We wanted to give a shout-out to the BC Construction Safety Alliance and Travis Robertson for helping to facilitate the safety climate tool survey for us. The process was super simple, fast and FREE.
We got great feedback from our team on improving our overall operations and safety performance.
You can view our Safety Climate Tool – Benchmarks results (in PDF format).
Some of the highlights were positive comments around our commitment to safety at RDC and our overall program structure which was fantastic to hear. But what we really wanted to find out was where our team wanted us to focus our improvement energy.
The survey was able to pinpoint our tops areas for improvement, which were noted as:
Through follow-up discussions with the team, we realized quickly that the backbone of the improvement required for our safety program are highly aligned with our LEAN, the practices we have been working on implementing.
(Check out RDC Fine Homes president Bob Deek’s blog from last week highlighting LEAN Construction practices followed by RDC Fine Homes)
Here is the Safety Learning loop that we mapped out. We need to improve our planning process and our ability to implement the lessons learned.
Improve our planning process and our ability to implement our lessons identified.
RDC’s goal has been to foster a flat organizational culture where anyone on the team can speak up to anyone else and provide a friendly reminder that there might be a better way to do a task or that an improvement needs to happen. Having hard conversations is tough but the sooner you have them the sooner you could be preventing an unwanted occurance.
Here are some principles around safety that we have been working to share with the team.
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