Design for Y To Attain Safety Xcellence! 
(The Culture Model)

In its purist form, business is a process designed to produce the Y-words…and when designed correctly, safetY can be one of them.  If you’re typical, you’ve built a safety program, and have invested a lot of time in compliance, yet efforts haven’t equaled results—there continues to be disparity between what is required (policy) and what actually occurs (at-risk behaviors).  This is due to the two safety programs all companies have—The written one, which exists in the procedure manual (a tad dusty); and the unwritten one, which lives day-to-day in the minds of the people… and which is the most powerful and controlling.  Success requires that we manage what’s real…what’s in the minds, not the manuals.  We must go beyond ‘safety as a program’ and shape the drivers of our process—we must impact the culture; the unwritten rules which determine what’s really important in an organization.

This presentation constructs a safety culture model and identifies seven key elements and their relationships, which shape culture and govern safe behavior in most organizations.  These factors are:

• Safety as a core shared VALUE

• A safety VISION recognizing people as requisite to success

• LEADERSHIP practices capable of influencing safe followership

• HUMAN RELATIONS as fundamental to safe performance

• A COMMUNICATIONS architecture which assures safe messaging

• INTEGRATION of safety into organizational decision-making… and

• CONSEQUENCE DELIVERY, which rewards safe, and discourages at risk behaviors.

Each of these factors influences the culture of an organization, and the actions of its members from the executive suites to the shop floor.  This session explores this force of culture and the seven key elements that drive safe as how business is done in world class organizations. 
 

Welcome to the Jungle (You Know This Place?)

This facilitated case study explores culture change and identifies the critical cause and effect relationship between strong Leadership (actions taken) and Culture Change, (heightened Human Performance), and improved organizational Results!  The program employs sequential Q & A sessions which guide participants in identifying signs of needed culture change, and recognizing those critical leadership values, decisions, and actions which enable an organization to overcome substantial obstacles, increase performance, and ultimately forge a new value system (culture), capable of generating dramatically improved results.  The session frames those leadership practices critical to driving change for the better in an organization.  Bottom line…one of a leader’s key jobs, when necessary, is to destroy old cultures and build new ones…This is a case study of leadership lessons learned from such a transformation. 
 

Of Dark Matter and White Space

This session provides a solid understanding on the soft and often nebulous topic of safety culture…that powerful force that lives between the lines of organizational structure…in the white spaces!    The session defines culture, discusses its power and importance and identifies its key characteristics and elements.
 

Exposing The Invisible Force

This session discusses methods and approaches for identifying, diagnosing, and harnessing the elements of safety culture in an organization.