Comments on: Overcoming Resistance to Safety Standards https://cruciallearning.com/blog/overcoming-resistance-to-safety-standards/ VitalSmarts is now Crucial Learning Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:25:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: David Maxfield https://cruciallearning.com/blog/overcoming-resistance-to-safety-standards/#comment-1858 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:25:34 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=1895#comment-1858 Craig, What a wonderful example! You’ll never know if your conversation that day–along with others–saved someone’s life, but you know you’re doing the right thing.

The personal approach is so powerful, especially when people have drifted into complying for the wrong reasons–rules, threats, observations, etc. Reminding them of the real reasons for safety practices can touch their hearts and change their actions.

thanks,
David

]]> By: David Maxfield https://cruciallearning.com/blog/overcoming-resistance-to-safety-standards/#comment-1857 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:24:25 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=1895#comment-1857 Craig, What a wonderful example! You’ll never know if your conversation that day–along with others–save someone’s life, but you know you’re doing the right thing.

The personal approach is so powerful, especially when people have drifted into complying for the wrong reasons–rules, threats, observations, etc. Reminding them of the real reasons for safety practices can touch their hearts and change their actions.

thanks,
David

]]> By: Craig Gauvreau https://cruciallearning.com/blog/overcoming-resistance-to-safety-standards/#comment-1856 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:34:39 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=1895#comment-1856 I am a safety coordinator on a large oil & gas construction project. I have been using the influencer to refine my skills in making change. Over the past few years I have experienced excellent levels of success with this and the model begins to take a life of its own. Here is an example of how I started with making the undesiable desirable, which also lead to peer pressure. It was at a very personal level to the worker.

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We had experienced 5 different tragic single vehicle accidents in one year where the men were ejected from their vehcles driving either to or from the work sites or on their days off. That’s 5 avoidable fatalities, all married with children.

I arrived on one of the sites to discover that the crew truck had all of the seat belts connected so that they could travel without listening to the alarm as they road in the vehicle to camp or town from the work site. In our safety meeting I reviewed the information from the police about seat belts as well as our situation about the 5 fatalities.
We talked about how the families had to move on without a dad or husband.
I mentioned that no one would be in trouble regarding the crew truck, but, discussed the fact that we had lost 5 men that were ejected from the vehicles and died as a result. (This was winter in Northern Alberta Canada where road conditions are not great.) So they have a great chance of dying if the vehcile goes off the road. But if they were okay with someone else raising their kids and sleeping with their wife, then carry on not using the seat bealts while traveling in the winter on icy roads. There were 14 people in the meeting and you could have heard a pin drop.

I wasn’t sure if they were angry with me for looking at the situation that way until 3 of them said “thanks” and that they never considered their behavior in that way and that they would be using the seat belts.
This appearently became the consensus at that work site and there was soon a zero tolerence at the worker level.

We have been using this very personal approach where I currently work.
The model works excellent. We have a very positive safety program and the men look out for each other. It takes effort but it works.

Good Luck
Craig

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