Creating a Positive Safety Culture and Outstanding Safety

Performance

Jim O’DellSafety Manager,

Kipper Tool Company

(C) Jim O'Dell 2013

Is your Safety something like this?

Background

• Safety Professional since 2002• Helped change the culture of two vastly different

companies • Both are award-winning and share World Class

figures• Safe downsize and eventual closure of previous

employers’ local location

• Compassionate for people

Metrics of each

• 2001: 4 REC (1 DART)• 2002: 6 REC (2 DART)• 2003 – 2007: 1 REC each year local (helped improve

North American region safety 87%)

• 2007: 19 REC (6 DART)• 2008: 26 REC (3 DART)• 2009: 3 REC (1 DART)• 2010 – 2012: 1 REC

Industry average: 6.2 REC

EMR below 1% three years running

Dates of last events: Aug 29, 2011 RECSept 15, 2009 DART

Common ground

Safety Culture…Engage!

• Inspect• Train• Coach• Ideas• Laugh• Listen• Home• Repeat

First steps

• Thorough inspection of facility• Talking directly with workers– Letting them know you are accessible

• Review the past; identify top three needs• Report to directors immediate needs

First steps

• Communication–More Communication

–More Communication!

• What type is key!• How it is presented is key!

• Have fun and be serious

Communications• Monday – Compliance based or significant safety

event regionally• Wednesday – Comical unsafe photos with

commentary• Thursday – Health and Wellness• Friday – ‘Darwin Award’ type along with

commentary

• Each brings with it a TAKE 2-ish message, and brings it back to what we do here, and quite often, to home

First steps continued

• New Hire Orientation – personally • Training– Select training dates monthly– Stick to schedule (make it accessible)– Know the audience

– Managers and/or 19 yr olds?

• Style matters– Interactive, high-energy, graphicgraphic at first– Always bring it back to home, always

First steps continued

• Track and champion improvements• Coaching employees vs. telling them– Positive sandwich– Why it matters personally to them– Have empathy though be firm

• Disciplinary Action

Significant impact events

• Safety Glasses requirement– Put on safety

• Cut Resistant Gloves– Why it is important to have fingers!

• Root Cause Analysis of each first aid / close callfirst aid / close call– Post findings and share with huddle meetings– To prevent future occurrence

• Emergency planning– Get home each and every day

• Track safe days• Celebrate first milestone– Invite family members,

partners, local CoC members , and your WC rep!

– Get prizes for FREE! – Put in local media

• Celebrate next milestones

Significant impact events

Significant impact events

Have FUN!

Hazard Communication / Globally Harmonized System

Training

Have FUN!

In the spirit of the O lympic G ames, we will

have a S afety O lympics A ugust 1st and 2nd if

needed. You will have to put on your thinking

caps as we ask questions from safety training

sessions over the past year.

Not as hard as J eopardy, though!

T o be a Kipper T ool S afety O lympian,

just answer a couple of questions and

demonstrate a safe work habit and you’ll

be ‘labeled’ as a safety O lympian while at

the same time, showing your spirit for

T eam U S A !

T raining requires thought and safe work practices!

U ntil then…T rain hard!

• Health Fairs at NO COST• Silly Socks for Safety (yes it works for adults, too)

• Costume days, tailgate parties, dragonboat• Random prizes, Jeopardy!, weird facts• Making fun (and giving) of yourself, too!

Have FUN!

• We are the spark though our actions• We must interact in fun ways• We set the tone

– ‘Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun’ - Colleen Barrett

– ‘I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be’. - Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)

Have FUN!

Free Resources

• Safety leaders at floor level• ‘I care about you’ cards• ‘Story-telling’ as part of training• ‘Meerkat’ safety (interdependence)

• More at-home safety and health messages

• Always coaching and reporting

Ongoing efforts

Share the good news200 days

750 days

Calendar year

1000 days

500 days

Question and Answer

Thank you for your time! I hope this was a valuable resource.

Jim O’Delljames.odell@kippertool.com

www.linkedin.com/in/jimodell44770-534-8707