Safety Moment - Start Strong, Finish Strong: The Power of Effective Job Initiation

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You've heard it said a million times, you're going to hear it said a million

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more times, just get used to it.

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Planning is important. The best, best things start with good, good plans.

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Planning builds capacity. We'll be right back.

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Hi everybody and welcome to the pre-accident investigation safety moment i am

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todd conklin i'll bet you a million dollars you think the next thing i'm going

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to say is that planning is insufficient and plans can't plan for unexpected

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events i bet you you're thinking of that right now, but I'm not going to say that.

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Oh, no, this is much different. This safety moment is really about the power

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of starting the job effectively.

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Because if you start good, chances are pretty high you're going to end good.

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Now, that's kind of an old saying. You probably heard it. It's kind of a football

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coach kind of thing to say.

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But I think there's a lot of power in understanding and kind of revitalizing what we do to start a job.

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Because it is at this point we can determine where the risk is as best we understand

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it, but more importantly, where the controls are.

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And those we can understand quite, quite specifically.

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You can't manage uncertainty because it's uncertainty, but you can manage your

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preparation to have uncertainty.

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And that's where starting good equates into ending good.

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We, I think, don't appreciate the power of the tailboard meeting,

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of the toolbox talk, of the pre-job.

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And I think we've sort of built an administrative burden around it that makes

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it kind of a paperwork activity and not a thinking activity.

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Workers have two forms of time that they manage, time to think and time to act.

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Planning builds in time to think and thinking builds capacity.

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And capacity is what we count on when unexpected events enter our work playing field.

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A job that starts good ends good.

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That's the pre-accident investigation safety moment for today.

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Just a little teaser, kind of wetting your whistle. Think about it.

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Learn something new every single day. Have as much fun as you possibly can.

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And for goodness sakes, be safe.

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