ProAct Safety services

Improvement efforts are consistently more successful if they begin from a known starting point. The purpose of an assessment is to determine that starting point, while exploring feasibility, identifying barriers, and determining optional paths forward. ProAct Safety has performed over 1,000 site assessments and has helped many organizations to develop customized perception surveys, interview strategies, and methods to analyze safety data to ground the perception findings. Measuring perceptions alone is an inadequate way to understand a culture. Let ProAct Safety perform a consultant-led assessment or help your organization to develop your own customized method for assessing your site or organizational safety culture. Let ProAct Safety perform a consultant-led assessment or help your organization to develop your own customized method for assessing your site or organizational safety culture.

Incentives and motivational programs cost organizations millions of dollars each year and often actually cause more problems than they solve. ProAct Safety can perform an analysis of your existing programs and processes and help you to determine what is working and what needs to be changed. A complete plan will be formulated to transform some or all of the elements of your program to carefully avoid common problems and to provide timely results to build momentum for change.

Transformational Behavioral Pareto Analysis: ProAct Safety has reviewed and analyzed millions of incidents and accidents for thousands of organizations throughout the world. Most of these organizations were seeking expert input into the behavioral preventability of their events, with the goal to determine which ones to focus their culture on to best prevent future events, and understand the elements that influence risk-taking in the organization. After a careful analysis of their data, the vital precautions were identified. Have you identified yours?

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.

Since 1984 Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) has proven to be an effective tool for the reduction of workplace accidents. While the business climate has changed dramatically since 1984, Behavior-Based Safety has changed little. Even a proven technology with documented results eventually must evolve or become obsolete. Lean Behavior-Based Safety (Lean BBS) is a modified implementation of Traditional Behavior-Based Safety that utilizes aspects of performance and quality systems to drastically reduce the typical internal resource requirements of a Behavior-Based Safety process. Lean Behavior-Based Safety focuses on leveraged use of resources. This leaner model is as easy to implement as the packaged programs and as powerful as the original versions of Behavior-Based Safety . Ask us if Lean Behavior-Based Safety is right for you.

Safety has suffered from a reliance on lagging indicators. For many years, organizations have simply measured their `failure rates` and the associated costs. These metrics have encouraged reactive management tactics that are limited in their effectiveness. They have also created a barrier to excellence -- as accidents decrease, accident data loses its statistical significance and no longer tells an organization accurately how to improve.

The fact that perceptions affect safety cultures is undeniable, yet the best intending organizations often pay little attention to perceptions and the conditioning affect they have on new employees or the company. Whether accurate or not, perceptions become culturally-norming beliefs. When these common beliefs are combined with unclear values, potentially negative attitudes, and hypercompetitive priorities, a dangerous mixture of influences is placed on individuals attempting to solve problems in day-to-day operations. The need to understand perceptions and what drives them is critical.

Are you contemplating how to begin your journey to safety excellence to drastically improve your safety performance and enhance your culture? Let ProAct Safety, the firm behind the best-selling book, STEPS to Safety Culture Excellence^SM support your efforts by helping you identify your starting point.