by David Sarkus | Oct 31, 2017 | motivational safety speaker, motivational safety speakers, safety, safety attitudes, safety coaching, safety consultants, Safety Culture, safety leadership safety influence safety culture safety coaching, safety speakers, safey leadership, supervisor safety training, West Virginia University
More than 30 years ago, one of my mentors in the graduate safety program at West Virginia University provided an insight that I continue to embrace. It guides much of my thinking and my actions, still today. C. Everett Marcum, often espoused his foundational belief...
by David Sarkus | Oct 5, 2017 | Safety Culture
Dear Friend and Colleague, Many of you likely have a well written vision statement for safety or at least some form of it. However, is that vision regularly expressed through your senior leaders? The most important aspects of your vision occur through the expression...
by David Sarkus | Sep 21, 2017 | safety attitudes, safety coaching, safety consultants, Safety Culture, safety leadership, safety leadership safety influence safety culture safety coaching
I really love the reality show Undercover Boss but I have to watch it alone because I often become a little weepy! I’ve gotten much softer with age. You probably know what generally happens in each show. A company executive plants himself in his own organization in...
by David Sarkus | Aug 10, 2017 | Safety Culture
Last weekend, I was riding my bicycle up a 16 mile grade near Morgantown, West Virginia. It was a long but relatively easy ride. During my trek, I began to think about organizational trust. At times, the level of trust that organizational leaders possess, relative...
by David Sarkus | Jul 26, 2017 | Safety Culture
I’ve been in safety for a long time — almost embarrassed to state how long. Well, not really. But I do have to say, I’ve been to enough “pizza parties” for various safety accomplishments. And just about everyone enjoys pizza and time spent...
by David Sarkus | Jun 20, 2017 | Safety Culture
Cognitive failures are often known as action slips, brain burps, slips in attention – mistakes that a person should not normally make (Wallace & Vodanovich, 2003). These occur as a result of faulty processes in our brain such as a lapse in attention...
