Articles
Publications
Building a Better Safety Vehicle: Leadership-Driven Culture Change at General Motors, Professional Safety
At GM, only when managers and supervisors across the board began to talk aggressively to workers about their concerns, investigate incidents with the intention of correcting underlying root causes and demonstrate how important they felt worker safety was, did workers truly begin to heed their directives.
Transforming Safety Culture: Grassroots-Led Management Supported Change at a Major Utility
Implementing culture change in any organization with deeply entrenched subcultures presents special challenges. Transforming the safety culture in a utility with dozens of gas, electric and customer service sites requires particularly creative, customized solutions.
GE’s Crash Course in Culture Change, Occupational Hazards
Why did some GE service centers have outstanding safety performance while others were totally unacceptable? Using an intensive facility-by-facility approach across its 65 sites globally, GE and its CCC consultant drilled down into the safety culture to find the answers.
Grassroots Safety Culture Revolution at Lawrence Livermore Labs
In 1990, the Maintenance and Operations department at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories embarked with CCC on a journey to develop a grassroots-led safety culture. Their process became so successful that they were asked by the Department of Energy to host an annual Safety Culture Revolution conference for the DOE complex – which they did for eight years running.
Implementing Culture Change at GE – Breaking the Safety Barrier, Professional Safety
See how the team at Culture Change Consultants helped union and management employees to establish a partnership that resulted in thir achieving breakthrough safety results at a General Electric pre-Civil war heavy manufacturing facility in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
On the Future of the Safety Profession by Steven I. Simon, Ph.D.
The safety profession is at a crossroads. Today’s practitioner is still definable chiefly as a repository of technical skills, but tomorrow’s safety professional will have to be both a technical expert and a change agent. This chapter examines the changing safety function, which is moving inexorably and rapidly towards a people-oriented activity.
Speaking Engagements and Interviews
Professional Safety Journal: PS Asks: Steve Simon
Professional Safety Journal interviews Steve Simon, President of Culture Change Consultants about his 30 years experience guiding companies through successful safety culture change.
Executive Edge: Aligning EHS Leadership in Creating Business Excellence
Steve Simon, President of Culture Change Consultants, and Jere Zimmerman, Director of Sustainability, Health, and Environment – MillerCoors, keynote at Executive Edge. The Executive Edge leadership track brings together business executives and top leaders in environmental, health and safety (EHS) management at the National Safety Council’s Annual Congress & Expo.
Feature Article on Culture Change Consultants from the OSHA Compliance Advisor
Consultant Steven Simon recalls one enthusiastic employer who stated excitedly after attending a seminar on safety culture, “I like this culture change stuff. I want it in by Monday!” Not gonna happen, says Simon.
White Papers
Safety Culture Assessment as a Transformative Activity
The culture assessment measures leading indicators that can make or break a safety program. Its value to the measurement repertoire is equaled if not surpassed by its potential for launching organizations into a culture change through a powerful, transformative look in the organizational mirror.
Creating a Work Culture of Psychological Safety: Making it Safe to Speak Up
Psychological Safety is best defined as a climate in which members of a team or organization feel safe enough to speak up about problems, raise important questions, point out hazardous conditions, confront negative behaviors or bring forth new ides and solutions.
ASSE Safety Culture Symposium
Steve Simon talks about the essential components of successful culture change, including both the visible and invisible. Read the article for mini case studies and success stories.
Success Stories
Can Speaking Up Keep Recordables Down?
At the Ball Corporation Aluminum Beverage Can Plant in Wallkill, NY, something could have been better. With 165 employees effectively producing nearly two billion cans annually, safety was a top priority. They had all the right structures in place, and their number of safety incidents was already lower than what is typically seen in a manufacturing environment. But management thought there was room for improvement: they wanted to drive those numbers even lower.
COLLATERAL REPAIR: How a Safety Culture Initiative Resulted in Some Unanticipated Benefits for an Independent Oil Refinery
In the CHS McPherson Refinery reducing the number of incidents and injuries was the main purpose of safety culture change; but they found an increase in trust and employee involvement may be its most important byproduct.
Overcoming a Safety Plateau: SCE’s BCD Adopts Culture Change to Address Longstanding Safety Issues
See how Southern California Edison’s Business Customer Division used grassroots led safety teams to address longstanding safety issues. Using Culture Change Consultant’s Safety Culture Tools they showed marked improvement in not only specific safety issues but in the overall safety culture.
