Safety Net(work)
Produced by Department of Administration Bureau of State Risk Management
December 2015
Volume 2, Number 12
In This Issue:
Produced by Department of Administration Bureau of State Risk Management
Is Your Real Goal Zero Injuries?
What’s Your Personality?
Safety Spotlight:
National Handwashing
Awareness Week
Five Minutes for
Safety:
Safe Toys & Gifts
Month
Quote of the
Month:
“When your team pursues
perfection you can achieve
excellence.”
Is Your Real Goal Zero Injuries?
EHS Today published an article titled, “Employee Engagement and Commitment: The
Super Bowl of Safety,” by author Bill Sims Jr. Bill proposed that your real goal is NOT
zero injuries. Why? For example, zero injuries was the goal on the Titanic and the
Macondo Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform which did not result in desired
outcomes. Bill suggests your real goal is something far higher: zero at-risk behaviors
from workers and management in an interdependent culture. Ultimately, when your team
pursues perfection you can achieve excellence of zero injuries.
How do you get people doing the right thing for safety, in the moment of choice when
you’re not watching them? Commitment. Millions of times a day, people modify their
behavior when the boss, the safety manager or the local police officer comes into view.
Atlantic Training recently shared a video in the link below emphasizing “You Can Be
Safe; You Can’t Rewind”:
-Bill Sims Jr.
http://www.atlantictraining.com/blog/canada-wide-winner-of-the-student-safety-videocontest/?utm_source=weeklyinsights131&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&goal=
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Workers Comp
Finally, the author suggests every company has three kinds of workers: non-compliant,
compliant and committed:
Claims
Claims
FY15 YTD
YTD
1,156
FY16 YTD
Lost Time
Lost Time
FY15 YTD
FY16 YTD
242
1,116
217
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Non-Compliant – “I will not follow your safety and quality rules, because I am
convinced the only way to get high production is to take risks and shortcuts.”
Compliant – “I will follow your safety and quality procedures, as long as
someone (a manager, a supervisor or a peer observer) is watching me. But when
that person leaves, I’ll take more risks and shortcuts.”
Committed – “I will follow the safety and quality procedures in the moment
of choice, when nobody is watching. This is who I am.”
The ideal culture is to have every employee committed to safety to prevent injuries. How
do we get here? Involvement. Industrial Safety & Hygiene News (ISHN), published an
article titled, “How to get your managers and employees involved in safety.” Several
dozen experts provided tips on what works, 50 ideas in all:
http://www.ishn.com/articles/83551-how-to-get-your-managers-and-employees-involved-in-safety
What’s Your Personality?
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In 1979, Don Lowry created a personality profiling system called True Colors. It was
originally created to categorize four basic learning styles using the colors blue, orange,
gold and green to identify strengths and challenges of core personality types.
Theoretically, everyone’s personality consists of a combination of all four colors, with
the dominant two colors representing the core of a person’s personality temperament.
In general:
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Green – personality types are independent thinkers
Gold – personality types are pragmatic planners
Orange – personality types are very action-oriented
Blue – personality types are very people-oriented
Essentially, True Colors is a way to understand the behaviors and motivations of others
relative to our own personalities to help mitigate potential conflict by learning to
recognize personality differences and characteristics.
What are your dominant colors? North America’s Reform Jewish Youth movement,
NFTY, published a fun team building True Colors Personality Quiz (CTRL click on
image shown below):
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