South Texas Safety Action Plan

OSHA rates

Five T’s

Safety Action plan

I will discuss

Where we came from

OSHA recordable 7.2 in 1997

YTD in 2004 is 0.8

27% annual decline

Five T’s

Teach

Tools

Tracking

Teamwork

Treats or teeth

Teach

New hire orientation one week centralized

Cultural indoctrination Quarterly training topic focus STOP Walk the talk

Tools

PPE Check 6 Audits Safety Action Plan STOP Go Card

Tracking

Leading indicators Monthly Region & districtParticipationAttendanceJob AuditsCultureLeadership

Safety action plan audited quarterly STOP observations OSHA, vehicles rates

Teamwork

Brother’s keeper

All of us are smarter than anyone of us

How important is safety? How

important is your job?

Teeth or Treats

Individual Awards

Team rewardsWalMart gift certificates for accident free

month. Cumulative.

Must have STOP card

Individual discipline for preventable accident

South TexasFive T's

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Four T's introduced.

Introduced the fifth T, i.e., Teeth

Trend Line

Evidence that punishment does not suppress reporting

Safety Action Plan

Evolved over five years

Long term plan

Focus on how not what

Continually updated

Safety Action Plan

Guiding principles

Multiple causality

True root cause determination

Real corrective action

Walk the talk

Safety Action Plan Sections

Safety Leadership and accountability APT - district and region - monthly Communication Training and Education Health Hazard identification Leading indictors

Audits

High quality

Numerical objectives for all

Quality objectives

Score

Comments by me

South Texas Region Leading Indicators 2004

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May

Participation Attendance Job Audits Culture Leadership

Culture and participation are two metrics should be very easy to achieve greater than 95%. The problem is those accountable for ensuring these activities occur do not feel they are accountable. This deterioration does not bode well for our continued safety excellence. I will review each districts chart when I am in the districts.

Benefits of Lower OSHA rate

Not hurting employees Less medical cost More productive employees Less time investigating More time preventing Customer applause