ZERO INCIDENT PROCESS (ZIP) TRAINING

Our clients come to us every day wondering:<br /> “How do we get our employees to care about their own safety and their teammates’ safety?”<br /> “What can we do to move past this plateau our safety record is stuck on?”<br /> “Our approach just isn’t working. What else can we try?”<br /> While these are complex problems that require pulling many levers to create long-term change, we have found one powerful tool that can inspire significant personal change: Zero Incident Process (ZIP) training.

Many safety interventions which focus on Behavior-based Safety (BBS) assume that external motivators (rewards & punishments) are required to have employees behave in a specific way. While companies may see an initial improvement with this focus, they are likely to see a plateau in achieving their safety goals. ZIP, on the other hand, has a fundamentally different approach. It focuses on the individual as a human, not as a set of behaviors. It takes a Cognitive Behaviorism approach, which recognizes that an individual’s behavior is a function not only of external rewards and punishments, but also the individual’s attitudes, values, beliefs and frames of reference. Dr. E. Scott Gellar, world-renowned safety psychologist, stated that BBS programs, taken alone, cannot be effective unless the workforce believes in and willingly applies its principles. To truly achieve this, it is necessary to integrate both behavioral and psychological approaches to safety.

The ZIP training program is grounded in the principles of individual change, helping each learner take control of their personal safety. To achieve sustainable change, individuals need three things:<br /> Motivation to change<br /> Knowledge of how to change<br /> Sustained focus on the change<br /> ZIP brings leaders and team members through this process to help achieve lasting personal and organizational change. While each ZIP program is customized to help the organization meet its specific safety goals, each program contains some core foundational elements of the powerful curriculum.