“Improving the Odds…from 50/50 to 24/7”

DuPont CEO, Chad Holliday Jr., upon accepting the National Safety Council’s 2006 Green Cross for Safety award said: "Safety excellence requires a mindset that cannot be turned off when people come to or leave work. Improving ‘off-the-job’ safety improves the safety mindset that leads to overall safety improvement.” With these words, Holliday raised the bar of safety excellence…managing health and safety during the ‘other 16 hours’ that employees are off the job is no longer an option—it’s a core requisite of safety excellence companies.

To optimize operational performance, we must view safety through a single common lens that enables us to recognize and respond to common hazards on and off the job that can cause personal loss and reduce of organizational effectiveness. The workplace and home front present common hazards with similar injury potential. And, statistics now confirm that for many organizations, off the job injuries are a greater threat to employees (and their families) than are occupational injuries. A recent Home Safety Council study reveals that off the job injuries account for 20,000 deaths, 21 million medical visits, and cost American employers and employees over 38 billion dollars…a price tag that is growing annually.

To achieve peak performance…and minimize ‘hard dollar’ costs, all stakeholders of an organization (managers, workers and families) must develop a Safety Excellence vision; an ability to shift safety from a ‘50/50’ (on the job only) proposition, to a clear line of sight of safety being a 24/7 commitment to safer and healthier lifestyle choices! The costs for failing to aggressively manage health and injury risks on and off the job are devouring both corporate and individual incomes. Stemming this drain will require a shared commitment to effectively managing both 'occupational and non-occupational' risk factors.

Health and Safety is indeed a matter of: “Pay me now (an ounce of prevention) or pay me a lot more later. Health and Productivity Management (HPM) studies clearly identify those critical health factors that we must manage better NOW, (smoking, diet, exercise and BP) and the consequences that predictably we will pay (EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE) in the form of higher health care costs and a severely depreciated ‘quality of life’ if we fail to do so. The coronary care profession offers us this harsh truth: “Americans aren’t living longer because they’re making better lifestyle choices, Americans are living longer because we’re making better drugs!”

Attend this session to learn how you can improve your personal and organizational safety and health odds from 50/50 (a suckers bet)…to 24/7 – “I’m all in!”
 

THESE POPULAR SEMINARS vary in length from 2-hour sessions to 1½-day seminars.  All sessions can be customized to meet your specific content or duration needs.  Please phone me at (315) 383-3801 or e-mail me to discuss any title listed, or to collaborate on a specific requirement you have.