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OutSourced Safety Support Services
Outsourced Safety Support
Whether your small business is in construction, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, or a nail salon, you probably need support for functions such as accounting, legal, and IT. Business often outsource these functions until they need a full-time resource so they can keep focused on their core business. Safety is different.
Safety is about caring for people, and you can’t outsource caring. Even in companies that have full time safety professionals, safety should not be left to the safety department. Safety needs to be an integral part of how every leader leads, and how you run the business. You need to be efficient for your business to survive, and you also need to be safe for your people to survive. Doing both at the same time is tough, but you will find that when you get safety right, you get a lot of other things right as well:
· You get quality and productivity right.
· Good employees stay and attract others to your firm.
· People who feel valued and respected give more than their time; they give you their best effort, innovation and quality work.
· Your workmen's compensation mod factor and insurance costs drop.
· Your customers can see it and you stand out.
Getting safety right protects your people, your profits and your reputation. WorkSafe Texas helps you integrate safety and efficiency into your operations for a reasonable monthly subscription plus a one-time Startup fee. We serve as your company's fractional (part-time) safety resource providing the support you need, when you need it, without the expense of a full-time salary. This includes:
- STKY (Stuff That will Kill Ya) Assessment so we can focus on the things that pose the greatest risk to your workforce.
- We will review and revise your safety manual to ensure it is current or create one if you don't already have one.
- Regular leadership training workshops to help your leaders build a safer and more efficient operation.
- On-call support for help with best practices, OSHA regulations, and risk evaluations to help reduce your Workman's Comp Mod Factor
- Support for creating OSHA 300 logs and other reporting as needed.
- Access to an online safety resources library with reference tools, presentations, worksheets and training materials.
- Optional site inspections to verify how well safety systems are used.
- Discounted support for additional activities such as site inspections, additional training, etc.
In the United States, 14 people die every day in a workplace incident. No worker thinks it will happen to them, no owner thinks it will happen in their company, but it does. Hundreds, maybe thousands of others only get to go home each day because they were lucky. Luck is good any time you can get it, but it shouldn't be the thing we rely on to get us home each night. The PDR Work Process was built so that people didn't have to count on luck. It is not just a good thing to do, it is good business.
Do We Know Your Business?
Our team is OSHA certified for construction and general industrial safety, and has broad experience across construction, oil and gas, transportation, energy, and mining. Even If your company is not in one of those industries, we can still have enormous impact.
Small businesses tend to focus on safety in two areas:
1. Systems –includes all of the rules, tools, procedures, equipment, and PPE used to keep people safe.
2. Skills – involves training and ensuring competency to execute a job safely.
Your business may use specialized Systems and require Skills that we are new to us. Systems tell you what pulley sized to use when felling a large tree, or how many pounds of explosives are needed to open 8 cubic yards in a quarry.
Our experience tells us two things about safety Systems and Skills:
1. You probably already have the Systems and Skills you need, or you wouldn’t be in business
2. After incidents, we usually find Systems and Skills were in place, but not used or not the cause of the problem.
In other words, Skills and Systems are critical to your safety efforts, but they are just two parts of the larger safety puzzle. To be good at anything: whether it is safety or your favorite sport, you need to build on five key Performance Factors.
Systems – help you understand “How to.”
Skills – Give you confidence that you “Can do.”
Will – is about showing up with mind and body ready for action and up to the challenge. It's a “Want to” mindset.
Culture – Culture (“how we do things around here”) sits at the center of the model and impacts Will, Skill and Systems: for better or for worse. If you have a Culture of optionality, where indifferent people are thrown in to sink or swim, even great Systems and great training to build Skills will be of little consequence. Culture always wins.
In a strong safety Culture, people speak up about risks. They make sure others have the Skills they need to work safely because they want to see everyone get home intact. They follow procedures consistently, even when no one is watching, because that is just how we do things around here. Culture always wins!
Leadership – Leaders are the make-or-break factor in any safety program because leaders:
· Create Systems and ensure their consistent use.
· Ensure that work is only assigned to Skilled people.
· Influence Will by showing their commitment to safety, even when the pressure is on.
· Drive Culture because they decide what gets rewarded and what gets punished.
Leaders are often selected based on their seniority, technical knowledge, or reputation for getting stuff done. Unfortunately, the Skills they need to manage each of the Performance Factors don’t come along with the title!
Long story short, we may not be experts in some particular Systems or Skills required for your business, but we can help you fill those gaps. More importantly we are experts in building Will, Culture and Leadership which are probably at the roots of your biggest safety challenges.
Supplemental safety Support
Taking your existing safety efforts to the next level
If your company already has an established safety function, and you want to do more, we can help. Whether it is dealing with issues like employee or executive engagement, improving your strategies for preventing serious injuries and fatalities (SIF's) or helping upskill your safety leaders we can provide customized, remote or onsite support.
As we explain the section above, many company safety functions only emphasize skills and systems, but fail to address the other three performance factors. We can help you fill in the gaps and build a safe and efficient operation.
