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September 4, 2026
Discover how cultivating a robust safety culture through impactful leadership can significantly reduce workplace incidents and improve compliance in high-risk industries. Explore strategies from expert safety leadership speakers and consultants that inspire operational excellence and a commitment to safety-first practices.
November 29, 2025
I’ll admit it, I’m a pistachio NUT. Once I start, it’s hard to stop. And to slow down, I usually buy the shelled variety. But there’s […]
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 […]
July 31, 2019
The knowledge gap within utilities, construction, and related industries is more of a growing concern than ever — especially when it comes to serious injuries and […]
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 […]
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 […]
May 24, 2018
Safety troughing, and plateauing should be scary for most of us. Of course, many individuals may get concerned when lagging indicators, like recordable injury or illness […]
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 […]
October 5, 2017
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 […]
September 21, 2017
Leadership Lessons from Undercover BossI really love the reality show Undercover Boss but I have to watch it alone because I often become a little weepy! […]
August 10, 2017
What Does Trust Look Like in Your Organization? Last weekend, I was riding my bicycle up a 16 mile grade near Morgantown, West Virginia. It was […]
July 26, 2017
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 […]