No Accident

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  • Safety isn’t expensive, it’s priceless. Join in on the conversation as we speak to safety leaders that have taken their companies to the next level by creating an environment that encompasses safety and minimizes risk. Because the truth is safety doesn’t just happen - you have to be intentional If you want to reap the operational and financial benefits of a safe workplace. It’s paramount. It’s consequential. It’s No Accident. The No Accident Podcast is presented by TRUCE, the leader in eliminating mobile device distractions so your team can do more. Safely.
    2020 Truce
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  • Barton McMillin | How to Know When Safety is Catching

    Barton McMillin | How to Know When Safety is Catching
    Oct 14 2021
    All it took was a single industrial safety class for Barton McMillin to realize a career in safety was right for him — particularly because it didn’t require sitting behind a desk 24 hours a day. “Things that I was learning in the safety class, I could apply during my normal day of work,” Barton, who maintained a job throughout college, says. “So it was like, hey, this stuff's making sense and it's interesting. And I couldn't say that about a lot of the other classes that I was taking.”In this episode of the No Accident podcast, presented by TRUCE, we hear from Barton, who’s worked in the industry for more than 25 years and currently serves as the Vice President of Environmental, Health, & Safety at Swedish multinational telecommunications company Ericsson. He discusses why engagement with a safety culture is a great measurement of a company’s success, why it’s important to think of safety in the proactive sense rather than simply compliance, and why safer employees are more lucrative for the business.“I am the safety guy, but I'm also here to help the business,” he says. “And helping the business is to make sure that the business understands what risks we're taking and how it's affecting our people.”He also explains why a good safety professional is someone who genuinely cares about their employees’ safety inside and outside of work rather than simply being focused on productivity and how much money an injury could cost the company. Barton believes in expanding our definition of safety to include other elements of an employee's wellbeing, such as mental health. Especially in the past year and a half, he’s noticed that the pandemic brought everyone to a new level of stress that inevitably affected safety. But it’s important to overcome the stigma around mental health in order to address these stressors in the workplace. “One of the things I think that gets overlooked in the safety world is the wellbeing of people,” he says. “Fatigue and mental wellbeing is probably an associated cause with 90% of all injuries and incidents.” Featured Guest👉 Name: Barton McMillin👉 What he does: As the Vice President of Environmental, Health, & Safety at Ericsson, the Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company, Barton uses his more than 25 years of experience in the safety field to ensure his employees are buying in to his proactive, engagement-focused safety approach.👉 Company: Ericsson👉 Key quote: “Business is important, but people are as well. And they can't go without each other.”👉 Where to find him: LinkedIn Safe Takes⚠️ Safety isn’t just the recording of incident rates. It’s important to follow OSHA and report injuries, but Barton notes that there’s a whole other proactive element to safety that every company should emphasize in its safety culture. What can you do now to prevent injuries from happening in the future?⚠️ Engagement is a great measure of the success of your safety culture. An engaged employee, especially an employee whose boss is asking them about their concern regarding safety for themselves and their coworkers is an employee who’s much more likely to buy into the safety culture and think proactively when it comes to being safe. ⚠️ You need safe, healthy employees to have a lucrative company. Good safety leaders, Barton believes, ensure they’re not only worried about productivity metrics, they’re looking at the larger picture of who safety protocols affect. “Without the people, you don't get the numbers. You don't get the productivity,” he notes. And keeping people safe includes checking in on mental health, especially in the COVID-19 era. Resources⛑️  Incident rates –– Although Barton notes that they’re not the only thing to focus on as a safety professional, it’s important to know how to compute a firm's incidence rate. ⛑️ Mental health during the pandemic — This Kaiser Family Foundation brief explains the implications of COVID-19 for mental health and substance use. Barton believes all safety professionals need to connect these dots in order to check in on their employees/make sure increased stress isn’t making them less safe. Top quotes from the episode:“That's a common thread, they (his past employers) really care about their employees and they want to do the right thing, not just on a safety level, but just generally speaking. And I think that's an attribute for companies with a strong safety culture.”“Compliance is the foundation. If that's all you're ever talking about, then you're just not getting it. The stuff that they really need to be talking about is the prevention side of it. What are the things that we can do to prevent injuries, incidents from happening?”“If you can measure the amount of engagement between your leadership team and your employees and not just the CEO or the COO leadership engagement, very high-level engagement usually ...
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    30 Min.
  • Tony Wallace | The Operating Discipline of Safety

