B-T Accelerating Safety

Motivating and Developing Employees for Rapid Improvements in Safety Performance


Bovo-Tighe's Approach to Safety:

  • Our approach is simple, practical, proven, and supplements existing Safety programs - it is completely complementary to what is already in place.

  • On the surface, safety is a "no-brainer". But we don't have a zero safety-incidence world because safety becomes a "have-to" instead of a want-to. This creates an environment where workers are compliant but not engaged.

  • Our successes with all of our business processes, including Safety, begin by Transforming Mindsets.

  • Transforming mindsets starts with supervisors and workers understanding their own work styles and motivating factors. In other words - how is each worker hard-wired to follow safety practices and procedures, to work at a reasonable pace when safety is an issue - and what will motivate him/her to respond to safety policies, procedures, and instruction?

  • We have a proven, non-threatening method that spearheads the ENGAGEMENT process and better motivates workers to WANT-TO follow safety policies and procedures. We follow with customized, easy-to-implement processes and trainings that make safety improvement practical and successful.



EH&S Managers and Workplace Supervisors with Responsibility for Safety What If You Know EXACTLY What To Do and How . From Your Employees' Own Data!

  • Bovo-Tighe provides a fast, standardized survey for employees to learn their own work style and motivating factors.

  • This survey is administered online, from any Internet connection, so employees do not need to be in one place, at the same time, in order to start the process.

  • We provide survey debriefs on the phone, or in-person, to further explain survey results and how it relates to workplace safety.

  • Employees take ownership of this data because it is non-judgmental, non-threatening, and presented in a positive manner. They become enthusiastic about the process, almost immediately, because they see it can help improve not only their safety performance, but also their relationships and other aspects of their careers lives.

  • Another key benefit of the data is to provide EH&S Managers and Workplace Supervisors with tools to more effectively communicate safety practices to different types of individuals and teams. So You Know Exactly What To Do and How!!!


Experienced Training, Operations Consulting, and Coaching

Bovo-Tighe has an extensive, successful track record teaching Accelerating Safety workshops, working with organizations to improve safety practices in production/operations environments, and coaching supervisors and their teams to follow correct safety practices and improve safety performance.



Bovo-Tighe Case Study - Chemical Manufacturing Operations

Situation

  • Large team of manufacturing workers.
  • 78% increase in annual incidents, despite increased investment in EH&S staff and resources.
  • Positive business trends are requiring additional manufacturing capacity, hiring.
  • Bovo-Tighe Safety Program Enhancements
  • Consulting to help EH&S management better communicate with supervisors and workers.
  • Workshops to train employees all employees to use simple safety reminders.
  • Brainstorming with safety improvement teams to find critical habit fixes and other immediate, fixable safety priorities.
  • After first year, annual refresher for all staff members.

Results

  • During this two-year period, the organization experienced significant production and manpower increases, so safety incident reduction would be expected to INCREASE without a change in safety practices and implementation.
  • Year One - 9% reduction in safety incidents.
  • Year Two - 37% reduction in safety incidents.

Bovo-Tighe Accelerating Safety Offerings

  • Assessment and interpretation of team and individual safety styles and motivating factors, plus organizational surveys (as necessary) to identify challenges and opportunities.
  • One-day introductory training workshop - B-T Accelerating Safety - for open enrollment or intact work teams.
  • Development of customized improvement process to deal with the specific challenges of an organization or team.
  • Follow-on workshops and consulting, as necessary, to help implement safety improvements.
  • Safety coaching for teams, supervisors, and/or individual employees.