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This month's Professional Safety magazine (March 2011) includes a great article on Safety Management (by Thomas A. Smith). Can you relate to this?
"If the problem (safety concern) is systemic, yet workers are blamed, management will lose their respect now and in the future. In addition, if nothing has been done to fix the system that allowed the mistake to occur, that means something similar can occur......We have met the enemy and he is us!" |
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SAFETY LEADERSHIP:
The Principle: "I don't have a right to make my living where it is okay for you to get hurt." ~Richard N Knowles, Belle, WV The leadership of safety is a key focus in our leadership work. Over 95% of all injuries and incidents are the result of the actions of people. So reducing unsafe behaviors is the path to reducing injuries and incidents. Our processes quickly generate alignment, focus and energy producing visible, easily measured results through the reduction of unsafe acts; this is the path to reducing injuries and results. SAFETY LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS: We engage the workforce in this practical, hands-on approach which enables the people to see their actual safety behaviors, helps them to co-create and reach rational solutions to their safety issues and supports them as they move forward to doing the real work of building a safer workplace. Often, the participants quickly see how to apply the ideas and skills learned in these workshops to other parts of their business resulting in broadly based , sustainable business improvements. We use proprietary, proven processes to accomplish this in these 1-2 day workshops. Over 150 of these Safety Leadership Workshops have been successfully run in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in the last 10 years. When Management and Safety Leaders credibly support this work, the injury and incident rates drop to significantly lower levels and the new performance is sustainable.
THE BUSINESS CASE: Since an average OSHA Recordable Injury costs between $25,000 and $30,000, a rapid reduction in injuries results in significant improvements in earnings as well as in employee morale and dedication. Those organizations, who build on the workshops we lead, use the maps we've developed together, and actively support the safety teams and their discussions see rapid improvements in the organization's safety performance - often achieving over a 50% reduction in injury frequency rates in just a few months. |
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"I don't have a right to make my living where it is okay for you to get hurt." Richard N. Knowles
Richard N. Knowles & Associates Inc.
email:
rnknowles@aol.com
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