2025 Community of Human and Organizational Learning 31st Annual Conference

When intelligently designed and deployed this effort will positively impact the complexity around serious injuries and fatalities.   By leveraging Enterprise Safety and Health Software that is built on the Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles, allows organizations a more detailed modeling approach to identify groups of individuals, processes, or conditions that may create an unsafe event or SIF accident.  In the absence of having software solutions that incorporate HOP Principles, safety professionals are often forced to conduct concurrent manual processes that take away precious capacity to apply the right resources as the right time to prevent SIFs.

Up until now, we know that the basis of most safety data to date has been lagging based on historical incidents and observed data. The very nature of how traditional software solutions have been organized focus heavily on prevention and truly little on recoverability and resilience. This creates significant challenges for organizations to evolve their SIF prevention process and align the organization on the principles that matter most.

This session will walk through how one organization is applying software differently to achieve better insights and better results. The software improvements that will be shared are based on the presenters’ experience regarding operationalizing HOP in numerous organizations they support and a longer history working with traditional software applications. What this story will tell attendees is how software supports better leader observations and their discussions in keeping the conversation of risk alive, how controls are measured to understand if you are “lucky” versus “good” and how event reviews are supported to shift the focus away from fixing “who” versus “what.”

Course Description for APP: (50 words)

Armed with the insight from safety data captured with these software changes organizations can now focus limited resources on the things where the greatest return can be maximized, i.e., preventing workplace serious injuries and fatalities. Setting the right performance metrics ensure the right information is delivered to the right level at the right time so leaders can act.
Relevance:

Safety and health performance is traditionally measured by lagging indicators that rely on injury and illness statistics. Unlike processes such as production, safety is consistently measured by failure instead of accomplishment. A proactive approach—utilizing enterprise safety and health software designed with Human and Organizational Performance as its foundations focuses on tracking safety and health performance on the things that can cause and prevents serious injuries and fatalities.

Objectives:
1.    How leader observations focused on three simple questions captured through software can be harnessed to address the most significant risks for an organization.
2.    Efficiently capture and report how controls contributed to or prevented the SIF or SIF Potential to identify weaknesses and reinforce for leaders are we "lucky" or are we "good".
3. Align HOP language to support event reviews that focus on fixing "what" versus "who"

Join Ben Goodheart, Ron Gantt, and Dave Provan on an adventure through some of the BS that permeates the world of safety. Whether it’s platitudes, half-truths, or fiction, Ron and Ben will look at a few common safety practices with a focus on stripping away noise and doing what works for the folks doing the work. By choosing a few key topics with the audience, we’ll share stories and experiences to provide practical ways to keep safety human-centered, effective, and fun.

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. At Tesla EHSS we are laser focused on integrating HOP mindset into everything we do. HOP helps us ensure safeguards are based on the blue line. We are building our own Tesla EHSS data management system and HOP mindset is embedded into the system from Design to Reporting. MyEHS is our one stop shop for all EHSS activities. It integrates all EHSS information into one Tesla system. System deployment also enabled HOP aligned language in how we manage events.
For event learning, we have two approaches. SAFE Tool (Safeguard Analysis for Events) and Learning Teams. SAFE tool is simple with three questions 1. What safeguards existed and worked? 2) What safeguards existed and did not work? 3. What safeguards did not exist but could have worked). Learning teams are conducted on events as well as successful work. Environmental Social Governance is moving companies to report non-financial indicators on the 10k. For our lagging indicators, we are moving away from OSHA lagging indicators as lagging metrics and moving towards ASTM as the global metric for safety success. This allows us to focus on what is important rather than focusing on everything.
For our leading indicators, we have our Take Charge program. Take Charge program promotes a culture of improvement by empowering those closest to the work. Take Charge is used in 44 countries, 1616 locations, in 16 different languages. By January 2024, we had 1,136,000+ Take Charge submissions globally with more than 70,100 unique submitters.
We continue to track the traditional lagging indicators only within EHSS. However, we do not set targets for them, we do not include them on our executive dashboards, and we do not include them in our external reporting. They are for tracking/trending purposes and internal EHSS use only. Our focus tells the world what we prioritize.
As a key takeaway, we recommend the following: 1) Hire people that have HOP mindset so that systems, and processes naturally align as you move in your journey. 2) Focus on building capacity to fail safely over preventing all events. 3) Don’t set goals against lagging metrics. 4) Implement tools that enable learning from those closest to the work.

Introduction: In an era where safety and culture within organizations are paramount, traditional methods of engagement and education often fall short of making a lasting impact. This keynote presentation explores an innovative approach: utilizing stand-up comedy techniques to foster a culture of safety and enhance organizational culture.

Objectives and Scope: The presentation aims to demonstrate how storytelling, humor, and engagement techniques derived from stand-up comedy can create meaningful 'Aha' moments, fostering an environment where safety and culture thrive together. By dissecting elements such as the rule of three, audience engagement, callbacks, analogies, metaphors, and self-deprecating humor, we will delve into how these strategies can be effectively applied in non-comedic contexts to influence behavior and attitudes positively.

Main Arguments or Findings: Through a series of examples and case studies, we will uncover how humor can be a powerful tool for good, enabling everyone to find their unique comedic voice to create connections and act as influencers within their organizations. The presentation highlights the intrinsic link between truth and humor, showcasing how finding humor in everyday situations can enhance communication, creativity, and human connection.

Implications or Contributions: The implications of adopting stand-up comedy techniques extend beyond mere entertainment, serving as a catalyst for cultural transformation within organizations. This approach not only improves safety awareness and practices but also contributes to a more engaged, cohesive, and resilient workforce. By embracing humor as an essential element of communication, leaders and employees alike can foster a more inclusive and positive organizational culture.

Conclusion: Stand-up comedy offers more than just laughs; it provides a unique lens through which we can enhance safety culture and organizational engagement. By learning to wield humor effectively, we can create a workplace where safety is integrated seamlessly into the culture, and every individual feels valued and connected.
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