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Who is Fortron Industries?

►Joint venture between Celanese and Kureha.

►In Wilmington for 20 years.

►What we do?

Manufacture polyphenylene sulfide resin.

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Behavior Based Safety

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Safety Performance

►How do we measure safety performance?

Tracking the negatives!!!

Occupational Illness and Injury Rate

Near Misses or Near Hits

Procedure audits. Etc. etc.

In order to get new data:

Someone has to have a near hit or worse yet…..

Someone has to be hurt!!!!

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Safety Performance

What usually happens when safety performance is not up to par?

Inspections?

More Training?

Safety Talks?

Contests?

Discipline!

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What would your organization do?

► All depends on the culture of the organization!!!

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What is culture?

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Culture comes in many forms.

In a petri dish.

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In your milk and in your ears!!

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Safety Culture

►So what is the safety culture of your organization?

Everyone goes home safe.

It is safe because we have always done it that way.

What can go wrong?

Goal setting: How many people are going to get hurt next year?

So if you know how many, can you tell me who?

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What’s the last thing a “Redneck” says before a really bad accident?

Ya’ll watch this!!!

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Safety Performance

►What is the theme for the safety school?

►“Zero in on Zero Accidents”

►What happens when you get to “ZERO”?

►How do you know if you are getting better?

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Safety Performance

►BBS allows us to measure in a new way.

The system allows us to measure the positives.

And, to know if we are getting better.

When at “Zero”

How do you know where you are?

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A simple example of behaving safely.

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What is the goal of BBS?

►To create a workplace safety culture that eliminates unsafe behaviors.

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What is Culture?

“Culture is a shared set of commonly-held general beliefs and values that influence people’s assumptions, perception and behavior.”

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What are some components of culture

that could lead to accidents?

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What are the elements?1 RESOURCES

PPE

Tools & Machinery

Training/Procedures

Rules/Guidelines

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Elements of an incident free workplace:

2 PEOPLEKnowledge

Skills

Personal Values

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Elements of an incident free workplace:

3. BEHAVIORSafe Acts

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What causes accidents?

►According to statistics from organizations like Dupont and the National Safety Council show that 80-90% of all workplace injuries are linked to unsafe acts

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Changing Culture

►Culture

►Values

►Attitude

►Behaviors

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Changing Culture

►Behaviors

►Attitude

►Values

►Safe Culture

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What is Culture?

“Culture is a shared set of commonly-held general beliefs and values that influence people’s assumptions, perception and behavior.”

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BBS Bringing Change

► BBS is a way to change behavior that eventually changes the culture.

►Requires:

Patience. Yours and the boss.

Support : yours and the others in the workforce.

Continuing refreshers.

Lead by example and getting others to do the same.

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What is the goal?

►To create a workplace safety culture that eliminates unsafe behaviors.

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BBS What is our method?

►Combined approach:

Changing the way we think-Safe Start

Measuring the way we act-Workplace observations.

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SafeStart Basics

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Workplace observations

► Critical Task Determinations

► Observation training

► Data collection through observations

► Data collation and evaluation.

► Communication and action steps.

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Fortron BBS

► We implemented Safe Start to effect behavioral change.

► We started conducting workplace observations to measure how we are doing.

►How did we do it? Ask Rick Gregory.

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Implementation of BBS at Fortron

► A team was formed (FSCT) to drive change at our site

► Visited different sites, used the (SWIPE) method

► Safety Conferences (find the right program)

Site Vision (alignment)

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Safetstart Program

► 2 Options

1. On-site Trainer 2500.00 per day

2. Train the Trainer SME $2500.00 for 2 trainers

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Safetstart Program Continued

► How did we do it?

2 eight hour blocks of instruction (site wide)

President to maintenance.

Set a goal to have the entire program complete before

our yearly October turn around

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What is safe start

► A program that teaches us the 4 states that cause us to get injured

► Self-trigger on one or more of the states to prevent us making critical errors.

1. Rushing

2. Fatigue

3. Frustration

4. Complicacy

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4 critical errors

► Eyes not on task

► Mind not on task

► Loss of balance traction or grip

► Moving into or being in the line of fire

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Safety Observation Program

► Develop a Safety Observation worksheet that was tailored for our

site

► Committee based program

► Trained SCA on how to properly do an effective safety

observation

► The goal of this program was to get conversations started

► Teach people how to talk about safety

► Helped build the courage needed to stop an unsafe act

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How are we doing?

► Terminology is used in everyday task and during toolbox

meetings

► OIS/Hazard recognition has increased every month

(quantity to quality)

► When hazards are recognized we take action in a timely

manner

► Employee Engagement (safety meetings)

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Questions?