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Workshop 1: Behavioral Safety Accreditation: What it is and How it Sustains Outstanding Safety Performance

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Sustaining safe performance and effective BBS programs are major challenges. CCBS Behavioral Safety Accreditation can help you meet that challenge.

CCBS accreditation recognizes your outstanding safety performance and tells the world about what your company has done. For your employees it becomes a source of pride and the valuable intangible reinforcers that sustain safe performance.

This workshop will describe the value of CCBS accreditation to employees and other stakeholders, including customers. We will review accreditation methods and standards, and show data on the behavioral safety practices among companies who are accredited. You will have opportunities to discuss behavioral safety programs in your company and learn how to assess the readiness of your programs for accreditation. We will discuss case examples of companies, such as the Acetate Fibers Division of Eastman Chemical, that have sustained long term success in their BBS programs.

You may wish to bring data on safety programs and performance, such as graphs of OSHA recordables over recent years. Dwight, Tim and Mark will give you recommendations and guidance to help your company plan and prepare for an accreditation site visit. [Read more...]

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Workshop 2: Using the PIC/NIC Analysis for Understanding At-Risk Behavior

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This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the various uses of the PIC/NIC analysis. The first part of the workshop will be a primer in the science of behavior analysis. Next, the PIC/NIC analysis will be introduced as a tool to understand safe and at-risk behaviors at all levels of the organization, including use during accident investigations.

After explanation and examples, participants will work in groups to complete a PIC/NIC analysis in order to better learn how to use this powerful tool. The last portion of the workshop will involve discussion about designing strategies for change based on information gathered using the PIC/NIC.

The importance of addressing all sources of consequences (management, peers, organizational systems, etc) will be discussed. [Read more...]

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Workshop 3: Introduction to Behavioral Safety

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What is behavioral safety and what does it mean to an organization? If you are just embarking upon or are currently in the initial stages of this type of safety process, you will learn the basic elements of behavioral safety and the steps involved in its implementation. This informative session will answer questions such as:

1) How does behavioral safety differ from traditional safety programs?
2) What comprises a behavioral safety program?
3) How does a company implement a behavioral safety program?
4) What role does management play?
5) How can the observation process best be established? [Read more...]

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Workshop 4: 10 Years of BBS Success Stories and How it was Done

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(This Workshop is also offered in the afternoon.)

This unique team of behavioral science experts, led by popular BSN keynote speaker, Dr. John Austin, will reveal their secrets of success in improving business and safety.  This workshop will be an engaging, interesting, informative, and enjoyable experience.  The team will be using all of the latest in-class teaching technology and will share the data on how this technology has dramatically improved knowledge transfer.  You will carry out the simple BMT Federation safety continuum questionnaire, which will help you define particular opportunities for improvement in your safety culture.

In this workshop you will learn:

  • How to carry out a simple health check on your own safety process & culture
  • How to analyze your current safety leadership
  • How to increase the likelihood of getting honest feedback
  • How to create and measure effective lead indicators
  • How to remove 20% of your paperwork [Read more...]
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Workshop 5: Assessing Safety Culture; How to Know What You May Not Know

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This session will outline the key characteristics necessary for a successful behavior-based safety (BBS) process and have some fun doing it. We will understand why BBS works by looking at its underlying psychological, cultural, and business principles. We’ll look at why we don’t “blame the worker” and how to change the environment through observation and feedback.

We’ll see how employees take ownership over their own safety through employee-based implementation teams and talk about a change to a Total Safety Culture. Finally, we’ll discuss how to maximize Actively Caring through communication skills, that maximize usefulness and acceptance of feedback, and through the use of data to reinforce the gift that employees give each other and your company through their participation. [Read more...]

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Workshop 6: Effective Safety Leadership

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The role of management in safety has been poorly defined. It is most typically described in vague terms such as “making safety a priority”, or “creating a safety culture”.  But what does that mean?

What should a manager do today and tomorrow to ensure a safe work environment? What can a manager do to help create a culture that truly embraces safety? After a very quick review of behavioral science, this workshop will outline four general ways that leaders (supervisors, managers and executives) can have a positive impact on safety.

Examples of specific leader behaviors will be provided. In addition, exercises throughout the workshop will allow participants to apply the concepts to their own organizations. This workshop is designed for (1) those in leadership positions, (2) those who are coaching leaders to better support safety, and (3) frontline employees who are trying to influence safety leaders. [Read more...]

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Workshop 7: Advanced Topics in Behavioral Safety

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The success of your Behavioral Safety process depends on taking advantage of the full power of behavioral technology. Some companies actually only use observation without meaningful feedback. Most stop with observation and feedback. Few make full use of the information generated by the observation and feedback process to identify and improve the factors that influence safe behavior. Attend this intensive workshop if you want to learn how to effectively analyze the data your process can produce and to use the power of behavior analysis to target the most important influences on safe behavior. Do not attend this workshop if you are satisfied with employees reminding employees to, “Work safe”. [Read more...]

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Workshop 8: Beyond the Plateau – A Systems Approach to Continuous Improvement

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No productive activity is possible without systems that provide what is needed to support essential behaviors. Just as these systems continuously evolve in response to the changing needs of organizations that rely on them, they are in constant need of examination and adjustment. Without this, companies fall prey to process failures that produce harmful incidents, waste, and product defects.

This workshop will explore methods for examining systems that identify deliberate change needed to reduce process failures. Attendees will get practical ideas for recognizing when current process improvement efforts are approaching a plateau of effectiveness and ways to engage people closest to the opportunities in making them reality. This will truly be a working workshop, rich with examples, practical applications and experience-specific takeaways.

Participants will be immersed in the challenging question, “Which is most sustainable: changing individual behavior, or shaping the systems that drive or support that behavior?” Workshop applications will stretch beyond safety and, where possible, tie in with Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, and other process improvement processes that depend on sustainable behavior change for success. Target Audience:

  • Companies that are looking for new ways to gauge the effectiveness of their safety process,
  • Companies that have experienced difficulty establishing effective continuous improvement strategies,
  • Companies that want to know more about relationships between deliberate change and discernable effect,
  • Companies that want to be more effective in demonstrating value in behavioral safety processes,
  • Anyone currently involved in a BBS installation. [Read more...]
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Workshop 9: 10 Years of BBS Success Stories and How it was Done

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(This Workshop is also offered in the morning.)

This unique team of behavioral science experts, led by popular BSN keynote speaker, Dr. John Austin, will reveal their secrets of success in improving business and safety. This workshop will be an engaging, interesting, informative, and enjoyable experience. The team will be using all of the latest in-class teaching technology and will share the data on how this technology has dramatically improved knowledge transfer. You will carry out the simple BMT Federation safety continuum questionnaire, which will help you define particular opportunities for improvement in your safety culture.

In this workshop you will learn:

  • How to carry out a simple health check on your own safety process & culture
  • How to analyze your current safety leadership
  • How to increase the likelihood of getting honest feedback
  • How to create and measure effective lead indicators
  • How to remove 20% of your paperwork [Read more...]
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