Request a QSE Speaker for Your Organization

Organizations worldwide rely on QSE to provide speakers for keynote addresses, luncheon speeches, and leadership retreats. QSE’s presentations on safety and leadership target the critical issues facing business leaders today and in the future. Whether your organization is interested in an introduction to behavior-based safety, resolving problems in an existing behavior-based initiative or advanced topics like creating a world class safety culture or coaching safety leadership, QSE can inform and excite your participants.

You can choose from the following list of sample topics, or request a custom presentation to address the specific concerns of your organization.

We have organized sample topics for those who are “New to Behavior-Based Safety” and for those who are “Already Using Behavior Based Safety.”

New to Behavior-Based Safety?

1. “An Introduction to Values Based Safety®” – The Values-Based Safety Process uses employee involvement, total quality management and organizational development to create a process of continuous improvement in safety management. This presentation will provide an overview of the Values-Based Safety Process: what it is, why it works and the types of improvements that accompany its implementation. It will provide you with all the necessary information to decide whether your organization will benefit from behavior based safety.

2. “Safety, Then and Now” - This presentation will contrast the behavioral approach with more traditional safety programs (including DuPont STOP). Using case studies and data from domestic and international implementations of behavior based safety, participants will receive a clear perspective on the value added of behavioral safety. Participants will leave with an in depth understanding about how the behavioral approach will enhance their safety improvement efforts.

3. “Questions about Behavioral Safety Processes” – In this presentation we will answer the questions most frequently raised by safety committees, safety professionals, and management teams regarding behavioral safety improvement efforts. The following are some of the issues that will be addressed:

• Are there different ways to implement behavior based safety? What are they?
• Are we ready to pilot a behavioral approach?
• How should managers and supervisors be involved in the behavioral safety process?
• How long does it take to see measurable results?
• Is this approach cost effective?
• How do we maximize employee participation to ensure optimum sustainability?
• Should recognition and awards be a formal part of behavioral safety improvement efforts?

The presentation will include an overview of the steps required to design and implement Values-Based Safety®.

Already Using Behavior Based Safety?

1. “Leadership in a Safety: Problems and Solutions" - Effective leadership provides a foundation critical to the success of any improvement effort. This presentation will include common leadership problems that damage employees' attitudes and participation in safety, and a summary of recent research on leadership practices and its implications for leaders. The presentation will also present the Values-Based Leadership model and discuss the management systems necessary to support effective leadership practices.

2. “Leadership: The Key to Creating Safety as a Value” - Leadership’s role is to establish safety as a value, which requires more than just rhetoric and well phrased written commitments. Leader behavior—the things leaders say and do on a daily basis—must support safety as a value. Leadership’s decisions and priorities must reflect a bias for safety. This presentation provides leaders with a positive model for safety leadership, as well as an analysis of the behaviors that conflict with building a world class safety culture.

3. “Potholes in the Road to Behavioral Safety” – Companies with a mature behavior-based process often struggle with a number of common problems, including:

• Low rate of employee participation
• Resistance to safety observations and feedback
• A reluctance to provide feedback to peers
• Forms completed without actual observation

In this presentation, we will describe some of the causes of these problems and how they can be addressed. We will show how you can adapt existing behavior-based processes to new safety related problems and issues, infusing your process with new vigor and creating enthusiasm and excitement for those who participate in applying behavior based safety.

4. “Measure Up! Achieving Continuous Improvement in Safety” - Many companies struggle to determine the best metrics for their safety improvement efforts. Safety teams often overuse brainstorming and underuse data in their continuous improvement efforts. Management scorecards often place too much emphasis on recordable incidents. The presentation will include a discussion of:

• Common deficiencies in our measures of safety
• How safety measures are often misused
• Safety measures appropriate for different levels of the organization

In addition, the presentation will discuss how to create a culture that fosters trust and supports appropriate safety data.

5. “Safety Awards and Incentives: How to Use Them Effectively” - For the last decade both safety professionals and psychologist have debated the effectiveness of extrinsic rewards. We will discuss both sides of the issue and summarize the current research studies and recent court decisions relevant to the use of safety awards in improvement efforts. The presentation will include guidelines on how to avoid common problems and recommendations for the design of effective safety awards and incentives.

Contact us to request a custom topic for your organization.