Mike Goddu

Author: Mike Goddu

May 20, 2015
Safety Leadership: Bringing Awareness and Perspective to Safety Management

Safety Leadership: Bringing Awareness and Perspective to Safety Management

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability […]
April 27, 2015
Safety Leadership: How to Achieve New Levels of Safety Performance

Safety Leadership: How to Achieve New Levels of Safety Performance

In my recent blogs on “Evolving Beyond Behaviourism,” I make several assertions in regards to companies and sites that have enjoyed safety success, yet are stalled […]
March 19, 2015

JMJ to Host ‘Leading Safety Differently’ in Brisbane with Sidney Dekker

Join JMJ for a provocative discussion and lunch where Mike Goddu, co-founder of JMJ Associates and best-selling author Professor Sidney Dekker, will explore how we can […]
March 11, 2015
Monadelphous Achieves Triple Figures for Days Without Injury

Monadelphous Achieves Triple Figures for Days Without Injury

Engineering group Monadelphous achieved triple figures for Days Without Injury after taking on the Incident and Injury-Free™ (IIF™) safety approach while responsible for all critical utilities […]
March 6, 2015
Safety Leadership: Taking a Stand to Reverse Declining Safety Performance

Safety Leadership: Taking a Stand to Reverse Declining Safety Performance

Give me a lever and a place to stand and I can change the world.
January 21, 2015
More Prediction and Control Will Not Break Our Flat-line Safety Results

More Prediction and Control will not Break our Flat-line Safety Results

An oft-heard phrase in forward-looking companies is, “We are on a safety journey,” which I applaud. Readers of this blog column have joined a conversation that […]
December 12, 2014
Safety: Over Managed and Under Led

Safety Cultures: Over Managed and Under Led

I assert that focusing on the behavior of and pronouncing judgment on the worker prevented the critical learning for the people at the root cause: leadership […]
November 12, 2014
Host Safety Differently with Sidney Dekker

JMJ to Host ‘Safety Differently’ with Sidney Dekker

Join JMJ for a provocative discussion and lunch where best-selling author of Drift to Failure Professor Sidney Dekker and JMJ co-founder Mike Goddu will explore how […]
November 5, 2014
What Tennis Reveals About the Limits of Behaviour-based Safety

What Tennis Reveals About the Limits of Behavior-based Safety

Organisations that have invested in behavioural-based programs to improve safety performance have reaped benefits, but the benefits have flat-lined. It is time to evolve. I believe […]