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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 17, 2014
Creating a Legacy: Coaching Leaders to Achieve Lasting, Exceptional Organizational Performance

Creating a Legacy: Coaching Leaders to Achieve Lasting, Exceptional Organizational Performance

People laughed when someone in our workshop said he didn’t want the project to be remembered—projects tend to be remembered for all kinds of bad things […]
May 27, 2014
TCO Holds First Incident and Injury-Free

TCO Holds First Incident and Injury-Free™ (IIF™) Forum

AUSTIN, TEXAS, May 27, 2014—Tengizchevroil (TCO) held its inaugural Incident and Injury-Free® (IIF®) Forum, hosting IIF support teams from several major and minor capital projects. The […]
December 10, 2013
The First Lesson in Smart Management

The First Lesson in Smart Management

In the business world, we are enamored with leadership. (A search for “Business Leadership” in Google gets 907,000,000 results.) The consensus opinion is that, “If only […]
October 31, 2013
GASCO and JMJ to Share Learnings from Habshan 5 Safety Culture at the 16th ADIPEC Conference

GASCO and JMJ to Share Learnings from Habshan 5 Safety Culture at the 16th ADIPEC Conference

AUSTIN, TEXAS, October 31, 2013—On November 12, 2013, Mustafa Ishaq, GASCO Habshan 5 Project Manager and JMJ Senior Consultant Rami Majaj will discuss, “Promoting Safety Culture: […]