    Tony Wallace | The Operating Discipline of Safety
    Sep 30 2021
    Whenever Tony Wallace’s wife chops vegetables, he can’t help but put his safety professional hat on. “I’ll gasp, and she'll say, You don't trust me,” he says. “I’ll say, No, I trust you: I don't trust the knife.” Tony has tried to explain that this helicopter approach to safety is an overflow from his workday. “She goes, You must drive people nuts,” he says. “I do, but I just want to make sure that she's safe. If she were to cut her hand, that would be horrible, but there are a lot of other ramifications. And this is where it comes into the workplace too.”The cost of an accident is just one of many topics Tony, the Global Vice President of Safety, Health, and Environmental Quality at industrial gas company Linde, speaks on in this episode of the No Accident podcast, presented by TRUCE. He also explains why Linde’s leaders take a hands-on approach to safety, and the importance of viewing it as a disciplined group effort that helps the whole business, not just individuals. “When our senior leadership goes into the field … they’ll walk around and ask questions like, How are you doing on your safety?” he says. “Talking to the employees and asking the question, What are some things we can do to help make you and your site safer? and then following through. It’s making that connection with our employees and our lineman.” In Tony’s more than 35-year career, he’s never had to deal with anything like COVID-19. But the pandemic reminded him of the impact that everyone’s safety decisions have on one another.Tony says that he’d never hire anyone who doesn’t wear a seat belt, for example, and that translates to people who don’t take COVID-19 precautions, such as wearing a mask on an airplane. The people implementing such rules are still seen as “safety cops,” but he believes he can overcome that mindset by reminding people that following these protocols makes everyone’s lives better. “My background is being able to understand how and why we do things — not simply what the safety answer is, but how we do it together to ensure we can accomplish all of our goals,” Tony says.  Featured Guest👉 Name: Tony Wallace 👉 What he does: As the Global Vice President of Safety, Health and Environmental Quality at Linde, a multinational industrial gas company, Tony uses his diverse business background to implement a we’re-all-in-this-together approach to safety. 👉 Company: Linde👉 Key quote: “Safety is like integrity. Somebody once told me that integrity is what you do when no one's looking. Your ultimate value of safety is what you do when no one is looking.”👉 Where to find him: LinkedIn Safe Takes⚠️ Safety isn’t selfish. Tony says strong safety policies are put in place not only to keep each individual employee safe but to help them keep one another safe. That’s why he encourages his employees to constantly ask themselves, Am I doing these actions solely for me? Or am I doing those actions to help others as well?⚠️ The motivation is to get everyone back to their family in one piece. Tony keeps his employees focused on following safety procedures by reminding them of the ultimate motivation: their family. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s been more important than ever to think about everyone’s fundamental values, and who they want to protect the most. ⚠️ The best way to determine the value of safety is on the ground. When Linde’s senior leadership visits a site, they’re not just doing it as a formality. They actively ask employees about safety procedures, so they can get a sense of how certain protocols are impacting the way the company operates. The company’s leaders take the hot seat too: Tony believes that companies led by people who have a strong working knowledge of safety procedures function more safely than leaders who are out of touch. Resources⛑️ OSHA — Learn about the latest OSHA guidance for mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in all industries.⛑️ The Effectiveness of Management-By-Walking-Around: A Randomized Field Study — Learn more about Linde’s on-the-ground approach to management from an academic perspective.⛑️ Linde’s Safety Commitment Day — Watch Tony talking about Linde’s Safety Commitment Day. Top quotes from the episode:“We come to work — and we do work — for our family. It's important that we get home safely at the end of every day. So no, I don't think we can be too safe.”“Over those 36 years [of working at Linde], everyone has grown in our understanding and our ability to be safe, and our ability to protect our employees, our customers, and the communities that we operate in.”“When we hire people, we explain to them what our process is, how safety is a core value, and that they need to be part of that. So if a person doesn't wear their seat belt, even though it's law … if that's the type of person you are, we don't want you working ...
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    25 Min.
  • Robert Schindler | Is There Really Such a Thing as a Safety Culture?

