“Safety ROI: Build a Safety Culture to Reduce Accidents and Costs”
1-2 day workshop
We can help you take your safety culture to the next level by building on what you have established already or starting with a plank sheet of paper. This program is highly interactive with the audience working in groups to share ideas/obstacles and develop a living document to take back to their workplace for implementation. Part One: Overview
- History of “Safety Culture”
- The Business Case for Safety
Part Two: Components of World-Class Safety Cultures
- Management leadership
- Employee participation
Part Three: Safety Programs for Success
- Workplace Analysis Hazard Prevention and Control
- Accident and Record Analysis
- Medical and Emergency Response
- Safety Training
Part Four: Safety Culture Evaluation and Review
- Who should conduct the review
- Understand the “change cycle”
- Three assessment techniques
- Develop an action plan
- Implementation tools and techniques
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Safety Committees
“Building High Performance Safety Committees:
Maximize Success & Results”
1-2 day workshop
Time is money.
Learn to deliver better results in a shorter time with less stress and more support for safety committees. Safety Committees can be a profit center if they are established and managed properly. All attendees develop skills that can be transferred to many aspects of their lives.Fourteen states require/ recommend safety committees, so participants have a responsibility to deliver success and results in a timely manner.
A safety committee is a key element to achieving continuous improvement in a safety process. The purpose of a safety committee is to regularly bring workers and management together in a non-adversarial, cooperative effort to promote safety and health in the workplace. A safety committee assists the employer and makes recommendations for change regarding occupational safety and health issues. The committee's primary focus is to detect and correct workplace hazards.Benefits of Workplace Safety Committees
The benefits of having an effective safety committee include a reduction in the number of workplace injuries and illnesses, a reduction in the hidden costs associated with workplace injuries and illnesses, and an increase in employee safety awareness in the workplace.Safety committee costs will be directly offset by the effectiveness of the committee in reducing workplace injuries and illnesses. Hidden costs associated with workplace injuries can run 5 to 10 times the actual cost of a workers' compensation claim. Hidden costs include:
- Production delays.
- Time lost by workers and supervisors attending to an accident victim.
- Clean-up and start-up of interrupted operations.
- Costs related to conducting an accident investigation.
- Time spent retraining others to replace injured workers.
- Possible reduced worker morale and lower efficiency.
- Impact on employee, employee's family and personal life.
Five-Step Action Plan
- Establish the Foundation
- Recruit Safety Committee Members
- Form a Safety Committee
- Conduct Safety Committee Meetings
- Perform Follow-Up Activities
Some deliverables:
- Safety committee goals, purposes and objectives
- Setting priorities based on risk, exposure and costs
- Effective safety committees that get results: tools and techniques
- Projected completion dates for tasks
- Management’s commitment support and involvement
- Communication channels, reporting systems
- Initial and on-going training needs and schedules
- A tracking system to determine progress
- Safety committee record keeping system
- Follow-up activities
- Others to be added by the client
Documents/checklists delivered:
- How to conduct a workplace safety committee meeting
- Company policy statement
- Safety committee function with objectives and duties
- Workplace safety committee member duties
- Meeting agenda guide
- Meeting guidelines/protocol
- Safety Committee records of minutes
- Safety committee training documentation
- Workplace inspection checklist
Current costs of a safety committee:
6-7 employees meet for 2-3 hours. Given an average salary of $20 hour, each meeting costs $420. If the group meets monthly, the annual cost is $5,040 for meeting time only. This does not factor in the costs of ineffective results.Let me repeat this paragraph:
Safety committee costs will be directly offset by the effectiveness of the committee in reducing workplace injuries and illnesses. Hidden costs associated with workplace injuries can run 5 to 10 times the actual cost of a workers' compensation claim. Hidden costs include:
- Production delays.
- Time lost by workers and supervisors attending to an accident victim.
- Clean-up and start-up of interrupted operations.
- Costs related to conducting an accident investigation.
- Time spent retraining others to replace injured workers.
