tools for sustaining safety
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Once you've changed the safety culture and picked the low hanging fruit, you need tools that help you to sustain the gains you've made..TRANSCRIPT
Tools For Sustaining Safety
Phil La Duke
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Introduction
• Housekeeping• Introductions
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Uses For Safety Tools
•Process Monitoring•Culture Change
Reinforcement•Structure and Infrastructure•Training and Reference•Process Integration
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Process Monitoring Tools
•Scorecards•Dashboards•Reports
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Sample Score Card
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Considerations
Advantages• Provides “at a
glance” status for safety
• Red-Yellow-Green coding fits well with QOS or Lean Manufacturing
• Provides a good executive overview
Limitations• Does not identify
root causes
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Sample Dashboard
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Considerations
Advantages:• Provides real-time
data• Gives a macro-
level view of the state of safety
Limitations:• Data without
interpretation and action is useless
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Sample Report
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Considerations
Advantages:• Creates visual
representations of the process
• Can be used to track progress
• Can be used to monitor compliance and process slippage
• Easy to use
Limitations:• Are only as good as
the person interpreting them
• Need to be interpreted to change data into information
• Must be part of a robust safety infrastructure
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Change Reinforcement Tools
• HICCAT• Reports• Mobile Devices• Audit Tools
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HICCAT
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Considerations
Advantages:• Provides ability to identify
hazards• Can be integrated into
production monitoring software to reduce or eliminate lockout violations
• Documents hazard containment
• Provides reports• Provides workflow and email • Allows for data trending• Allows for forced
accountability• Can be used by multiple users
and locations simultaneously
Limitations:• Proprietary software
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Sample Reports
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Considerations
Advantages:• Identifies
noncompliance• Can be used to track
progress• Ensures containments
remain viable• Easy to use
Limitations:• Requires an
infrastructure for correction
• Can be difficult to generate using home-made databases
• Useless without appropriate action
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Mobile Devices
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Considerations
Advantages:• Allows for hazard data
collection at the point of occurrence
• Increases hazards found• Improves hazard data
integrity• Allows for photos of
hazards• Leverages 802.11 wireless • Easy to use
Limitations:• Requires a mobile device • Requires wireless coverage
location wide• Requires HICCAT
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Audit Tools
• Software• Hardware• Mobile Devices• Third-party Support
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Considerations
Advantages:• Reduces the time required
to audit a facility • Can integrate with HICCAT
or other software to document findings
• Can provide fresh perspective on hazards
• Can be used to document both behavioral and process hazards
Limitations:• Requires proprietary
software• Requires hardware
purchase or lease
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Structure and Infrastructure Tools
•HICCAT•Personal Security•RFID tagging•Personal Collaboration Platform
•Unified Communication
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HICCAT
Advantages:• Provides reports
necessary to building and maintaining a data infrastructure
• Allows Trend Analysis• Can be used to
support TPM, 5S and other production, materials, or quality initiatives
Limitations:• Should not be
integrated into WOMS• Should not be used to
track injury data
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Physical Security
• System for monitoring the workplace• Uses digital technology to activate
cameras in response to worker distress calls
• Uses RFID and similar technology to automatically detect workers who have fallen
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Considerations
Advantages:• Allows for tracking worker
locations for quicker emergency response
• Verifies worker evacuation in emergency
• Allows workers to call for help if they are injured or attacked
• Allows injuries to be videotaped for unprecedented injury investigation
• Could be used for untainted behavior observations
• Improves emergency response time
Limitations:• May be resisted by workers as
intrusive of their privacy• Far less effective if used for
disciplinary purposes• Proprietary system• May require hardware
purchases
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RFID tagging
• Installs low cost, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags on hazards, equipment, and vehicles
• Can be placed on the location where injuries occurred
• Can be used together to gather unobservable hazards
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Considerations
Advantages:• Can be used to document
vehicle safety hazards (for example unsafe intersections)
• Allows for the creation of virtual area maps that can be used in hazard trend analysis and departmental risk assessment
