August 22, 2024
BEHAVIOR-BASED SAFETY Behavior-based safety is still alive and well, now at a very mature age. Finally, we’re reaching a refinement stage where BBS has become an […]
December 22, 2022
I’ve been thinking about workplace complacency and injuries a lot the last few weeks. Maybe because we are in the holiday season and injuries around this […]
November 19, 2020
I was rushed and thrown off just a bit from my normal travel routine — flying to a keynote event in French Lick, Indiana. For one, […]
April 7, 2020
In March of 2011, a nuclear meltdown in Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant occurred during a 9.0 earthquake. Within a week, the Chinese government stopped approval of […]
December 10, 2018
Hey you!” I hated hearing those words, shouted toward me from a big burly guy named, Hog Jaws! That’s right, Hog Jaws! That was my construction foreman’s […]
October 11, 2018
Twenty-five years ago, as a young safety professional, I struggled to find a set of leadership practices I could call my own. In 1996, I wrote […]
August 13, 2018
I’ve often expressed my opinion regarding the question of “what should safety professionals want from their organizational leaders?” Most organizational leaders are relatively clear about what […]
October 13, 2017
Accidents Aren’t Trick or Treat and Don’t Blame Your Workers!More than 30 years ago, one of my mentors in the graduate safety program at West Virginia […]