Business Excellence Consortium

Safety Champion Certificate

The BEC is offering a ½-day session designed to help Top Executives realize why instilling a culture of safety is so critical their company's future. This culture of safety is not only in business, but also carries over into homes and communities. In this session a "Safety Needs Analysis" is reviewed to enable individual companies to understand opportunities available to their organization to reduce total recordables and create a world-class safety culture. Top Executives will establish their company total case rate goals based on the needs analysis results and national averages of other companies just like theirs. These goals are then rolled out to the rest of the company.

If owners & top executives want to get their organizations to world-class, buy in must start with them. There must be a corporate commitment to safety. They have to walk the walk and talk the talk. Safety must be a core corporate value. Companies that make the connection between safety and corporate social responsibility and implement the right programs will be world-class.

Participants will understand direct and indirect costs of injuries at specific profit margins. By illustrating the costs of injuries and the dollars that can be saved by preventing them companies begin to understand how they can get a ROI on the money spent on safety programs.

Top Executives are educated on the importance of empowering middle management and supervisors to make changes. However, empowerment cannot come with out measures. Top Management will understand what will need to happen administratively and how the supervisors and middle management will execute the program and measure results.

The following Operating Principals are rolled out:

1. We strive to prevent all occupational injuries and illnesses
2. Working Safely is a condition of employment
3. Each of us is responsible and accountable for the safe behavior of others and ourselves
4. Health & Safety is led by senior management, implemented by line management, with each level accountable to the one above and the one below.
5. All employees will have the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities to work safely
6. We will design Health & Safety into everything we do
7. Safety is Safety no matter what industry
8. Safety is a process, not a program
9. Good Health & Safety performance is good business

Objectives:

• Understanding how to determine the Accident Goal
• Learn the dynamics of a Team
• What is World Class?
• Team Needs
• Motivators vs. De-Motivators
• Employees work safely because superiors & coworkers hold them accountable
• All employees realize that they have control over workplace/home safety becoming accountable to them
• Safety becomes a personal choice
• Understand Cost Drivers
• Review company operating principles and make appropriate changes
• Define roles & responsibilities
• Determine Standard Operating Procedures for:
  Measurable, Disciplines, Corrective Action, Communication, Incentives

Upon completion of the Safety Champion Certificate, participants will:

• Understand the role they play in creating a zero tolerance safety culture
• Understand how safety has an impact on their bottom line
• Have established clear organizational safety goals
• Have an implementation plan to help their employees to think & act safely 24/7