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How To Marry Production And Safety
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
How To Marry Production And Safety
Why aren’t production and safety working out of the same office? Here are five ways to marry safety and production. Production and safety blame the other for either slowing work down or increasing incident levels. Safety blames operations when there is a push on for greater production. Operations blame safety for holding up production. Neither wants to be wrong. Both want to be right. (Note: if you still believe that safety holds up production, you need to resign immediately.)
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You Say You Want Safety Culture, But Are You Ready?
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
You Say You Want Safety Culture, But Are You Ready?
6 minimum standards that are preventing you from establishing a strong safety culture. No one wants to see anyone injured. To build a safety culture requires more than just viewing safety as an injury-prevention program. It’s more than following rules and meeting minimum standards. To build a safety culture requires employees to be respectful of each other, to display courtesy and care about each other. Safety is a teamwork philosophy.
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5 Things You Absolutely Must Know To Shift Safety Culture
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
5 Things You Absolutely Must Know To Shift Safety Culture
Every single person in the organization has a hand in a strong safety culture. It doesn’t work any other way. Strong safety cultures are built on character and values like courtesy, respect, sharing, teamwork and personal leadership. They are not built on certifications, hierarchies, self-congratulations, position or tenure.
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3 Crucial Strategies To Improve Safety Culture
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
3 Crucial Strategies To Improve Safety Culture
To improve the culture of safety, take a long, hard look at how you frame communications about safety. Safety Culture will improve when the communications about safety within the organization improve. Besides increasing the quantity of communication, consider the quality.
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5 Reasons You're Not Getting Safety Buy-in
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
5 Reasons You're Not Getting Safety Buy-in
You have all of the control over your safety program and how many of your good people buy-in to the program. There are some things you can control and some you can not. What you can control is your participation in the safety program. No one can turn down or increase your participation in safety.
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3 Reasons You're Not The Boss Of Me In Safety
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
3 Reasons You're Not The Boss Of Me In Safety
You'd want your co-workers to make the right decisions if you were the boss of them. Well, you are the boss of you. So how about you act like you're in charge? Stop using the word leadership to describe management. We have all worked for managers who had zero leadership skills. You don’t call them your leader. You call them your boss. Leadership and management have little to do with each other.
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5 Conversations That Have Nothing And Everything To Do With Safety
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
5 Conversations That Have Nothing And Everything To Do With Safety
Improve the individuals and the organization as a whole gets better. Improve personal skills and the collective safety culture improves. Safety meetings, should solve problems and make the organization better. They are not meant to bore, to disengage or to frustrate. But they do. Meetings don’t have to entertain. But there is nothing wrong with entertaining employees and making work fun, even safety. Fun meetings engage employees and increase uptake.
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3 Critical Ways To Positively Communicate Safety
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
3 Critical Ways To Positively Communicate Safety
Do you want your people fearing for their safety? Or would you rather have them feeling confident and supported in their safe choices? The notice read: “An inspirational keynote speech preferably from someone who's had an accident. A leave-behind message to always be mindful and follow procedures. A flat fee of $(cheap). No phone calls please.”
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21 Reasons Employees Are Frustrated By Safety
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
21 Reasons Employees Are Frustrated By Safety
Highly engaged employees aligned with the safety program make the company money, reduce turnover and lower incident rates. Safety is fast becoming the best tool to recruit, hire and retain good people. Simply put, when yours is the best and safest place to work, you will attract and retain the best employees. But if your employees identify with even a few points on the list below, you will have some work to do in finding good people and, more importantly, hanging on to the good ones you have.
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How To Increase Accountability In Safety
Posted by Kevin Burns on October 1, 2024
How To Increase Accountability In Safety
It is impossible to create accountability in safety without getting every employee to make it a part of their job. Safety managers and front-line supervisors want employees to be more active and vocal about safety. They want employees to be more engaged in the decisions that the employees make and the results they get. They want more active participation in reporting, in actively talking about safety and a much higher involvement in being vocal at safety meetings.
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