1. SAFE 101
Chapter 3

2. OBJECTIVES Define safety culture? Benefits of a Safety Culture.
Managements Role in a Safety Culture.
How to Change or Build a Safety Culture.
Exploring Safety Myths.

4. What is a Safety Culture?

5. Benefits of a Safety Culture
Top-down action by management
Bottom up individual awareness
Shared responsibility for safety
Adequate and realist training
Auditing performance in workplace
Investment in safer equipment, material & processes
Communication in safety committee or otherwise

6. Management’s Role Earn worker’s trust Focus on safety as a goal
Consistently act in favor of safety
Involve employees in developing programs

7. REWARD & INCENTIVES
Is it important/necessary to have reward and incentive programs?

8. Changing Your Safety Culture to Prevent Injuries & Illnesses

9. 95% or more accidents and injuries are related to human factors.

10. Primary Causes of Accidents:
Half of injuries are caused by a loss of focus.
Half of injuries are caused by the mindset “it won’t happen to me.”

11. Conventional Approach
PPE
SOPs
OSHA Training
Audits & Inspection
Observation

12. Conventional Approach
Can take 5 – 10 years to produce significant change

13. Can produce significant change in 1 – 2 years
Culture Change
Can produce significant change in 1 – 2 years

14. Culture Change Approximately 50% reduction in recordables in 1 year
Approximately 80-90% reduction in recordables in 5 years

15. Save up to twice your annual w/c payment over 5 years.
Culture Change
Save up to twice your annual w/c payment over 5 years.

16. The Mind
Wear your PPE “It won’t happen to me”

17. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes and mind.”
William James

18. You have to recognize that people are still most important.
Treat Employees Well
You have to recognize that people are still most important.
Herb Kelleher, CEO Southwest Airlines

19. Focus on People
In order for a company to be profitable, it first has to be a safe company.

20. Myth #1: Crisis is a powerful impetus for change.

21. Reality:
Only a small percent of people can make a healthy, sustainable, life style change.
May, 2005: Fast Company

22. Myth #2: Change is motivated by fear.

23. Reality:
Compelling, positive visions of the future are much stronger inspirations for change.
May, 2005: Fast Company

24. Myth #3:
The facts will set us free.
May, 2005: Fast Company

25. Reality:
When a fact doesn’t fit our personal reality, we reject it. Change is best inspired by emotional appeals rather than factual statements.

26. Myth #4: Small, gradual changes are always easier to make and maintain
Myth #4: Small, gradual changes are always easier to make and maintain. May, 2005: Fast Company

27. Reality:
Radical sweeping changes are often easier than gradual changes because they quickly yield benefits.

28. We can’t change because our brains become ‘hardwired early in life.’
Myth #5:
We can’t change because our brains become ‘hardwired early in life.’
May, 2005: Fast Company

29. Reality:
Our brains have extraordinary ‘plasticity’. We can continue learning complex things throughout our lives.

31. Crisis Using a single level approach: Using a multi- level approach:
a smaller number can make a healthy, sustainable change
Using a multi- level approach:
a significantly higher number can make a healthy sustainable change

32. Multi-Level Approach Evaluate Train and involve everyone Reinforce
System & structure
On-going support

33. Safety vs. Production

34. Goals of Policy
1. A primary goal of a workplace safety policy is to establish the expectation that it is the responsibility of all personnel to create and maintain a safe work environment.

35. Goals of Policy
2. The organization’s safety policy should also address the organization’s obligations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act to maintain a safe workplace.

36. Goals of Policy
3. The organization’s workplace safety policy should require employees to use universal precautions when applying first-aid or providing personal care to clients or each other. Exposure at the workplace to diseases that are transmitted by body-fluids, such as Hepatitis and AIDS, is regulated by OSHA.

37. CASE STUDY 1: SH&E Policy
Research three (3) safety and health policy statements of similar companies (same industry) and copy the company’s safety and health policy.
Compare and explain any similarities/differences in the safety and health policy statements.
Include all references APA style.
DUE Friday: February 7, 2014