Who is Fortron Industries?

Joint

venture between Celanese and

Kureha.

In

Wilmington for 20 years.

What

we do?

Manufacture polyphenylene sulfide resin.

Behavior Based Safety

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!

What would your organization do?

All depends on the culture of the organization!!!

What is culture?

Culture comes in many forms.

In a petri dish.

In your milk and in your ears!!

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?

Whats the last thing a Redneck says

before a really bad accident?

Yall 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

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do you know if you are getting better?

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
exampl
e of
behavi
ng
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 peoples
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 PEOPLE
Knowledge
Skills
Personal Values

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Elements of an incident free

workplace:
3. BEHAVIOR
Safe 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

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Culture

What is Culture?

Culture is a shared set of

commonly-held general beliefs and
values that influence peoples
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

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Critical Task Determinations

Observation training

Data collection through observations

Data collation and evaluation.

Communication and action steps.

Fortron BBS

We implemented Safe Start to effect behavioral change.

We started conducting workplace observations to measure how

we are doing.

How

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did we do it? Ask Rick Gregory.

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

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2 Options
1.

On-site Trainer 2500.00 per day

2.

Train the Trainer SME $2500.00 for 2 trainers

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

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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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Eyes not on task

Mind not on task

Loss of balance traction or grip

Moving into or being in the line of fire

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

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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

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

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Employee Engagement (safety meetings)

Questions?

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