Front Line Supervisors Role in Safety Creating the Want

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"Front Line Supervisors Role in Safety - Creating
the Want"

• Jim Lehrke
• President,
• Safety Connections, Inc.
• 920-457-4866

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Welcome!
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Goals
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What is a Safety Team ?
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• What is the Cost of Safety ?

• For every dollar spent on accident prevention,
  four to six dollars are saved in direct and
  indirect accident costs
• Source WISCon Consultation

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Our Definition of Safety

• Zero Tolerance for Unsafe Acts
• Thinking safety 24/7
• Accountability
• Motivation vs. De-motivation
• Compliance
• Measuring results
• Proactive vs. Reactive
• Behaviors vs. Conditions
• Root Cause
• Establish Best Practices for Safety

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The Focus
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Unsafe Acts
The Accident Pyramid
Near Miss
Severe Injury
Minor Injury
Fatality

• The result of any
• Unsafe behavior is a near
• miss, injury, or fatality

Results
Activities (Behavior)

• Unsafe behavior is almost always the cause of
  injury

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Measurement

• Activities (positive safety elements)
• Results (IR, , of corrections)
• Benchmarks(EMF, industry IR)
• Allocations
• What gets measured gets improved

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SURVEYS
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Never leave well enough alonebecause the future
is too important to let happen by itself.
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• Depending upon
• where you are
• and
• where you want to go
• will depend upon your commitment.

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Benchmark Past Record Vs. SIC or NAICS
CODE
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What is WORLD CLASS and What does it take
to get there? DO YOU TO BE WORLD CLASS ?
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World Class

• Best Practices
• Dependable
• More Than Minimum
• Meeting Commitments
• Innovative
• The Best At What You Do
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World ClassBelieveATough RightDecision
IsHarder Than AnEasy WrongDecisionGill Byrd,
Green Bay Packers
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Creating The Structure

• Purpose
• Trust
• Focus on the common good of all
• Cooperation
• Team include hiring
• Fun
• Audits
• Recommends

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• DELIVERING A MESSAGE !
• Use Statistics
• Examples
• Pictures
• Worst That Could Happen
• Supporting Materials
• Visuals
• Be Enthusiastic

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DISCIPLINE Friendly Reminder I have no right
to deprive anyone else of the challenge to meet
his/her own responsibility.
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HIRINGWhat Do You Ask?Who Do You Involve?
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Motivators
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How Do We Communicate???
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Bulletin Boards Tool Box Meetings Newsletters Tra
ining ETC.
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Incident Review Root Cause
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NEAR MISS REPORTING
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WHY SAFETY AUDITS?
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The Challenge

• Look in the Mirror Ask
• Where are You?

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Challenges

• DullEnthusiastic
• Just another day.Appreciates Life
• Blames Others....Accepts Responsibility
• Follows...Leads
• Receive...Gives
• Mandatory..Choices

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SUMMARY
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Always RememberInvolveEveryMind
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Questions?????????
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