• May be used in conjunction with HICCAT to automatically capture the location of a hazard
• Can be integrated into dashboards or scoreboards
Limitations:• Requires purchase of RFID
tags• May require additional
software
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Professional Collaboration Platform
• Uses Wiki-style technology to allow multiple professionals to work on the same documents simultaneously
• Allows multiple authors• Encourages functional debate on
safety topics• Uses fuzzy logic and gooey interfaces
to make topic searches very easy
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Considerations
Advantages:• Allows for the development
of a “tribal knowledge” for safety
• Allows other locations to critique incident investigation
• Allows for best practice sharing
• Makes it easy to find topics by key-word searches
• Creates an environment of collaborative safety improvements
• Can be used to quickly disseminate safety bulletins
• Can be used to create a tool-box talk library
Limitations:• Requires the purchase of
proprietary software• Use needs to be hardwired
into the location’s safety culture
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Unified Communication
A method for combining:• Email• Voicemail• Wireless• Phone• Mobile Phone• Mobile Devices and• Radios into a single source
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Considerations
Advantages:• Allows for single point
communication• Reduces the number of
devices required • Provides greater
flexibility and mobility • Workers can spend less
time in offices or cubicles and more time on the shop or warehouse floor
Limitations:• Requires hardware
purchase
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Training and Reference Tools
• Electronic Performance Support Tools• Safety Kiosks w/embedded Safety
LMS• OSHA Accepted On-Line Safety
Training
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Electronic Performance Support Tools
http://winunix/SafetyImpactLG
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Considerations
Advantages:• Can be used as a job aid• Allows instant access to
reference materials usually found only in manuals
• Can be used to create JSA or SWIs
• Provides imbedded training on the safest way to operate equipment
• Provides reverence for infrequently performed tasks
Limitations:• Requires third-party to
create
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Safety Kiosks w/ embedded Safety LMS
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Considerations
Advantages:• Provides a closed portal to web
content• Provides standardization of
training• Can be used to access online
subscription services (JSA Builder, MSDS Online, etc.)
• Allows for instantaneous software upgrades and improvements.
• Fosters Continuing Education• Student information, courses, and
results can be centrally accessed at any kiosk
• Reporting capabilities that allow supervisors to quickly ascertain who has been trained and is qualified on a given job
• Training can be updated and presented quickly and easily
Limitations:• Requires hardware purchase
or lease• Dedicated space is required
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OSHA Accepted On-Line Safety Training
https://secure2.360training.com/vu3/index.cfm?event=home&cid=2829
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Considerations
Advantages:• Workers can complete
training in small groups• Minimizes disruption of
production• Low cost• Does not require a proctor• Increases compliance with
OSHA training requirements
• Can be badged to a company’s specific look and feel
• Can be integrated into a company’s intranet
Limitations:• Requires web access• Not all training is accepted
by OSHA as meeting its requirements
• Cannot be customized and still be accepted by OSHA
• Course titles are limited
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Process Integration Tools
• Safety Certifications• Safety Training• Safety Kiosks
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Safety Certifications
• Curriculum and courses are developed for each customer
• The certification requirements are set by the customer and the certification program can be a large or as small as the customer desires
• Participants follow different training tracks specific to their division
• Courses are conducted in a campus setting• Certifications can be maintained through
web-based CEU courses
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Considerations
Advantages:• Ensures workers have
mastered all safety skills required by the organization
• Ensures safety professionals are kept current on emerging safety topics
• Can be tailored to suit the needs of the organization
• Can include safety support skills (like coaching and leadership)
• Employs mixed instructional and delivery methods
• Provides an opportunity for safety professionals to meet and interact
• Frequency and participants are determined by the organization
Limitations :• Requires instructional design
to develop curricula• Requires training
infrastructure
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Safety Training
• Awareness Training • Requisite Skills Training• Regulatory Training• Process Training• Support Skills Training
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Conclusion
• There is a real danger of a loss of momentum and motivation to maintain safety improvements when the consultants leave
• Technology is rapidly changing and emergent technology can greatly aid in sustaining culture change and safety improvement
• It’s often possible to use technology that you already own to sustain safety improvements
• Even the most dedicated leader needs tools to help sustain safety improvements
Thank You!This presentation is
available at www.safety-impact.com.