior-Based Safety Video Happy Holidays! For the podcast this week, I would like to provide the audio only portion from the recent video, “Intro to Lean BBS (Behavior-Based Safety)”. If you would like to view the full video, please visit www.safetycultureexcellence.com and click on the videos category. Remember to visit the site often as we post new ideas [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Intro to Lean Behavior-Based Safety Video by ProAct Safety Intro to Lean Behavior-Based Safety Length: 60 Minutes Host:           Shawn Galloway, President & COO - ProAct Safety Presenter:     Terry Mathis, Founder & CEO - ProAct Safety   What You Will Learn: What is Lean BBS®? - Lean is not just less Why this approach has become the most successful in the industry What options are available for Behavior-Based Safety [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 55 - Second Lean Behavior-Based Safety Video by ProAct Safety Happy Holidays from all of us at ProAct Safety. This week we are releasing a fun video we put together about Lean Behavior-Based Safety (Lean BBS). You can also view the video on-demand at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE-ypMnxXGU   Happy Holidays Everyone!   Shawn Galloway ProAct Safety Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Involve Employees in Organizational Change Greetings from The Woodlands, Texas. As we travel throughout the world, we see many companies that are changing their organizational strategies and structures, which of course has an impact on the organization culture and safety culture. At many companies, the base of the culture (the largest part if you will) is the employees. Too often [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1 - Lean Behavior-Based Safety Marketing Video by ProAct Safety 1 - First Lean Behavior-Based Safety Video Either Download the Video, or stream it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez4WoLJdPXY Shawn M. Galloway ProAct Safety Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does Safety Success Look Like? Greetings from Indianapolis, Indiana. “Because of the reactive approach to measuring and managing safety prevalent in the world today, the true definition of safety success has been obscured. The surface definition of safety success on most safety professionals’ minds is simply a reduction in the failure rate. We have been so busy avoiding failure that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Does Safety Success Look Like? Greetings from Indianapolis, Indiana. �Because of the reactive approach to measuring and managing safety prevalent in the world today, the true definition of safety success has been obscured. The surface definition of safety success on most safety professionals� minds is simply a reduction in the failure rate. We have been so busy avoiding failure that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Utopia of Organizational Change Greetings, recording this week from Paris, France. Recently, we had a client call us who has previously hired us at several other organizations, throughout their very successful career. Well now he’s unfortunately facing the challenge of being the “new kid on the block”. He is at a new company and is having difficulty bringing new ideas [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Difference Between Theory and Practice? Greetings, I am recording from the Normandy Region of France. We had a recent request to expand on our thoughts about Yogi Berra’s quote that was referenced recently, “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.” So Terry and I sat down and recorded our thoughts on how that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Upcoming Webinar – Intro to Lean Behavior-Based Safety Hello everyone this is Shawn Galloway the host of Safety Culture Excellence. As you listen, you can tell this is not one of our normal podcasts, this is a special one to inform you of an upcoming webinar. On the 04th of December 2008 we will be hosting a free one hour webinar titled, “Intro to Lean [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assessing the Safety Culture – Interview by EHS Today Greetings from Gien, France. For the podcast this week, I’m privileged to share with you an interview between EHS Today’s Associate editor Laura Walter and Terry Mathis (the Founder and CEO of ProAct Safety).       The title was “Assessing the Safety Culture.” In the interview, Terry shares his 25 years experience working with safety cultures, including how it can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why the Interest in Safety Cultures? Greetings from Zurich, Switzerland. This week Terry Mathis and I discuss a recent question presented to us, “Why do you think companies are so interested in culture?” Terry and I sat down and recorded our thoughts. If you think about it, over the past 50 years we have developed any number of things that can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure? - Part 4 of 4 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 methodology or single science. He will also [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure? - Part 4 of 4 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 methodology or single science. He will also [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure? - Part 3 of 4 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 listen in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure? - Part 3 of 4 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 listen in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure - Part 2 of 4 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Safety About Achieving Success or Avoiding Failure - Part 1 of 4 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  Since then, we have had such an overwhelming response from the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Map of Subscribers - Many Thanks Hello everyone! The picture highlights where everyone is listening from.�I thank you for the time you spend with us each week! If you have any suggestions on how we can make these podcasts more valuable to you,�please let us know! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Performance Management - A Simple Model to Remember 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 industries. Because each engagement is unique the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Anatomy of Change 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 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Safety Management vs. Safety Leadership 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 one might take precedence over the other, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Accident or Incident What is the Difference? 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 debate to include preferences of near misses, close [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Articulating the Business Case for Safety Excellence 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 be helpful to respond to this question through [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2008 NSC Expo - Special Podcast 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 and I [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Balanced Indicators for Safety – BBS KPIs Part 3 of 3 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Common Process Metrics – BBS KPIs Part 2 of 3 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 podcast series, I encourage you [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Global Implementation Metrics – BBS KPIs Part 1 of 3 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 the major approaches around Behavior [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Successful Communication is Sticky � Safety Process Communication Loop Series 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 about in a great book: Made [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Workflow Your Safety Communication� Safety Process Communication Loop Series 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.� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Important KPIs and Real Communication � Safety Process Communication Loop Series 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 monologue…� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Staying on Message and Forgotten Communication � Safety Process Communication Loop What are the most important things to communicate and how do we ensure that communication has actually happened? Too often we forget we have people acting as our front line defense in safety and we forget to communicate back with them on how they have helped or the opportunities to further improve.�It is easy to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Knowledge of Precautions & Successes � Safety Process Communication Loop Series Communication is by far, one of the most important elements in creating an excellent safety culture. It must be timely, on target and clear, otherwise, communication doesn�t happen. In this session we will discuss effective channels of communication and how to ensure that people are hearing the message that you mean to send. This begins [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pt 1 of 3 Increasing Self Awareness Through Focused Self Observations Creating self awareness for safety is important, especially when you are working in environments where it is common to work without other co-workers present. In this three (3) part session, we will discuss one tested, successful approach to increase personal safety awareness and how this can be applied and used within a safety observation process.� Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Legacy We Leave Behind We often joke that when it comes to safety, there are two kinds of people, those who care and those who don�t. Those who don�t care about safety don�t get involved.�Those who do, well they�re like you, they do get involved. I believe I am speaking with people who do care about the safety of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pt 2 of 2 - Using a Behavioral Approach to Focus on Hand Injury Prevention This week�s podcast is part two (2)�of this talk. If you have ideas that you would like to share specific to this topic, please email us and we�ll share your thoughts with others in a future cast. The email address is provided at the end of the recording.� Thanks! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pt 1 of 2 - Using a Behavioral Approach to Focus on Hand Injury Prevention According to numerous studies, one of the leading injuries in the workplace is hand related injury. �Increasing awareness and applying behavioral coaching has helped many organizations reduce the number of hand injuries within their facilities. In this two part session, I�ll discuss different applications for behaviorally focused approaches, that can significantly impact your hand-injury trends. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website �The Cliff Analogy� While attending the Ohio Safety Congress & Expo�last week,�I had the pleasure�to meet a� group of people�who were�subscribers of this podcast. They had heard us present a popular analogy of ours called �The Cliff Analogy�, a couple of years ago at another safety conference. They asked that I record it so they could use it [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Training�s Golden Opportunity: Using Compliance Classes to Reach Strategic Safety Goals I hope that you would agree with my belief that training is only as effect as the reinforcement system that follows. �Lurking inside that required annual safety training is a golden opportunity. World-class safety organizations are increasingly utilizing safety training to build mindsets and skills that are aligned with corporate goals and values. Far from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Applying Lean & Six Sigma Principles to Behavior Based Safety (Part 1 of 3) It is hard to argue with the fact that in business, the only thing constant is change. In addition, as we all know, we had a few more resources available to us in the past, than in today�s lean environment. Aside from a few new names and some successful re-branding campaigns, Behavior Based Safety has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If You Don�t Understand What You Are Measuring, You Still Can�t Improve Whether you are looking for compliance tracking and reporting software, or applications to manage proactive types of efforts like observations or risk audits; there are certainly many for safety professionals to choose from. Some quite good and others, well still need some improving. We have had the fortune to have worked with some fantastic organizations [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Street-Smart Behavior-Based Safety It�s Time for the Theory to Get Real! “It is time to take BBS to the next level. This next level is not an academic level to be attained through research or review of the literature. It is a level discovered on the shop floor, down the production lines and in the warehouse. BBS must become an applied science, integrated into the workplace, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fallacies in the Safety Fable “Although fiction, fables have enough truth to attract us and enough fallacies to make them misleading. Safety management has developed its own fable.” - Terry Mathis CEO, ProAct Safety, Inc. This podcast recorded on�21January 2008. This podcast is a reading of an article �Fallacies in the Safety Fable� was published in Oct 1997. This article can [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Motivating Employees to Accept A Behavioral Safety Process - It�s Not About Pointing Blame “There is a natural tendency to place blame for accidents.� It is not difficult for this tendency to find its way into your behavioral safety efforts.� Once there, it acts like a cancer attacking the vital employee motivation and involvement needed for success.” - Terry�Mathis CEO, ProAct Safety, Inc.� This podcast recorded on 11 January 2008. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Safety Culture Excellence - Introduction The Safety Culture Excellence is a new podcast series designed to assist you on your journey towards either achieving or sustaining Safety Culture Excellence. Each week we hope to bring you new ideas and based on your input, discuss topics that both positively and negatively influence and impact safety cultures. This first podcast is an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Introduction to Safety Culture Excellence The Safety Culture Excellence is a new podcast series designed to assist you on your journey towards either achieving or sustaining Safety Culture Excellence. Each week we hope to bring you new ideas and based on your input, discuss topics that both positively and negatively influence and impact safety cultures. This first podcast is an [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website