- Possible reduced worker morale and lower efficiency.
- Impact on employee, employee's family and personal life.
“Building High Performance Safety Committees: Maximize Success & Results” provides participants with specific tips and techniques to improve meetings:
- Six tips for more effective committees
- Ten duties of all safety committee members
- Four stages of team dynamics
- Five keys to agendas that deliver results quicker
- Three group process techniques for 100% participation
- Committing to a Safety Team Approach
This workshop will energize newly formed safety teams by helping members explore different team roles as well as four stages of team development. By learning through experiential exercises about behaviors that occur at each stage of team development, members will preempt resistance to the team approach. - Communicating Effectively In Safety Teams
Improve all key communication skills within the context of achieving safety team goals. This workshop systematically presents core communication skills such as active listening, giving and receiving feedback constructively, and reacting to others' ideas. - Resolving Safety Team Conflicts
This workshop focuses on resolving the types of conflicts that commonly occur in safety teams. Participants determine their natural conflict management styles through the use of the Conflict Style Inventory. They learn techniques for assessing conflict situation and applying the most appropriate conflict management style for each situation. - Creating a Shared Safety Team Purpose
The ideal starting point for creating a fully functioning, high performing safety team, this workshop will help team members establish a mission that can be used to guide the formulation of goals and objectives. A series of skill building exercises will get everyone working toward the common goal. - Planning for Safety Team Results*
This workshop enables safety team members to set goals and objectives that are in direct support of the team's purpose. Team members will learn to compose goals that are supported by specific measurable objectives. - Making Safety Team Meetings Work*
Meetings are the hub of team communication and decision-making. This workshop addresses why safety meetings should be called, how to prepare for them, and most importantly, how to conduct them effectively. - Evaluating Safety Team Performance
This workshop provides safety team members with an analytical framework for thoroughly evaluating nine critical dimensions of Team effectiveness. Participants will gain a clear understanding of their team's strengths and weaknesses, and will develop a process for improving team performance. - Making Safety Team Decisions by Consensus
When working in safety teams, it is critical to make decisions that all team members agree with and support. In this workshop, team members learn four basic decision making approaches and identify why consensus decision-making is most beneficial in a team setting. - Solving Safety Team Problems
In order for safety teams to be successful, they must be able to solve everyday problems decisively and effectively. With this workshop, teams will learn to do so while working on an actual problem the team currently faces. By the end of the workshop participants will be ready to implement solutions. - Utilizing Safety Team Members' Abilities
This workshop provides a framework by which safety teams can identify individual team members' strengths and reorganize to more efficiently achieve team objectives. Teams complete this training by developing an action plan to implement improved utilization of team human resources. Uses DISC Inventory.
2-day workshop (all modules)
1-day workshop (“a la carte”- select modules--#5* and #6* required)
Safety Program Improvement
“Take Your Safety Program from Good to Great”
1 hour seminar or 4 hour workshop
As Jim Collins states in his best selling book “Good to Great” ----“Good is the enemy of Great.” Isn’t that true with safety programs? When we feel we have developed and maintained a good safety program , we consider our task complete and work to keep it at that level. However, while criss- crossing the country to talk to various organizations, I have the distinct opportunity, and privilege, to find “best of class” segments almost everywhere. By compiling these lists, I feel confident in sharing with new audiences, how to “Take Your Safety Program from Good to Great.”Attendees are given a list of the 10 elements of a solid safety program…….employee involvement, hazard analysis, contractor safety, etc. In each of the 10 elements, behavioral examples are discussed for each level of maturity of the program.
From that, attendees identify which level of performance they are currently achieving in their organization. From this, they not only learn their current status , but also hear what it would criteria is necessary to take them to the next level of achievement.
Attendees are given the following gap analysis measure:
| Overall Score | GAP ANALYSIS |
5 | Outstanding program |
4 | Superior program |
3 | Basic program |
2 | Developmental program |
1 | No program or ineffective program |
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