Listen for a quick dose of inspiration and education to help improve the safety culture of your business. A respected leader in benchmarking the best-in-practice Behavioral Safety programs, Dr. Timothy Ludwig has over 30 years experience engaging in foundational research in Behavioral Science. Connect with him to achieve your Safety Culture Change.
I had been warmly welcomed to South Africa. We were there to work with a mining construction company who wanted to solve their safety challenge. The immensity of this challenge hit us on our day off while we dealt with our jet lag.
We took a tour of Soweto outside of Johannesburg. Soweto is where a student uprising and the deadly crackdown by the white police enraged the world and marked the beginning of the end of Apartheid. I recalled wearing black and white armbands in college protesting Apartheid. But when I found myself face-to-face with the actual peoples, places, and cultures of South Africa, I knew the time had come to go beyond a youthful ideal.
Listen to find out what I learned during my time in South Africa. Essentially, it's most important to change yourself before you're ever able to begin helping others.
6 May 2020
T.H.A.N.K.S. for protecting me: Reinforcing mask use from behind the mask
Now is the time to put all our behavioral skills to work. There are critical life-saving behaviors that we can all do to protect ourselves (e.g., hand washing) and to exponentially protect others. Indeed, putting on face masks keep infected people, many of whom are unaware and exhibit little symptoms, from transmitting the virus to others. In real ways, we are protecting our colleagues by wearing masks.
But how can we utilize behavioral science best practices to ensure mask wearing compliance in the work place? Enter the T.H.A.N.K.S. Conversation. Based in behavioral science, it utilizes the practical utility of the simple conversation to reinforce difficult behaviors and shape them to fluency over time.
Listen to Dr. Ludwig walk us through a step-by-step example of how one of these behavior-changing conversations might play out.
20 Apr 2020
Heroes Among Us
People are active. They don’t want to sit back and be passive. In fact, these particular set of heroes want to be ACTIVE in the face of our nation’s crisis. They need to be told what to DO, not what to NOT-do. This professional workforce can actively engage in many ways to positively impact their own health and the safety of the region’s food supply. Empower the workforce to pinpoint the active behaviors they can all engage in.
If you have questions or comments about this or other episodes, email Dr. Ludwig at TimLudwig@safety-doc.com
15 Mar 2020
Hand Washing goes Viral! Beating the odds together
What does our global attention to hand washing during pandemics teach us
about worker compliance around life-critical and other behaviors required
for safety?
13 Feb 2020
Does Punishment Work? Absolutely but Probably Not
In order for a consequence like punishment to be effective, we must come in contact with the consequence. Using threats in an attempt to avoid danger or damage are simply idle threats that can be a dysfunctional practice that kills your safety culture.
29 Jan 2020
T.H.A.N.K.S. for the Feedback
In order for a consequence like punishment to be effective, we must come in contact with the consequence. Using threats in an attempt to avoid danger or damage are simply idle threats that can be a dysfunctional practice that kills your safety culture.
14 Jan 2020
Align for the Front Line
By the time workers find themselves in a position to take risks, we have already lost. There were a whole host of behaviors, done by a host of other people, unaware they have participated in perfectly creating the conditions for workers to take risks. We need to discover the interlocking behaviors that lead to risk taking among Front Line Workers.
19 Dec 2019
Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Safe Holiday
Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the shop
Eight elves were busy working
Even Snap, Crackle, and Pop
1 Sept 2019
Behavior is Neutral
Get this in your head; tattoo it on the back of your hand to remind you.
Behavior is neutral. This simple mantra will set your safety program free
of the dysfunctions that kill your safety culture.
1 Jul 2019
For those about to Rock: We Salute Caring
It’s a tricky thing to grow, this safety culture. It’s more than just an
engineered process. Luckily we have our families to learn from.
1 Apr 2019
Talk the Talk! Your Safety Culture needs a Shave.
WHO HAS BEEN IN A TRAINING CLASS where some consultant is teaching you
about “Culture”? But, in reality, deep down inside where these things are
hidden, you admit to yourself that you really, really don’t know what this
term really means.
7 Jan 2019
Does your Safety Culture have Enough Rebar?
Your safety management systems act like the structure of a building aimed
at reducing risk. These systems can fail due to lack of participation.
They needed more rebar. Ask yourself: What behaviors do you need to
build into your safety processes? What must you reinforce?
1 Nov 2018
It's Not My Car
The whole program is run by the safety department and few anointed safety
enthusiasts who do the observations or supervisors, who have observations
cards to complete on top of mounds of other paperwork. Employee involvement
is nonexistent. This may seem the most reliable way to do behavioral
safety, but it’s creating an undesirable effect inside of the operation.
3 Sept 2018
Below Zero
Your annual injury rate is a static number. It can define your safety
program performance but injury rates can seem random. It’s frustrating
working so hard to reduce that rate only to have it bounce around
arbitrarily.
12 Jul 2018
I Learned Safety from my Kidz
When the costs outweigh the benefits, the safety-related behavior does not
happen.
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