    Robert Schindler | Is There Really Such a Thing as a Safety Culture?
    Sep 16 2021
    When Robert Schindler started his career in construction 18 years ago, he remembers the safety and operation teams working on opposite sides of the construction site. The safety team didn’t talk to superintendents, or project managers. Everyone did their jobs independently.Now, as the Vice President of Safety at Arch-Con, Robert has seen the benefits of integrating safety across departments and working groups. He believes the best results come from having safety closely intertwined with daily operations.“It’s a part of our DNA,” Robert says of the commercial construction company, which has an award-winning safety program. This mindset has helped play an important role in the success — and profitability — of the company. “Safety directly affects your bottom line. Safety directly affects how you can bid on certain projects. But most importantly, safety is your biggest tool when you’re selling something,” Robert says.Sure, a good safety score will increase project opportunities, but it goes beyond that. To Robert, safety is equated with efficiency. To reap the benefits of safety measures, the approach has to be proactive. A good safety program should create smooth workflow processes and prevent issues before they become a problem, which saves time and money.But, proactivity is only possible when the whole team is on board with safety protocol — and when it’s made simple. Don’t be fooled, though; simplicity does not mean cutting corners.  Featured Guest👉 Name: Robert Schindler👉 What he does: Robert is the Vice President of Safety at commercial design and development company Arch-Con where he leads the company’s award winning, nationally recognized safety program. He has more than 18 years of experience in the construction industry.👉 Company: Arch-Con👉 Key quote: “A good company has a positive safety program. A great company is pushing the boundaries of how to make it better.”👉 Where to find him: LinkedInSafe Takes⚠️ Safety and operations work hand-in-hand. A job is never successful and never profitable when an injury takes place. When safety and operations personnel work together, they are both benefiting.⚠️ Safety is efficiency. The question to ask yourself is “how can safety become more efficient?” The days of safety slowing down projects and creating unnecessary work are over. When done right, safety boosts productivity and quality.⚠️ Safety should be simple, not easy. When safety makes sense, people will understand why regulations are put in place and they will follow them. However, just because it’s simple, doesn’t mean that important steps should be overlooked. Resources⛑️ Arch-Con's safety page— Arch-Con has an award-winning, nationally recognized safety program and an EMR safety rating of 0.70. ⛑️ OSHA — Keep up to date on all the latest safety regulations and trainings from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). ⛑️ American Society of Safety Professionals — Network with other professionals in the field and stay up to date on the latest industry news through the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP). Top quotes from the episode:“I look at safety as being as efficient as possible, and I focus more on, how can we be more efficient? And when you're efficient, the byproduct of that is safety, quality, and production all rolled into one.”“If I'm doing my job properly, then operations will benefit from what I'm putting in. And if they adapt it and they use it, they will be more efficient, which then allows them to be more productive.”“Safety’s hard. And when you try to make it easy, that’s when mistakes happen. There's a huge difference between making it easy and making it simple. Making it simple is putting things in place that people understand. … If you make it easy ... where there are things that they don't have to do, that's when people get hurt and that's when bad things happen.”“A lot of people want to say, Hey, we have a safety culture … That’s one of the things that really, really frustrates me when it comes to safety and construction … that means it’s something different than your actual culture. Safety’s integrated into our culture. It’s part of who we are. Safety is not something separate.”“If you put the time and effort in, on the front side of everything, it pays off in dividends on the back.”
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    26 Min.

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