“Stepping Up to Operational Safety Excellence”

“Excellence isn’t the opposite of mediocrity…Excellence is different.”
-Marcus Buckingham, Author
“First, Break all the Rules”
 

This program addresses the critical relationships linking an organization’s Safety Culture, i.e., its core leadership values and predominant management practices, to its ability to generate operational Safety Excellence results. The session differentiates an organization’s ‘safety program’ (activities of staff functions) from it’s ‘safety process’ (actions of line managers), and builds a four level organizational ‘step-change’ model which identifies the leadership beliefs, organizational characteristics, and management practices which dominate and define performance at each level along the ‘Safety Performance Continuum’: (SWAMP – NORM – EXCELLENCE & WORLD-CLASS), a/k/a - Unmanaged - Mismanaged -Managed, and ultimately Led!

Participants are challenged to solve for ‘X’ in the Safety Excellence equation: (10 x ‘X’ = Excellence), complete a Safety Culture characteristics assessment, which profiles their organization’s current positioning along the Safety Performance continuum, and engage in workshops to develop understanding and strategies to help their organizations ‘STEP-UP’ to the next level of safety performance. These exercises identify and target those areas presenting greatest opportunity for performance improvement and positive movement towards excellence. This seminar and facilitation is based on the presentation by the same name delivered at the ASSE ‘World-Class Safety Symposium’ of March 2004.
 

As a result of attending this session, participants will:

• Understand why true safety excellence requires Revolution, (new thinking, strategies, and approaches) rather than evolution (more of the same).

• Be able to identify the ‘four levels’ of organizational safety performance, and assess their organization’s leadership values and management practices, and organizational attributes which define its positioning along the ‘Safety Performance Continuum’.

• Be able to solve for ‘X’ in the ‘Safety Excellence’ equation: (10 x X = Excellence).

• Engage in a group self assessment to identify the organization’s predominant characteristics, and current placement along the Safety Excellence Continuum.
   

THESE POPULAR SEMINARS vary in length from two-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.