Shawn Galloway is CEO of ProAct Safety, and an author of several books. In this podcast episode, he talks about the six relationships that are vital to foster at work for safety excellence. He has helped hundreds of organizations within various industries to improve safety strategy, culture, leadership and engagement.

Discretionary effort is vital to achieving and sustaining safety excellence. A culture of have-to will barely meet compliance and tends to result in more avoidance behavior than excellence or continuous improvement-seeking behavior. Galloway says, if creating a culture of safety excellence is even a remote objective, we need the discretionary thoughts and actions of leaders and employees to make this destination a reality.

Galloway is passionate about improving engagement and safety culture for employees and employers. The six relationships he outlines in the podcast and video clip are vital to foster at work if employers desire leaders and employees to want to bring their best selves to work and truly give 100 percent.

He also talks about what has changed since COVID-19 hit, and why it’s important today more than every to build relationships that benefit everyone.

Galloway’s engagement spectrum shows that being present is right in the middle, and disengagement quickly becomes uninterested to apathetic and on to disdainful. He talks about how when engagement moves in the other direction, it goes from interested to buy-in to willing participation and on to self-ownership, and finally shared ownership. The relationship someone has with these six Ps (see Galloway’s chart) is what is necessary to increase engagement in others at work.