Under the Hard Hat

On today's podcast we review the EMR Model (Express, Model, Reinforce), what leaders can do to Express, Model and Reinforce safety in the field.  

We also have some Safety Conversation Starters for leaders:

• How did you plan your work for today?

On todays podcast Kristin Heizman joins me to discuss Building Momentum - Leadership Influence in Safety.

We discuss why this topic is important and what we can do to create influence in safety across the organization.

We also discus the "EMR Model" which stands for Express, Model and Reinforce.

Today Josh Cook and Mike Goodman join me to discuss how they got into Safety as a career and other things that make them tick.

Thanks for listening and be safe!

Hearing protection and hearing conservation.

OSHA states hearing protection is needed at 85 decibels over an eight hour time weighted average.  There are some free apps available to measure sound on your phone.

Josh Cook and Mike Goodman joined me today.

Thanks for listening and be safe!

Welcome to Fire Prevention Week!  Today we discuss the four components that make up a fire. 

1. Heat

If you remove one of these components, the fire is extinguished. 

Fire prevention at its most basic level is keeping fuel sources and ignition sources separate.  

Thanks for listening and be safe!

Today we attempt to answer the question, "What is Safety?"

Essentially, safety is an outcome.  Outcomes must be planned for, whether daily on the job site or quarterly on the business plan.  

On todays podcast we discuss the 5th and final principle of human performance, "How leaders respond to failure matters."  We learned in previous weeks toolbox talks that people make mistakes and blame fixes nothing.  As leaders, we have a choice when failure occurs.  We can either blame and punish or learn and improve.  How you respond when failure occurs has a ripple effect on the entire team.  

Thanks for listening and be safe!

We continue our discussion of Human and Operations Performance with a discussion about how context drives the behaviors of the worker.  Best example of this is you wouldn't scream like you do at a football game in a church service.  All job sites are different and behaviors on each type of job sites are different.  To that end, all General Contractors and Owners are different and have the most influence in setting the tone and driving behaviors on the job site.

Thank you for listening!  Be Safe!

Welcome back from the Labor Day Holiday!  We continue our discussion of Human Performance with Principle #3 Learning and Improvement are vital; Learning is deliberate. 

Organizations have two choices when responding to failure;

1. Learn and improve

We discussed last week that blame fixes nothing and offers little to nothing to operations.  So really, the best thing we can do is learn and improve.  Learning is an operational choice toward improvement.  

This also ties into the "Safety Differently" concept that "Workers are not the problem to fix.  Workers are the problem solvers."  

Thank you for listening and be safe!

Today we discuss the second HOP principle, "Blame Fixes Nothing."  Emotionally, blame fixates on who is at fault, but not what.  Blame is an emotional response though and does little to improve the operation.  Blame makes error a choice in retrospect, and we learned last week that error is not a choice.

Blame is the opposite of encouragement and deterrence by blaming is not effective.  

As leaders, our response to when errors occur and incidents happen matters.  Blaming the individual feels good in the moment, but does little else.  When an error occurs, we must focus on what went wrong in the process of doing the task or the work.

Thanks for listening and be safe!