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Introduction. Safety Solutions offers evaluation and training services tailored to prevent lost work time due to accidents and injuries. We will demonstrate how a culture of safety and communication will make a substantial difference in the way people operate.

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  1. Introduction • Safety Solutions offers evaluation and training services tailored to prevent lost work time due to accidents and injuries. • We will demonstrate how a culture of safety and communication will make a substantial difference in the way people operate. • Advice given on the finer points of adhering to industry and government regulations. • Supporting statistics will be shown that emphasize how a safety-oriented mindset does make a difference.

  2. Our Success • Safety Solutions has proudly served hundreds of companies for over the past 25 years. Companies that we have served range from small businesses to large corporations. • Our certified staff takes pride in our quality and attention of work that we perform. • We have a great success rate for improving company’s safety violations from reoccurring in the future in which saves time, money and most importantly accidents.

  3. Illness and Injury

  4. Why Communicate? • Benefits of Communicating • Reduction of Product Waste • Reduction of Employee Down Time • Safety

  5. Communication • "A person runs into a building and yells "Conflagration" will not get anywhere near the reaction of someone who yells "Fire." Good communicators know that they must adjust their vocabulary to their audience." Slagle, R. (n.d.). Retrieved February 20, 2012, from county.org: http://www.county.org/resources/library/county_mag?county/132/communication.html • How to Communicate... • Clear • Precise • Body Language • Tone • Timing

  6. OSHA’s Top 10 Violations of 2011 Fall protection in construction: 7,139 violations Scaffolding in construction: 7,069 violations Hazard communication: 6,538 violations Respiratory protection: 3,944 violations Lockout/tagout: 3,639 violations Electrical wiring methods:3,584 violations Powered industrial trucks:3,432 violations Ladders in construction: 3,244 violations Electrical general requirements: 2,863 violations Machine guarding: 2,748 violations

  7. -Culture- “The way we do things around here”

  8. Safety Culture

  9. Safety Culture

  10. Culture A Value not Priority More than just Compliance

  11. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

  12. Why is culture top down?

  13. Action Steps Needed(Managers) • Use proper communication techniques • Repetition • Consistency • Reiterate • Remind • Back it up!

  14. How important is Culture to you?

  15. Citation Maslow, Abraham H. A Theory in Human Motivation. Absract. Washington D.C.: Phycological Review, 1943. Roughton, James E. Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach. Woburn: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.

  16. Injuries among Industry Distribution

  17. Conclusion As you see, much work needs to be done to change the culture and mindset of the workplace, the key to permanent results. We have demonstrated the human and monetary cost that is paid when safety is neglected. Change must come from the top down, and employees must be reminded frequently that safety-mindedness is expected. The benefits are immense; we are confident our services will help Martin Engineering improve the culture of safety which leads in turn to a quality environment for all concerned.

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