Safety Belief #1 Safety Is Not Hard Behavior’s are an interesting thing. In one hand we all know we have behavioral strengths and limitations. Yet we tend to let circumstance direct our behavior’s. Instead, we should proactively prepare our behavior’s for how environments impact our behavior’s. It is for this
Silencing Awareness On Hazard Identification Organizations spend lots of time, effort and resources training to promote hazard identification with their employees. In a safety program identifying and controlling hazards can be hard to achieve as people see hazards differently. Some people will consider an action like driving over 10% of
The Basic Needs of Safety Understanding behaviors can appear be quite a challenge. In contrast, understanding behaviors is not as difficult as it seems to be. The key to understanding why we do what we do is putting your own behavior under examination. When we do these thought experiments, we
Changing Safety A Culture of Care Series blog #3 Spencer Beach October 12, 2021 Have you ever been in a meeting where the boss said, “we are going to change the way we do things around here”? It amazes me on how many people can relate to this question. What
The Relationship of Safety and Trust A Culture 0f Care Blog Series #2 Spencer Beach Sept 13, 2021 Introduction In Part 1 of the A Culture of Care blog series we learned how OSHA has had significant results in decreasing incident rates. OSHA achieved this by focusing on controlling the
Safety 2.0 is the beginning of the A Culture of Care blog series. It will be focusing on understanding workers behaviors and engaging workers’ culture. The goal will be to break through incident rate plateaus through incorporating behaviors into the safety systems. What is Safety 2.0? It is a concept
The Rush Job If there are two words that make quality and safety become expendable; those two words would be “rush job”. What is A Rush Job? Here is an odd question; have you ever considered what a rush job’s is? If you are like most people that answer is
The Safety Bubble Why do people often have a reaction when we approach their safety? Sometimes they pushback with anger, frustration, insults and even violence, like in cases of road rage. When we understand what causes this pushback we can reduce and remove these emotional reactions as we improve how
It Can’t Happen to Me By Spencer Beach, May 5, 2021 A safety professional recently asked me “how do you address a worker who has a ‘it can’t happen to me’ attitude”? This prompted me think about the difference of “it can’t happen to me” versus “it can happen
Driving Corporate Culture Have you ever heard these statements before; “nobody moves – nobody gets hurt” or “you might as well wrap me in bubble wrap, throw me in a padded room. I’ll never do anything again”? These statements occur under a workers breath or they are said openly once
