Category: Blog

May 11, 2015
Video: Operations Manager’s Safety Leadership Journey

Video: Operations Manager’s Safety Leadership Journey

Alan Palmer, Partner at JMJ Associates, recently spoke at the annual OilGasDenmark safety conference in Esbjerg, Denmark. In the first section of this talk, Alan explores […]
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 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 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 […]
October 27, 2014
A Fatal Attraction: The Case Against Behaviour-based Safety Approaches

A Fatal Attraction: The Case Against Behavioral Safety Approaches

Professor Sidney Dekker of Griffiths University, Todd Conklin of Los Alamos Laboratory and other current thought leaders in safety rail against behavioral safety approaches. Still, behavioral […]
September 10, 2014
Why the Focus on Lagging Indicators Isn’t Working

Why the Focus on Lagging Indicators Isn’t Working

We can change our relationship to these indicators such that they are no more than a historical record, and are not taken to represent the presence […]
September 9, 2014
Addressing the 3 Biggest Challenges to Creating Strong Turnaround Safety

Addressing the 3 Biggest Challenges to Creating Strong Turnaround Safety

There is a great sense of fulfillment for the leadership when they realize they are influencing the culture (rather than at the influence of it) and […]