Reflections... Reminders
“Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything.”
~ Marge Kennedy
APM Team,
The past two months have been an energizing time in APM @ our LDC. We have hosted ~250 people, including a New Superintendent Course for ~25 new superintendents (along with another in Canada), a Project Superintendent Course for ~20 top superintendents to support transactional (ex: no FE) scopes, and multiple Live Outage Courses for ~30 core superintendents and crews (along with a few of our GE partners).
A highlight for my month is engaging with our New Superintendent candidates in two sessions – APM Excellence aka CBS & the Safety Keystone and APM Leadership aka Balmert tools. It does me good to spend time with our next generation field leaders, stressing the importance of safety, not only as a business strategy but more importantly a value of human life and impact. I trust our time together is valuable for our new superintendents as well.
One value I get from the New Superintendent Course is reminders on fundamental concepts of CBS & the Safety Keystone. As the quote above emphasizes, reminders are good and needed. So in that spirit I share three basic reminders:
1. When is it OK to do a task without knowing the risks and expected outcomes? Never. We always perform a Safety Task Analysis (STA).
2. When an organization values safety, what does it mean to all employees?
We each think about it?
We each talk about it?
We each act on it!
3. What does a good action (or commitment) look like?
Safety excellence is created by all employees on a task basis. This begins with a commitment from each employee.
-Jake