Safety Leadership Development
"When the leaders don't lead, the followers don't follow." This is especially true in safety. Leaders constantly communicate priorities and strategies to their workers, whether they intend to or not. With training, leaders can take active control of the messages they send to promote safety as an organizational value. They can set levels of expectation that point everyone in the direction of safety excellence and exert a positive influence on the formation of safety culture.
Safety Cop or Coach?
Most managers and supervisors don't have the latest training and tools for coaching workers to perform their jobs safely. This lack of training often results in trying to police the workforce rather than coach their performance. Policing safety has proven to be a less-than-perfect method of improving accident and severity rates and often promotes underreporting. Becoming an effective coach can leverage a manager's or supervisor's influence to make significant gains in accident reductions. Coaching skills also improve other areas of performance including quality and productivity as well as safety. The benefits to the organization impact almost every area of human performance.
Training Leaders to be Safety Coaches
The training contains the latest behavioral coaching techniques and directly applies them to improving safety. A model for counseling problem employees or addressing serious safety situations is also included. The design of the training utilizes advanced learning techniques and helps attendees to apply the models in the classroom to reality-based scenarios right out of the workplace. A plan to implement the new coaching techniques is completed at the end of the session
The training can be delivered two different ways:
- ProAct Safety®'s consultants or trainers can deliver the training at your site or ours in 1/2-day, 1-day, or 2-day models or as a series of 1/2 day sessions.
- Your Internal Consultant(s) can attend a Certification Workshop in which he or she learns to deliver this important training to your managers and/or supervisors in a 1/2 day, 1 day or 2 day model or as a series of 1/2 day sessions. Your trainer(s) can learn the module in an intensive 2-day session either at your site (for multiple trainers) or at one of our public seminars.
Results
Organizations that have implemented Safety Leadership Coaching have experienced accident reduction up to 55% the first year. Some organizations have used this training to prepare for employee-involvement safety strategies such as Behavior-Based Safety or OSHA's VPP and others have used it after such initiatives. Whatever your current status, giving these skills to your leaders can have a significant impact on your safety indicators.
What our Clients have to say...
"I have had the pleasure of working with Shawn on two plant-level safety transformations. In both cases, Shawn drove lasting and sustained safety improvement by elevating the skills and capabilities of the management team and, at the same time, transforming the attitudes of production employees. Both assignments were extremely challenging - older facilities with established cultures and ways of working. Success in such environments truly demonstrates the efficacy and utility of Shawn's approach and abilities. I would recommend him and his firm without hesitation to anyone that is serious about transforming their safety culture."
Yurij Wowczuk, General Manager, Illinois Tool Works
"Somewhere in a dictionary under the definition of effective is a picture of Shawn Galloway with the following attributes listed:
- Constantly seeking knowledge
- Able to transfer new information to action
- A highly effective communicator
- A human being with a drive to empower his fellow man
- Most importantly someone that you can trust and depend on
If you want to learn how to be a professional seek out Shawn as a mentor."
Tim Lovley, Director Health & Safety, Dynegy
"The ProAct Safety team nailed the essence of the issues facing successful managers on the safety front and has given them tools to become great leaders."
Ken Ciarletta, Regional Operations Manager, Bluelinx
"Shawn has been a great contributor for Canadian Occupational Safety, as a regular columnist and host of our monthly video series, Culture Shock with Shawn Galloway. Shawn is a very engaging motivational speaker. His vast expertise in safety leadership and safety culture excellence is evident from the way he talks and interacts with people, and the audience's reaction to his talks and his articles. Any organization would be lucky to have Shawn as a speaker and/or trainer. I always look forward to hearing him speak at conferences."
Mari-Len De Guzman, Editor, Canadian Occupational Safety Magazine
"If you want to engage and energize your employees Shawn is the guy to hire. He recently spoke to our group of HSES professionals and many people have told me how much they enjoyed his presentations. For those of you in the safety field Shawn "Gets It" and can communicate "It" to a broad audience. I knew when I looked over and saw the site manager (~7,000 employees onsite) taking notes we had the right speaker!"
Steven Addington, Industrial Safety Specialist, Eastman Chemical Company
"I have heard a lot of speakers in my time but Mr. Terry has been one of the best. I was very impressed! I feel like Mr. Terry has given us a game plan or strategies to make us all better on coaching our guys to want to work safely."
Michael Johnson, Senior VP, AMCOL/President, CETCO Oilfield Services
"We engaged Shawn to help us develop a Safety Leadership Workshop that we could replicate across all our facilities. Shawn's expertise and experience were a welcome addition. He provided valuable insight to our process."
David Boinstall, VP EH&S, NewPage Corporation