OPEN COURSES
Human Performance Lunch & Learn - January 12, 2023
Human Performance Lunch & Learn - January 12, 2023
Human Performance Lunch & Learn - January 12, 2023
What is Human Performance and why does it matter to the construction industry?
Hint.....A new generation of safety management focusing on systems and leadership issues.
Three main concepts:
- Understanding how the brain works at work.
- Most incidents are caused by the system not the worker.
- You can judge or you can learn.
Why does HP matter to construction?
- We have made major improvements in minor injury prevention, yet fatalities have plateaued over the last 20 years.
- Resources are more limited than ever in the construction industry. HP helps us target our resources where they receive the biggest return on investment.
- HP isn't just a safety thing; it is an operating philosophy that improves all areas of performance. It can also help reduce errors in other areas such as estimating.
Register here:
https://www.agcga.org/Shared_Content/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=011223LNL
Human Performance I - February 9, 2023
Human Performance Lunch & Learn - January 12, 2023
Human Performance Lunch & Learn - January 12, 2023
Human Performance is the most well-respected operating philosophy for safety management and incident analysis.
Human error and at-risk behavior are often identified as they cause of many accidents. However, human error is most often a symptom of deeper issues within the safety management system.
Many individuals are placed in safety management roles without exposure and development in advanced safety management principles. Regulatory compliance and rule-based safety management can only take you so far. A deep understanding of Human Performance principles is essential to managing safety effectively.
This course will provide you with an understanding of the new view of safety performance and its history. Understanding human error requires us to understand the system and leadership issues from the view of the worker. Once equipped with a deeper understanding of our systems, we can create better defenses that reduce error or make it safer to fail.
What you will learn:
- Brain centered hazards and error rates based on type of work performed.
- How culture and leadership influence individual behavior
- How to understand the underlying factors that increase the likelihood of incidents.
- Determining the difference between human error, system induced error, and intentional violations.
To improve safety performance, we must provide our team with the best safety science available. This course is designed as an introduction to the concepts.
Register here:
https://www.agcga.org/Shared_Content/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=020923HP1
Advanced Safety Management - May 23-26, 2023
Advanced Safety Management - October 10-13, 2023
Advanced Safety Management - October 10-13, 2023
Developing a high-performance safety culture requires much more than programs and regulatory compliance. In this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the impact of organizational culture on safety performance and how to implement leading-edge safety systems. The knowledge gained from this course will prepare you to take your construction or general industry organization's safety performance to the next level.
What you will learn:
- Evolution of safety management principles
- Impact of organizational culture
- Importance of management leadership and employee engagement
- Development of safety management systems
- Effective risk assessment
- Introduction to human performance
How you will benefit:
- Identify and utilize the most current safety management principles that drive the safety process.
- Understand the impact of organizational culture on safety performance.
- Gain an understanding of safety management systems.
- Learn how to create a high-performance safety culture in your organization.
Register here:
https://pe.gatech.edu/courses/advanced-safety-management#tab-overview
Advanced Safety Management - October 10-13, 2023
Advanced Safety Management - October 10-13, 2023
Advanced Safety Management - October 10-13, 2023
Developing a high-performance safety culture requires much more than programs and regulatory compliance. In this course, you will gain a deeper understanding of the impact of organizational culture on safety performance and how to implement leading-edge safety systems. The knowledge gained from this course will prepare you to take your construction or general industry organization's safety performance to the next level.
What you will learn:
- Evolution of safety management principles
- Impact of organizational culture
- Importance of management leadership and employee engagement
- Development of safety management systems
- Effective risk assessment
- Introduction to human performance
How you will benefit:
- Identify and utilize the most current safety management principles that drive the safety process.
- Understand the impact of organizational culture on safety performance.
- Gain an understanding of safety management systems.
- Learn how to create a high-performance safety culture in your organization.
Register here:
https://pe.gatech.edu/courses/advanced-safety-management#tab-overview
Client Specific Courses
Intro to Human Performance
Creating an Intentional Safety Culture
Creating an Intentional Safety Culture
Human Performance is the next generation of safety management. Human error is often identified as the cause of many accidents. However, it is the beginning point rather than the end point in truly understanding both accident causation and safety performance.
The old view of safety assumes that people can choose to make errors, and that when they do, it is due to willful misconduct. The new view understands that all humans make mistakes every day, and every hour. This requires us to understand the system and leadership issues that can cause human error and how to create systems that reduce error or make it safer to fail.
In this course you will learn the six principles of human performance:
1. People are failable and even the best make mistakes.
2. Error-likely situations are predictable.
3. Individual behaviors are influenced by culture and leadership.
4. Organizations and people drift.
5. Events can be avoided by learning.
6. People achieve high levels of performance through encouragement and reinforcement.
Creating an Intentional Safety Culture
Creating an Intentional Safety Culture
Creating an Intentional Safety Culture
“Our biggest problem is lack of buy in.”
Have you ever heard or said that before? If you have, lack of employee buy in is not the problem. Your sales pitch is the problem.
People don’t buy what they are told is valuable, they buy what they believe is valuable. Often an organization will try to sell a culture improvement process to the workforce by focusing on the benefits to the company, not the people. What the workforce hears, is “more work for the same amount of pay”.
If your goal is to improve your safety culture and increase the buy in of the workforce, then you must focus on the benefits to the workers, not the organization.
Our, Creating an Intentional Safety Culture course, focuses on engaging the emotional component your workforce is feeling, but not always talking about, to increase buy in. We teach you how to build a culture change team that will spread their influence throughout the organization and how to hold people accountable for the change effort.
Real Coaching
Creating an Intentional Safety Culture
Real Coaching
Coaching is an often-misused term. Coaching is the process of helping people discover their own solutions to their own problems.
Many excel at telling others what they should or should not do; few teach others how to think for themselves. If you feel like your team is putting the same fires out, repeatedly; then it is time to incorporate real coaching into your daily conversations.
Real coaches do not tell people how to solve their problems. Instead, real coaches ask thinking questions that help people improve their own thinking. That is the heart of coaching, learning the skill of helping people think better.
In this course you will learn how to influence your team to move away from problem focused thinking and toward solution-based thinking. You will learn how to ask thought provoking questions instead of telling people what they should do. By coaching others to solve their own problems by providing their own solutions, you will free up resources and accomplish the same level of performance with much less effort required. The end goal of coaching is to work smarter, not harder.