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3 Ways to Make Safety Meetings Matter
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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Are you meeting the needs of your people in safety meetings? How many times have you seen presenters, with 10 minutes of solid information, stretch it into a 90-minute presentation? How does that happen? Here’s how. The person organizing the safety meeting is trying to fill blocks of time instead of developing content that will make a difference to their people.
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5 Key Ingredients to Building Safety Engagement
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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If you want to change safety performance, you have to change the approach and the conversation. In safety, there are no trade secrets. The same set of rules apply to every company within an industry. Construction safety applies to all builders. Mining safety is the same for every mine. Electrical safety is the same for every electrician. Whatever your industry, your competitors don’t get a leg up because they have different rules to play by. Everyone has the same rules and the same code.
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Yes, You CAN Make People Care About Safety!
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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If you want your people to care, do and say the things that matter to them. Why won't people just follow the safety rules? Why don't they speak up at meetings or take the paperwork seriously? Tough questions to ask if you’re a supervisor or safety person trying to get their people to care about safety. But, here's the good news: you can make people care about safety.
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4 Ways to Stop Safety Complacency
Posted by Kevin Burns on June 2, 2019
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The supervisor is the first line of defense when it comes to complacency. You probably take great pride and talk proudly of your people, competent teams who do excellent work. But, from time to time little issues are starting to show up in the form of small mistakes, and memory and judgment lapses. That’s complacency-creep.
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Make Your Safety Job Redundant
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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The safety of others is more important than clinging to your job. Who is benefitting most from you showing up at work each day? Your co-workers or you? The answer to this question illustrates your intent.
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The Most Influential Person in Safety Is Not Who You Think
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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We have the best people and the best safety processes more than ever, so you have to wonder why we are still hurting people? For 50 years, safety has been promoted as being all about rules, processes, regulations, paperwork, inspections, reporting. We’ve organized a lot of meetings, and talked far too much about rules, and we’ve endured death by Powerpoint, and tried to get traction on the cutesy slogans, and tired, worn-out clichés. Oh, sure we've developed some new technology but mostly to make it easier to pencil-whip checklists and file reports. There’s not much that has been developed to make safety more engaging, and inspiring, and motivating.
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(video) How To Intensify Safety Participation
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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What is your intent when it comes to safety? Ever thought about how to make mission, vision and purpose statements more powerful and to help improve safety doing it? Even more powerful than a corporate mission statement is a crew mission statement. Kind of like a team purpose or plan that galvanizes the crew members.
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(Video) It Seems Like Your People Don't Care About Safety, But...
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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It seems like your people don't care about safety, but they do. Yes, your people do care about safety. They just don't care the way you care about it, because they see safety differently than you do. Everyone cares about something. However, what's appealing and motivating to you is not always appealing and motivating to someone else. Your goals for safety improvement may be important to you, but your people need to have a benefit in working harder to reach those goals.
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The 2 Approaches to Safety Meetings That Are Wrong ... and what to do.
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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There are two approaches taken to safety meetings and usually both are wrong. This video explores the two most common forms of ineffective safety meeting ... and what to do instead. In this video, you will learn:
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How to Build Teamwork and Your Reputation
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
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Good team members are reliable. They do the right thing at the right time for the good of the team. And, their co-workers can rely on them to do the right thing always. That goes a long way in building your reputation. When you're at work, your team members want to be able to rely on the other members of the team. All of them. Would the people you work with, if they had to pick out three employees, name you as one of the top three most reliable team members in safety and who consistently look out for the welfare of others?
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