Category: Blog

August 21, 2015
Safety Leadership: What If

Safety Leadership: What If

What if we spent a lot less on measuring and parsing injuries and incidents and put that investment into building robust capability and response?
July 15, 2015
Safety Leadership (Not Behaviour-Based Safety) is the Pathway to Change Worker Behaviour

Safety Leadership (Not Behavior-Based Safety) is the Pathway to Change Worker Behaviour

What if people in your organization became the engine of learning for your company, not the engine of productivity? What if the extraordinary leadership historically focused […]
July 8, 2015
Safety Moment: Fatalities in the Bakken Oil Fields—Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Safety Moment: Fatalities in the Bakken Oil Fields—Are We Asking the Right Questions?

And now that the price of crude has collapsed, many in the Bakken fear that the pressure to put speed before safety will only increase.” – […]
June 18, 2015
Australia and Korea: the Drive for Production Could Continue to Produce Tragic Consequences

Australia and Korea: the Drive for Production Could Continue to Produce Tragic Consequences

In the next month, Mike Goddu will be speaking to audiences in Perth, Australia and Seoul, Korea on Leading Safety Differently. Here he explores these two […]
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 […]
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 […]