Improvements in safety performance have undergone three significant evolutionary waves over the past 40 years: Engineering, Process and Behavior. The missing ingredient to world class safety performance is a Sustainable Safety Culture. The REACH Group gets you there.
Safety Performance has long eluded leaders who chase KPI events we all hope will never materialize. Even worse, some teams resort to “ticking the box” or “going through the motions”. The answer to safety performance is in culture because culture is sustainable, it stays when personnel change out.
Twenty years ago, the focus was on engineering out hazards and awkward positions. The result was an amazing reduction in safety related incidents across the industry. But eventually, improvements in safety performance leveled out. Next, teams improved processes to get a significant improvement. Once again we saw improvements but sustainability became an issue with turnover of people. Then Safety-Based Behavioral Programs were introduced. These programs were very successful and are still an integral part of any successful safety strategy. Today some teams are just now introducing them, while others are mature or even stale.
Culture is defined as an organization’s or group’s shared beliefs, values, processes and behaviors. Culture is internalized. Safely Achieving the Technical Limit® explores the processes, behaviors and culture of your organization to build world class safety performance.
When behaviors reach an interdependent level then individuals take accountability not only for themselves but for others. Accountability becomes a duty. Everyone looks after each other to ensure they are safe.
Safely Achieving the Technical Limit® addresses 6 Key Success Factors to ensure you have a sustainable culture: Leadership, Management Systems, Personal Accountability, Communications, People Development and Engagement.
Imagine if the wheel on your car looked like this! How smooth would the ride be? Your safety culture is the same. You need all 6 Key Success Factors to score at an interdependent level if you plan to have a successful safety performance culture.
The REACH Group has combined the principles of the Technical Limit with proven safety techniques to achieve and sustain world-class safety performance. Our Safely Achieving the Technical Limit® implementation service is for operational and safety leaders worldwide who recognize they are accountable for safety performance.
An Assessment is the first step to determine safety culture in two very different perspectives: Process and Behavior. Process tells us to what extent the systems, tools and structure are in place, while behavior illuminates how well we use them. Your organization is assessed against 6 key safety elements and ranked to three developmental levels: dependent, independent and interdependent. Based on the results, a tailored implementation plan is then customized to your needs and developmental levels. We then help you specify goals, objectives and enroll your team. Your team is now set up to win!
To ensure there is ownership throughout the organization, a Safety Culture Workshop is held with all of the crews, service providers and office staff to challenge the existing safety culture and identify new and innovative methods to make a step change in safety performance. Tapping into the hundreds of years of experience within your team, we identify opportunities to move the organization from dependency to independency to interdependency. Break out groups brainstorm the ideal safety culture for their team with specific recommendations on what they need to do differently to achieve it. A comprehensive workbook captures the opportunities that will enhance the culture. Together we prioritize and assign the actions that will bring about change.
The heart of the Safely Achieving the Technical Limit® process is the implementation phase. Safety Performance Coaches work with your team on site and are supported by REACH Senior Managers. Your customized implementation plan comes to life using PLAN – DO – MEASURE – LEARN. By PLANNING for success we can effectively DO the work safely. MEASURING performance allows us the basis to ask pin point questions to LEARN and improve the next PLAN. Over time, your team works towards the interdependency in all 6 Safety Key Success Factors.
Sustainability doesn’t just happen! Ensuring that the process and behaviors stay within your organization is achieved through the development of a sustainability plan and continued management commitment. Periodic Health Checks are performed to assess compliance with the principles of the process. Quarterly Performance Reviews are held with the management team to ensure we are achieving the long term project objective: An interdependent safety performance culture!
REACH Safety Performance Coaches work with your team to obtain a sustainable interdependent safety culture.
The results from hundreds of Technical Limit implementations support the conclusion that great operational performance and great safety performance go hand in hand. The same Technical Limit skills of effective planning, thorough execution, measuring performance and learning, apply equally to safety and operations.
Yet, the improved safety performance we’ve observed to date has been achieved primarily as a byproduct of focusing on operations. Safely Achieving the Technical Limit® takes the approach of applying proven business skills directly to the safety culture of the organization. As the safety culture develops, we can shift our focus from safety to operations thus ensuring a seamless transition.
In a cultural transformation, qualitative elements are just as important as quantitative elements. After implementing a Safely Achieving the Technical Limit® program, you can look forward to significant and sustained:
You get real results from real engagements with us and with a Safely Achieving the Technical Limit® program. You generate real accountability for those results. When you’re ready for performance improvement, contact The REACH Group.