This comprehensive presentation includes practical tips for hiring and retaining top performers who contribute positively to your workplace safety programs. Based on decades of research into behavior psychology, the presentation takes you through the process of leveraging personality risk assessments to hire safer employees, leading to a reduction in incidents. Addressing Safety in the Hiring Process is recommended for any Hiring or Human Resources Manager in safety-sensitive workplaces that may be experiencing: - Above average employee turnover - Low employee engagement - Labor shortages - Poor employee fit You can learn more about TalentClick's personality assessments on our website http://www.talentclick.com/

1. ADDRESSING SAFETY IN THE
HIRING PROCESS
UNDERSTANDING PERSONALITY RISK
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2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Improve your chances with data
• What kind of data to use?
• Why use data?
• Hiring for safety
• Personal Action Plan
• What is learned?
• The next step
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Understand People. Reduce Risk.

3. INTRODUCTION
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to
drive down a country road at night with no
lights while looking out the back window”
-- Peter Drucker, Management Guru
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4. INTRODUCTION
• Most interviewers trust their
gut instinct
• Hiring based purely on an
interview achieves a 50%
success rate
• Success = “Would you hire
this person again?”
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5. IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES WITH DATA
Personality assessments are not a silver bullet that will fix everything. They will,
however, cause a huge incremental gain that most companies will embrace.
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6. • For decades, generic personality
assessments have been used for
“white-collar” jobs
• A personality report provides hiring
managers insight into
– Who they are interviewing
– How that person is likely to perform
– How to train, coach, and manage
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WHAT KIND OF DATA TO USE?

7. • New trend towards specialized
personality assessments
• Designed for front-line workers
in “blue-collar” environments
where safety is a concern
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WHAT KIND OF DATA TO USE?

8. • Determine which workers have
high-risk personalities
• Personality assessments can
reduce incident rates
• Lower incident rates can lead to
a direct impact in profitability
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WHY USE DATA?

9. • Increase chances of
successfully hiring top
performers
• Prevent harm and increase
productivity
• Understand how to deal with
different personality types
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WHY USE DATA?

10. HIRING FOR SAFETY
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11. There are three (3) practical uses
for personality assessments:
1) • Screening applicants
2) • Interviewing candidates
3) • Onboarding new hires
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HIRING FOR SAFETY

12. • Help reduce workload of hiring
managers
• Eliminate those who would not qualify in
later stages
• Safety can also be considered along
with skills, experience, and abilities
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SCREENING APPLICANTS

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SCREENING APPLICANTS
The next slide shows a table that provides an illustration of a screening
matrix for safety-related competencies.
Technical skills, knowledge, education, and work experience should be
added to complete the puzzle.

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SCREENING APPLICANTS
The previous matrix is simply a yardstick; it helps leaders quantifiably
measure which candidates possess the soft skills to move along the
interview stage.
After all, if you can’t measure it you can’t improve it.

16. • A data-driven interview should assess
self-awareness around safety-related
safety-related behaviours
• Listen for phrases like:
– “I can’t believe I did that”
– “I caught myself taking a shortcut”
– “I saw myself doing the same thing over and
over”
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INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES

17. • Notice the use of the pronoun “I” in
the previous examples
• It’s as if a self-aware person is
observing themselves through a
video camera
• A video camera that plays in real
time to show self-errors
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INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES

18. • When one observes their actions,
they have more control over intent
behind the action
• Recognizing when we are slipping
back into old unsafe habits can
cause a launchpad for change
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INTERVIEWING CANDIDATES

19. • Personal injury risk is highest in first
three (3) months
• Most companies have new workers
learn through formalized safety
training
• A one-size-fits-all program ignores
learning style, attitudes, and
perceptions
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ONBOARDING NEW HIRES

20. • Progressive organizations
encourage workers to complete a
Personal Action Plan
• Workers must consider their own
Safety Self-Awareness
• They must be aware and take
control of their own safety
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ONBOARDING NEW HIRES

21. • Goal of process is empowering workers
to monitor behavior and make safety
choices
• Responsibility is shifted from the
employer to the employee
• 4 simple steps to create a shift in
responsibility
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PERSONAL ACTION PLAN

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How It Works
PERSONAL ACTION PLAN
New worker
completes
action plan
Worker sets
goals and
commits to
safer
behaviors
Periodically
review plan
and identify
gaps between
goals and
actual
behavior
If an incident
occurs, plan is
re-visited with
supervisor and
re-evaluated

23. • Personality assessments provide
insight into:
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1)
• How an employee is likely
to perform on the job
2)
• How managers can
manage that employee
PERSONAL ACTION PLAN

24. • Many employees have epiphanies when
completing the action plan
• Action plan analyzes who they are and what
makes them tick
• Team understanding, cohesion, and efficiency
is streamlined due to individual knowledge
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WHAT IS LEARNED?

25. • Arms front-line supervisor with a
practical performance-management
tool
• Learn how to effectively lead people
and increase team cohesion to aid
team efficiency
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WHAT IS LEARNED?

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“I look at this like any other tool I provide to the
guys: hard hats, vests, gloves. We can’t make
every single one of them use this. But enough of
them will that it will make a difference”
-- Christian Jostlein, Safety Director
WHAT IS LEARNED?

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THE NEXT STEP
Learn more and register for a free trial of the
Safety Self-Awareness System™ today!
Visit http://www.talentclick.com/free-trial/

28. SAVE TIME, MONEY, AND LIVES
REGISTER FOR A FREE TRIAL OF THREE (3) SAFETY
SOLUTIONS!
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Visit http://www.talentclick.com/free-trial/ for your free trial of
the Safety Self-Awareness System™ today!

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