Oct 6, 2022
Joining Libby today is
Jay Canada, VP of Safety and HR at
Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel In this episode, Jay shares details about his
company’s Good Catch program, including its journey all the way
from its origins up to the current day, and the remarkably positive
impact it continues to have.
Episode Highlights:
- While the Good Catch program officially started
in 2009, it really has its roots in a 2007 presentation by
Ron Lehmann regarding culture, skill sets, and mindsets
- This presentation got Jay and others at Pine
Bluff thinking about their culture, and they decided to
become more proactive about safety
- After consulting with Cajun Industries about
their Good Catch program, Pine Bluff decided to start their
own
- Over the years the program has gone through an
evolution regarding why they do what they do, and how to do that
better
- Any idea which notes how things can be safer
where their employees are working everyday is deemed a ‘Good
Catch’
- They have been doing this for over 10 years and
are committed to continuing it
- In 2021 alone, they harvested 946 good catches,
many of which dealt with potential serious injuries or
fatalities
- By focusing on the prevention and the proactive
side in the Good Catch program, they have very positively affected
incidents and events
- They now get together every six months, and
instead of having a safety meeting, they have a culture meeting
where they talk about good catches more and celebrate those,
recognizing people and giving them awards and recognition for the
good catches that they've submitted
- They still talk about incidents as well, of
course, but they have fewer to talk about now
- Like any safety journey, the Good Catch journey
never ends
- Jay definitely encourages others to take
consider implementing some kind of Good Catch program or
process
- Their Good Catch program is forward thinking,
it’s looking before something happens; even more than that, it is a
mindset, a part of their culture, and it is empowering to employees
to find those things that might be unsafe for their
worksite
Toolbox Talk Discussion Questions:
- At Pine Bluff Facility, they look at their
safety culture and shift the focus to proactivity. What are your
thoughts on this?
- How can we work to build this type of mindset
among ourselves?
- Does anyone have a good catch that they’d like
to share with the group?
Quotes:
“How do we think about safety?
And how do we think about our culture? And how do we move into
people's mindsets? And how do we look at the decisions that our
team members make when they are at work?”
“But how do we get upstream? How
do we become more proactive and get into the equation of the
decisions they're making when that incident happens? And so we
decided to think about Good Catch.”
“It's gone through an evolution,
it's gone through many changes.”
“Tell us what your ideas are,
and tell us how this thing can be safer where you're working every
day.”
“It'll evolve and change, but
it's something we believe we're going to do for a very long
time.”
“We have not had a lost time at
a quarry since April 20, of 2016, and we have greatly reduced our
‘recordables’ or ‘reportables’.”
“It's really a
mindset.”
Links:
National Stone, Sand & Gravel
Association website