Safety

Category: Blog

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 […]
June 30, 2014
Video: Project Manager Shares Major Capital Project Safety Leadership Journey

Video: Project Manager Shares Major Capital Project Safety Leadership Journey

The Vice President of Denmark for Shell Upstream International, Ben Ring recently spoke at the Annual Offshore Safety Conference 2014 in Denmark. In this video, he […]
June 6, 2014
Construction Industry: It is No Longer Acceptable for People to Get Hurt or Killed

Construction Industry: It is No Longer Acceptable for People to Get Hurt or Killed

I spoke with JMJ co-founder Jay Greenspan about construction safety and the state of safety in the construction industry. This interview came on the heels of […]
June 18, 2013
When People Can Get Hurt, Do the Right Thing (No Exceptions)

When People Can Get Hurt, Do the Right Thing (No Exceptions)

When it comes to safety, doing the right thing may not always look like doing the thing that is going to lead to the fastest production. […]
May 28, 2013
Transforming Leaders, Transforming Organizations: An Interview with JMJ Senior Partner Rick Bair

Transforming Leaders, Transforming Organizations: An Interview with JMJ Senior Partner Rick Bair

In my last conversation with JMJ Senior Partner Rick Bair, he talked a bit about the creation and evolution of JMJ’s Incident and Injury-Free® (IIF®) safety […]