RPT Safety & Health Services’ President Donna Cangelosi Crossman, Ph.D. recently authored an article that appeared in a recent issue of Performance Improvement Quarterly. The article, entitled “Gilbert’s Behavior Engineering Model: Contemporary Support for an Established Theory,” was based on dissertation research that Crossman conducted while a doctoral student at Capella University, Minneapolis, MN. Crossman’s original research provided a foundation for the creation of The Failsafe® Workplace, a management program that enables sustainable safety outcomes. Performance Improvement Quarterly is a peer reviewed research journal published by the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) and Wiley InterScience.

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Evidence-Based Safety Management
RPT Develops Innovative Safety Culture Measurement Method

Although your safety program is procedurally sound, the potential for incident and injury may be significant. In actuality, the interface between procedures and people is the primary source of injury potential. This interface is deeply psychological in nature, experienced by staff on a visceral level, and understood by all as “safety culture.” Most often, negative safety culture, not procedural deficiency, is at the root of substandard safety performance. Three decades of research has consistently demonstrated that safety culture is key to reducing incidents and injuries.

Yet, safety culture is tough to manage. As an intangible phenomenon, safety culture is difficult to measure. How can you possibly manage a dynamic you can’t measure with confidence?

Typically, a safety climate survey is the current method of choice for managers who are bold enough to undertake an assessment of safety culture. Climate surveys capture worker perceptions of the safety environment. But there are huge variations between human perception and reality, and data obtained through climate surveys is seriously biased and flawed. Basing an improvement initiative on flawed data is a monumental waste of time and money.

As a leading consultancy that deals with a braod range of safety performance issues. RPT Safety & Health Services has worked diligently for several years to develop a robust statistical method that reliably measures safety culture.

• RPT’s proprietary assessment is a fast, efficient means for establishing improvement needs
• A quantitative methodology is employed to measure dynamics and identify system gaps.
• RPT’s safety culture assessment is theoretically rooted in the principles and practices of Human Performance Technology.
• Assessments can be conducted either online or onsite.
• Assessment report includes a list of intervention recommendations that will improve dynamics, eliminate gaps, strengthen culture, and sustain performance.

Call RPT Safety & Health Services today to learn more about our innovative safety culture assessment technique.

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The FailSafe Workplace® Sustainability System
A Revolutionary Safety Management Paradigm

Effective safety management requires coordination of three facets—technical, social, and economic. Current safety management practice addresses each dimension in isolation. However, The FailSafe Workplace® (patent pending) is designed to tie together these three critical strands, enabling attainment of program sustainability and achievement of World Class Safety performance. The FailSafe Workplace® Management System is, first and foremost a performance improvement strategy that integrates with any existing safety program, and secondarily a culture building tool. Rooted in the principles of Human Performance Technology, The FailSafe Workplace® has overwhelming power to target and mitigate “acceptable” risks that thwart program sustainability and ensure a continuous course of upward improvement. Characteristic of the strategy is the low cost/high impact nature of performance interventions, which positively impact the bottom line, both short term and long range.

If your safety program lacks a formal, systematic sustainability strategy, your program is to a large extent luck dependent. Incidents will occur periodically "out of the blue," and there never seems much you can do about them. The FailSafe Workplace® Sustainability System is a method for reducing the luck factor and increasing the odds significantly for success.

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Award-winning safety performance requires the integration of a sustainability strategy with your existing program. Generally, most safety programs lack a formal, systematic strategy, and efforts to sustain performance are isolated and fragmented. Learn how The FailSafe Workplace® Sustainability System, based on the principles and practices of Human Performance Technology, drives World Class Safety performance through low cost/high impact methods. Download our e-book now and receive The FailSafe Workplace® core tool for evaluating “acceptable” risks that may be thwarting your current safety program.

HPT is a branch of study, drawing best practices from numerous established disciplines, including psychology, education, sociology, organizational management, systems theory, and economics. HPT is unlike other change initiatives like TQM, Six Sigma, or Lean, as its focus is on improvement of human capital rather than process enhancement. As a safety sustainability process, HPT targets latent, deeply embedded risks that presuppose human error and undermine system reliability. The hallmark of HPT is the low cost/high impact nature of interventions. Research indicates that HPT implementations provide on average an 8:1 return on investment.

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