Business Excellence Consortium

Safety Leader Certificate

The BEC is offering a 6-hour session where Middle Management & Supervisors are given the tools necessary to implement a world-class safety program. Supervisors of the next generation not only have to be armed with the technical knowledge of OSHA compliance in addition to the softer side of safety or the human element of behavior. Understanding behaviors and how to change them is the key to a world-class safety culture. A world-class safety culture is zero acceptances for accidents/ injuries at work and at home. Successfully implementing a culture of safety through behavior techniques is a very powerful tool, which will save companies substantial dollars while increasing profits. There is ROI in safety. Typically for every dollar spent on safety a company can return three to six.

Supervisors are typically thought of as the eyes and ears of the company. Therefore, they are the best front line for safety. If they do not have the skills necessary to execute a world-class safety culture the program will fail and injuries will occur. Supervisors are taught the basic techniques needed and the instructor helps the supervisor turn them into skills by continuous role-play and repetition. The role-play, while uncomfortable for most at first, provides the confidence level needed for them to execute in their real worlds citations.

Supervisors evolve by taking ownership for their personal safety as well as everyone around them. This program is designed to teach that safety does not end when the 8-hour bell rings. It must continue into their personal lives, families & communities.

Indirect & direct costs of injuries at specific profit margins are provided. By illustrating the cost of injuries and the dollars that can be saved by preventing them supervisors realize the importance of not only preventing injuries but also mitigating them with return to work programs, accident investigation, near miss reporting, etc.

The facilitator uses interactive presentation techniques through all the training to encourage positive effective communication between all levels of employees in addition to team building.

The following Operating Principals are rolled out:

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

Objectives:

• Learn how to determine the Accident Goal
• Learn the dynamics of a Team
• What is World Class?
• Team Needs
• Motivators vs. De-Motivators
• Employees work safe 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

Session One (2 Hours)

• Benchmarking and understanding the safety goal of Zero
• Create an emotional awareness and acceptance of what has and can happen before it happens (creating the mindset).
• Learn and discuss how the culture got where it is today at work and outside of work
• Learn and discuss cost of an accident
• Understanding workplace hazards

Session Two (2 Hours)

• Discuss how attendees have changed personally or professionally after first session
• Unsafe acts vs. behaviors
• Past experiences
• What is World Class?
• Defining a Team
• Team Needs
• Understanding our body parts and how they work
• Delivering the safety message
• Review safety-operating principles
• Roles & responsibilities
• Motivators vs. De-Motivators

Session Three (2 Hours)

• Discuss how they have changed personally or professionally after second session
• Communication process
• Incident reporting, investigation and root cause
• Near miss reporting
• Making the safety contact, one on one
• Job safety analysis
• Audits
• Vision
• Rewards
• Where do we start?
• Employees work safe because superiors & coworkers hold them accountable
• The impact of positive reinforcement - increased self-esteem, improved behavior, attitudes, productivity, moral, etc.
• Supervisors realize that they have control over workplace/home safety by becoming accountable to themselves
• Safety becomes a personal choice
• The challenges
• What it takes to be #1
• Understanding the Safety Goal
• Getting everyone's commitment

Upon completion of the Safety Leader Certificate, participants will:

Gain an understanding of the impact of a safe environment and understand how to actively empower and support their associates to think and act safely 24/7.