Start With End In Mind

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Start With the End In Mind

Driving your Safety Program to World Class!

Leadership is the ability of a single individual, through their actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement ~author unknown

 Are you a Leader? Do you have the Enthusiasm it takes to motivate others? How can you motivate employees to follow you? How can you measure your success? How can you recognize and reward those who step up? How can you recognize and reward those who exceed your expectations?

 Start with the end in mind, then develop a plan to get there.

•      The Annual Goals, Objectives & Action Plan should reflect ways to IMPROVE your Safety Performance (TRC/DART Injury rates). The Goals/Objectives must reflect Responsibility & Accountability & Measurements!! If you do not put much effort into it, you won't get much in the way of results either! If you develop safety activities to identify and correct hazards, conduct regular inspections and toolbox safety talks to keep safety at the forefront of everyone's mind, then you will start meeting your Goals and Objectives.

•      People will go above and beyond expectations to be recognized for their efforts. The Safety Recognition must be linked to achieving the Annual Goals and Objectives. If you do what you've always done, you will get what you've always gotten. Don't link the recognition to injuries, people may fail to report those minor injuries which will end up being major injuries because you didn't know about them and did nothing to fix the problems. Link the recognition to what you are doing (safety activities like inspections, observations, toolbox safety talks, stepping up and taking initiative without being told to do something), not to what isn't happening.

•      Participation + Recognition=Motivation to Excel: Managers & Supervisor must motivate everyone to participate in S&H activities! Enthusiasm is contagious! Leadership is the ability of a single individual, through their actions to motivate others to a higher level of achievement! Recognition motivates people to do better and to exceed your expectation.

•      People don’t do what you EXPECT, they do what you INSPECT. Inspections should be done in EVERY area at least EVERY week-Identifying and correcting hazards will reduce or eliminate potential for an employee to have an injury.  If you are not finding hazards, you aren't looking very hard!

•      What gets measured gets done. What gets' recognized gets done well! If you do not measure what you are doing to meet your goals, you will not know if you are improving or getting worse. Immediate recognition gets immediate results!!

•      Don’t bring a problem without a solution”, Employees are encouraged to report hazards or near miss incidents so we can investigate and reduce potential for more serious injuries But with a twist-"bring your ideas for solutions too".

Deborah Chek-Grow

Offering World Class Safety Solutions

9/18/2013

Author: Deborah Grow, Safety Specialist

Private Safety Consultant, assistant Damon Fall Protection and Coordinator EHS Network ~ Kansas.  Extensive safety experience in General Industry, Construction, D.O.T. Compliance, and OSHA consultation project.  Contact Deborah if you would like to schedule a consultation

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Accident Prevention Programs

Accident Rates too high?

Are your rates climbing and you just don't know what to do to get the injuries under control?  Can't afford to hire a full time Safety Manager to reduce the injuries?  But, can't afford another OSHA Inspection because your rates are too high?

We can help!  We have proven simple safety ideas that can reduce your injuries and reduce your worker's comp costs!

Are you recording accidents that do not meet the OSHA rule for recording?  Are you being diligent by attending the doctor's appointments with injured employees?

Are you conducting a thorough accident investigation to determine the root cause and also to determine if the injury is more likely work related or not even work related?

 

 

 

Are you recording ONLY the injuries that the employer has determined actually happened or most likely happened at work?  

Or are you one of those who "assumes if the employee reported it at any time to anyone, then it must be work related"?

You may just be over reporting stuff that should not be on your OSHA Log.  Give us a call today and we can audit your logs to see if they are accurate.

 

 

Author:  Deborah Grow, Safety Specialist

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Knowledge is Power

Knowledge is Power

If you don't know what you don't know, how can you know what you know?

 

Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon was the first person attributed to the phrase "Knowledge is Power'. It dates back to 1597 when he published the maxim in his book, "Meditationes Sacrae and Human Philosophy'.

 

“A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage." “The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about." “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

 

Without knowledge, one cannot be successful in life. To grow in one's career, gaining as much knowledge as possible is important. ... Knowledge is also very important to shape our personality and perfect our behavior and dealings with people. We need to understand ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses.

If you expect your employees to participate in safety simply because you pay them to work for you, you are going to be sadly disappointed in the results.  People don't participate in the unknown without being provided the encouragement and motivation and knowledge.

KISS is an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid" as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960. The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a key goal in design, and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided.
 
Safety and health program tasks are each specifically assigned to a person or position for performance or coordination.

Let's say for example that some electrical and machine guarding hazards were found during the walk through.  No one was assigned specific responsibility to inspect for electrical hazards.  Assign specific responsibility for performing inspections of electrical and machine guarding hazards, so these hazards do not continue to go undetected.  (The intent is to assign specific safety tasks to specific individuals and to hold that individual accountable.  Such as inspections for the hazards found during the walk through)


Each assignment of safety and health responsibility is clearly communicated.

Majority of employees can explain what performance is expected of them.  To ensure all employees know expectations, develop a detailed list of responsibility and accountability and have supervisors communicate that to all employees and post on safety bulletin boards


Individuals with assigned safety and health responsibilities have the necessary knowledge, skills, and timely information to perform their duties.

The individual assigned to perform weekly inspections did not have adequate knowledge of electrical or machine guarding rules.  (Intent is to determine if the individual assigned to various safety and health tasks has the knowledge and skills to perform the task)