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 […]
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 […]
June 25, 2019
In my early 20s, I was working as a laborer on a construction site when I heard a story about a worker who jumped into a […]
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 […]
May 19, 2018
Expectations often say more about the leader than the follower. Various forms of research suggest that when leaders have higher types of expectations for their followers, […]
March 6, 2018
Dear Friend and Colleague, In your training, you should work toward impacting each of the three domains of attitude formation for your leaders and learners, so […]
December 19, 2017
Leaders Need to Wallow with Their PeopleWhen I speak to leaders, I often tell a story related to GE’s former CEO, Jack Welch. Although Welch was […]
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 […]