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… Giving Safety A Lift At the Grande Prairie Sawmill Giving Safety A Lift At the Grande Prairie Sawmill BY Download PDF file "Danger" and "sawmill" seem to be naturally associated words, yet Weyerhaeuser Canada's Grande Prairie sawmill site, after 25 years of operation, holds one of the best safety records in the industry. However, being among the best in one industry isn't good enough, according to Doug Chappell, …
… 5 Tools for Pairing Lean Sigma with Behavior-Based Safety 5 Tools for Pairing Lean Sigma with Behavior-Based Safety BY Michael McCarthy Download PDF file By Michael McCarthy, Author of Sustain Your Gains: The People Side of Lean Six-Sigma Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) and Lean are two of the most widely used continuous improvement methodologies in industry today. Lean …
… Norfolk Southern From the CEO and senior team to the front line, Norfolk Southern commits to building and sustaining a new safety culture. Atlanta, GA: (December, 2012) – Aubrey Daniels International (ADI) is now several months into a long-term engagement to support NS’ efforts in shifting to a new safety culture. Despite record safety performance and 23 consecutive E.H. Harriman gold awards, NS determined that their safety leadership practices were …
… Setting Supervisors up for Safety Success: 5 Tips for Building Engagement No matter the industry, in all my years of experience working across … on the performance of the people who actually produce the products and/or deliver the service. This is particularly true in safety. Frontline supervisors are the linchpins of safety. They bring all the pieces of safety management together. They are responsible for executing the vision and values at …
… When Safety Systems Work Well I recently had the opportunity to do an assessment with a company that is a safety culture exemplar. At ADI, we work with a lot of companies that have sophisticated safety management systems, but this organization’s system is like a well-oiled machine. The safety subsystems function well …
… Safety Rewards Can Be Dangerous I just finished reading an ISHN article on safety incentives and the value of a gift card reward system to promote safety. To say that I didn't like it is an understatement. It reminds me of the many a "quick and dirty" programs that I …
… Transportation Company Transportation Company Multinational Transportation Company Improves Safety Culture Through Critical Safety Leadership Behaviors A multinational transportation company was interested in improving their safety performance, with particular emphasis on serious injuries and fatalities. After reading Safe by Accident and hearing …
… Supervisor's Guide to Safety Leadership Training IN-PERSON TRAINING TESTIMONIALS Supervisor's Guide to Safety Leadership Executing Vision and Values at the Front Line Learn practical skills for effectively managing safety. Frontline supervisors are the lynchpins of safety. They are responsible for bringing all of the pieces of safety …
… Lone Worker Safety Lone worker safety requires vigilant hazard recognition, mindful awareness of at-risk behaviors, and effective self-management. Lone worker populations require more than traditional behavior-based safety systems to maintain safety on the job. With advancements in technology, fewer and fewer teams of people can be found …
… Walking on (Wings in) Water: The Miraculous Impact of Safety Readiness Walking on (Wings in) Water: The Miraculous Impact of Safety Readiness BY Cindy Ashworth & Darnell Lattal Download PDF file USAirways Flight 1549, January 15, 2009 The forced … III, is highly trained, well experienced and an expert in airplane safe practices. One may presume he thinks in terms of safety first most of the time, both on and off the job. He knows his stuff. He followed a plan from the point of emergency …
… Merging the Methods of Behavior-Based Safety and Continuous Improvement: A Case Study Merging the Methods of Behavior-Based Safety and Continuous Improvement: A Case Study BY Terry Butler and Gail Snyder Download PDF file The Toyota Production … and construction-related equipment, began implementing Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) in 1998 and behavior-based safety (BBS) in the spring of 2001. Because of its contiguous layout and the close-to-identical similarity of each of its …
… Proactive Accountability for Safety Proactive Accountability for Safety BY JUDY L. AGNEW, Ph.D. Download PDF file When incidents occur in business, there is often a call to find those who are responsible and hold them accountable for their actions. Accountability is essential in safety, but the question is, does accountability always have to include negative consequences? In too many cases, …
… Employees Have Spoken…Fear and Failed Leadership Prove Disastrous in Safety Finally, we hear the truth! In a July 21st NY Times article, " Workers on Doomed Rig Voiced Concern About Safety " results of a confidential survey completed by employees in the weeks before the rig exploded are unveiled. Most alarmingly, safety concerns of workers on the rig included: fear of reporting mistakes, observed unsafe behavior, unreliable and unsafe …
… getting results. “I had a very, very successful career as a coal-mine superintendent with world-record production and great safety awards,” he said. “I have a bronze statue in my study at home right now that our coal mine won three times for the best safety performance in the company.” However, along the way something pivotal occurred that resulted in Latham designing a … company-wide, behavior-based incentive process currently used by each operation in the organization. Changing the Safety Culture CONSOL Energy's operations are based on five core values: Safety, Compliance, Continuous Improvement, …
… Stress and Safety: A Costly Relationship Stress and Safety: A Costly Relationship BY Darnell Lattal Download PDF file Note: During these times in particular, stress is being … Lattal's new book addressing the high cost of stress on the Japanese workforce will be available summer 2009. Stress and Safety: A Costly Relationship On April 25, 2005, a Japanese train jumped its tracks while going around a curve and ran into …