Purpose of Training

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Purpose of Training

• Establishing Goals

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Objectives of Training

• Give you guidelines on methods to establish
  goals, in general and specific, for Safety
  programs.

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Establishing Goals

• The most successful people, business and sports,
  attribute goal setting as one of the secrets to
  their success.

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Why establish a goal?

• It creates constancy of purpose (W. Edward
  Deming).
• It is the map for planning today and for the
  future.
• It allows you to make adjustments during the
  journey to success.

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The Right Goal and Its Achievement

• Know your environment.
  
• It must be your goal.
  
• Your goal must be specific and vivid.
• Tell some one what your goal is.
• Use this person as an advisor.
• It must be strenuous but not impossible

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Goal Setting is an art not a science.

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Too easy

• Feel Good Syndrome -
• You make your goal but you are not a winner.
• You will have the same problems next year.

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Too difficult

• Doomed to Fail Syndrome -
• Your Failure is a self-fulfilling prophesy. I
  will fail no matter how hard I try.
• If I do try, I will soon be depressed due to
  insurmountable challenge.

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Breakdown your goal into a series of smaller goals

• How do you eat an elephant?
• Too many people feel so good with the
  achievements of the small goals, they forget the
  larger goal, never achieve the overall goal and
  thus fail.
• Never lose sight of overall goal. Review it at
  set periods (end of smaller goals
  accomplishment).
• Use a time table for these small goals.

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Potential Pitfalls

• Feel Good Syndrome over the achievement of step
  goals and never achieve overall goal.
• Never loose sight of your overall goal.
• Review the Overall goal at set periods.

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Make adjustments

• If you have made a mistake in your original goal,
  change course or adjust your goal.
• Especially when you are first trying to establish
  your goal.
• Tell the person you told your goal to about the
  change and why.
• Use their advice.

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At the end, do a Post Mortem.

• Definition review of a completed event.
• This act is the beginning of the next goal
  setting.
• New goals need to build upon past
  accomplishments and failures.

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Goal Setting is a dynamic, ongoing process.

• The last step in one goal setting process is the
  first step in the next goal setting process.

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Selecting Safety Goals
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Frequency is the driver of claim dollars

• Therefore, your goals should concentrate on
  reducing the number of claims. If you reduce the
  number, the dollars will follow.

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Concentrate on the cause of loss

• Statistically, 80 of your claims are caused by
  20 of a type of occurrence (i.e. slip and fall)
  or a certain location. You are better off working
  with one type of claim or one location rather
  than trying to be all encompassing. Use your CRS
  for this determination.

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Do not take the easy way out.

• The easy way may look successful but will lead to
  zero results.
• It maybe easy to fix a low frequency occurrence,
  and look good in the win column, but the dollar
  reduction of claims will be negligible.
• In the end you are better off achieving 95 of a
  difficult goal (i.e. high frequency occurrence)
  than 110 of a easy (i.e. low frequency
  occurrence).
• Failure is relative to total outcome.

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Summary of Safety Goals

• Frequency is the driver of claim dollars.
• Concentrate on the cause of loss(es) which cause
  the majority of your claims.
• Do not take the easy way out.

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Conclusion

• Longest journey starts with the first step.