Refocus Your Safety Effort to Avoid Serious Injuries and Fatalities
Duration : 90 Minutes
This course, has been approved for 1.5 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®).
James Loud,
Mr. Loud is a safety consultant over 40 years of safety and management experience includes 15 years with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) where he served as the supervisor of Safety and Loss Control for a large commercial nuclear facility and later as manager of the corporate nuclear safety oversight body for all three of Read more
We are not doing a good job of protecting our workers from serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs). The Bureau of Labor Statistics just published its fatality statistics for 2019 and the results should concern us all. Fatalities in 2019 jumped to 5333, the highest figure since 2007 and the fifth time in the last six years that we have seen an increase in fatalities. Meanwhile, our total reportable incident rate (TRIR) stands at record lows. What’s up!
As opposed to TRIR figures which are highly susceptible to pencil whipping, fatality data is hard to fudge. Still, the data does imply that we are doing a better job of controlling non-serious incidents than with more serious incidents and fatalities. The principal cause is our fixation on addressing minor risk at the expense of the more serious as well as our focus on symptoms, such as unsafe actions and conditions, rather than the systems that spawn them.
Course Objectives:
• Learn how safety tradition is impeding progress on SIF reduction.
• Understand the difference between symptoms of safety problems such as “unsafe acts” and “unsafe conditions” and genuine root causes.
• Learn the importance of how safety systems and organizational culture shape every aspect of safety performance, especially regarding prevention of SIFs.
• Understand how our efforts to modify worker behavior have failed to address fundamental SIF causation.
• Develop a strategy that addresses the SIF problem.
Why Should You Attend:
We are killing and maiming our workers at an unacceptable rate. Anyone with responsibilities for protecting the workforce should want to learn how to reduce their potential for experiencing SIFS.
Course Outline:
• How organizations that thought they were “safe” have repeatedly set themselves up for disastrous incidents.
• The disconnect between Total Recordable Incident Rates (TRIR) and SIFs.
• How our focus on ever lower incident rates can set us up for failure.
• How we overspend our finite safety resources chasing trivia.
• The difference between symptoms such as “unsafe acts”
and “unsafe conditions” and true root causes and why it matters in SIF reduction.
• The importance of safety systems and systems thinking to SIF reduction.
• Some suggestions for reducing our exposure to SIFs.
What You Get:
• All slides and graphics from the presentation.
• Links to additional information.
• Live Q&A with the session presenter.
• Opportunity for follow-up with the presenter via e-mail.
Who Will Benefit:
• Safety and Health professionals
• Line management
• First line supervisors
• Employee Safety Committee members and union representatives.
Please reach us at 1-888-844-8963 for any further assistance or if you wish to register
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