We focus so heavily on preventing injuries that we neglect the things that CAUSE safety.

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Causing Safety
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2018

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Introduction
■ Housekeeping
■ Who is this goofball and why
should I listen to him?

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Hardwiring Safety to Improve Business Results
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Safety is the output of well-run business systems.
SAFETY
Competency
Process
Capability
Leadership
Hazard &
Risk
Management
Accountability
Systems
Engagement

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Competency
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 People who know how to do
their jobs properly are better
able to do these jobs more
safely than those who don’t
 Getting the right people in
the right jobs is important
 Periodically verifying that
people haven’t lost their
skills or drifted away from
the standard is critical
 Training and performance
evaluation is key
 Depending on “common
sense” gets people hurt or
killed

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Process Capability
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■ Your process isn’t supposed to
hurt people
■ People who work within a stable
process are less likely to get
injured than people who have
to figure out the job from scratch
every day
■ The best bet for protecting
workers is to be sure that
everyone works “in-process”
■ Process improvement efforts
must never sacrifice people for
production

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• Leaders must be the
change they want to see.
• Leading by example is
one of the best ways to
engage workers in safety
• Leaders must consistently
articulate safety as a
value and act in alignment
with them
• Leaders must provide
clear expectations for
safety for ALL levels of the
organization.
Leadership

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Hazard and Risk Management
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■ Hazard and risk management
are skills
■ Organizations must have a
robust process that identifies,
contains, and corrects hazards
and that mitigates risks
■ Risk is not universal

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Accountability Systems
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■ Understanding Risk Tolerance
■ Appropriate Responses to
Behaviors that Effect Safety
■ Holding People Answerable for
Their Roles In Safety
■ Act with an eye toward just
consequences

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Behaviors & Accountability
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Human error
■ Everyone makes mistakes but no one should have to die from them
■ While mistakes are unavoidable there are things we can manage
Risk Taking
■ People have to understand their decision rights
■ People at all levels must be held accountable for taking educated risks
Recklessness

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Engagement
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■ No one wants to get hurt
■ Motivation is about working for a reward
■ Engagement is about doing things because it’s the right thing to do
■ Stop work authority
■ “See something, say something, do something”
■ If you see it, you own it

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Questions and Comments
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