In 2014, the National Safety Council kicked off an initiative called “The Journey to Safety Excellence,” a result of the Council’s understanding that many small to medium sized companies do not have the same safety resources and networking capabilities as larger corporations. To that end, the Council put together free assessment tools, resource information and a networking structure that smaller companies could utilize at no cost — so they could start down their own path of safety excellence. In this presentation, attendees will learn how businesses of many types can benefit in utilizing the free resources. This webinar takes the audience through the steps of continuous safety process improvement, and talks through a real-life scenario of how a company could utilize each aspect of the Journey to Safety Excellence resources. To join or learn more about The Journey to Safety Excellence, visit: http://www.nsc.org/Measure/Pages/journey-to-safety-excellence.aspx.

2. Presenters
Pat Cunningham, MS
Director of Safety &
Auditing Services, BROWZ
Dr. Amy Harper
Journey to Safety Excellence
& Workplace Strategy Director

3. Agenda
Orientation & Introduction
Company Commonalities
Explanation - Journey to Safety Excellence (JSE)
JSE Scenario – Tangible Resources
Recommendations

4. About BROWZ
BROWZ ensures supply chains are safe, qualified and
socially responsible by delivering comprehensive
solutions to prequalify, assess, and monitor safety
compliance based on the unique needs of our clients
business.
BROWZ provides supplier qualification and
management for the world’s largest organizations,
including name-brand Fortune 50 companies, we
support supply chain needs all around the world.
BROWZ is headquartered in Salt Lake City, with offices
in New York City, Toronto, London, Perth, Sydney and
Dusseldorf to support our customers around the globe.
BROWZ is an Advocate
sponsor of the Journey
to Safety Excellence

5. BROWZ Introduction to the Journey
National Safety Council Delegate’s mid-year meeting: Houston, TX, 2013
• Introduction: future focus of the Council’s efforts – with the concept of the, ‘Journey to Safety
Excellence’
- National Safety Council Vision: “Eliminating Preventable Deaths in our Lifetime”
- Realization that many small to mid-sized companies do not have the same resources as most of the
Council’s corporate members
- To assist these companies, services would need to be free, and not require NSC membership

6. Commonalities
In the BROWZ world-view, there are two types of companies:
1) Host Employers:
Reliance on supplier companies to assist them in creating their
products/services. Has a vested interest to evaluate & provide guidance to
their supply chain contractor companies in safety process improvement.
2) Contractor Companies (prime, subs & temp staffing agencies):
Acknowledge they would like to make improvements in their safety
programs, need to be vetted & seek guidance from their larger business
clients (learning & abiding by their protocols).

7. Host Employers
Constraints:
• May have received legal counsel not to “train” contractors
• Conflict of interest: if they perform external supplier
auditing & provide contractors with written programs:
- Lose the integrity of the external audit
- Might create a false sense of Supplier compliance, ability to
work safely (policy without investment in employee training,
equipment purchase, etc.)
• Limited time to spend on assisting their supply chain
companies

8. Contractor Companies
Constraints:
• Limited employment/financial resources:
- may not have a dedicated safety professional
- May not have a labor/management safety committee
- Inability to go to regional or national safety conferences
• Unsure how to start a safety improvement process
• Lacking an effective safety networking structure – ideas for
problem solving & process improvement
• May not have metrics, or a long-term vision for safety
improvement

9. Journey Safety Excellence
National Safety Council: “The importance of safety in business goes beyond compliance.
Safety is a value, and opportunity to engage all employees in a journey that prevents
harm, enhances productivity and contributes to profitability”
The Journey to Safety Excellence helps answer the followingquestions and provides
resources to encourage you along the way:
- Where am I now, and where do I want to be?
- How do I move forward?
- How do I manage my measurement and improvement process?

10. Investment in Safety

11. “Moving the Curve”

12. What is the Journey?

13. Register
Join the Journey >> www.nsc.org/journey

14. Journey Home Page

15. Journey Tools Dashboard

16. Adding a Location

17. Incident Rate Calculator

18. View Report

19. Industry Benchmark Reports

20. Safety System Assessment

21. Assessment Form

22. Assessment Report

23. Assessment Results
PDF report containing percentile scores by:
• Item
• Factor
• Pillar

24. Employee Safety Perception Survey

25. Perception Survey Email
Two options:
• Forward email to employees (English version only)
• Use paper/pencil version and enter data yourself (English & Spanish versions available)

26. Employee Survey Form

27. Number of Surveys Completed by Location

28. Survey Results

29. Review All Results & Find Common Themes

30. Journey – Guide Examples
5 guides (& sub sections):
1. Basics: Compliance Assistance
2. Leadership: 3
3. Safety Management Systems: 8
4. Risk Reduction: 8
5. Performance Measurement: 3

31. Ask Us

32. Journey by the Numbers
Over 5,800 total web registrants covering nearly 2.7 million workers*
63% are non-NSC members
23% are from organizations with 100 or fewer employees
44% are managers of others
36% are in non-safety job roles
38% have 5 or fewer years safety experience; 58% with 10 or fewer years
78% users are satisfied with JSE
85% said JSE tools were easy to use
*Note: Based on reported number of workers at locations of those that joined.

33. Scenario: Transportation Company
• Company considering a total cell phone/electronics ban for drivers
• Want to see the Council’s position on cell phones, and what free resources
might be available
• Employer still needs to communicate with drivers while they are out; wants
advice on how to make the policy firm yet flexible

34. Scenario: Transportation Company
Review a wide range
of publications on
the topic of cell
phone safety &
download available
kit information

35. Scenario: Transportation Company

36. Ask Us e-mail

37. Recommendations
Host Employers:
• Review history of your own company’s safety journey:
- Desire to assist your own supply chain
- Contemplate, “Does this feel like the right thing to do?”
• Share JSE information with your supply chain companies – to create their own safety road map
• ‘Join the Journey’ yourself & use reference materials/tools
Contractor Companies – Self Assessment:
• ‘Join the Journey’ – safety program gap analysis, structure & direction for improvement
• Obtain free educational resources
• Become part of a national safety network to ask questions, receive responses
• Start your own journey of continuous safety process improvement

38. Questions
Pat Cunningham, MS
Director of Safety &
Auditing Services, BROWZ
Amy Harper
Journey to Safety Excellence
& Workplace Strategy Director
Join the Journey www.nsc.org/journey