Safety Management System

A Safer Tomorrow: New Jersey’s Success in Reducing Workplace Injuries

The SOII program is a key component in providing essential data and insights to support these initiatives as it tracks workplace incidents across industries and occupations, documenting their frequency, characteristics, and impact on workers. This comprehensive data collection enables meaningful industry comparisons and reveals safety trends. Government agencies and industry leaders rely on these insights…...

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Global Engagement Falls for the Second Time Since 2009 (Gallup Poll)

Low employee engagement is holding back global worker productivity, according to Gallup’s latest State of the Global Workplace report. Global employee engagement and employee wellbeing have generally risen over the past decade. But both fell in 2024, which has implications for corporate productivity, innovation and performance. Here’s what leaders need to know from Gallup’s latest…...

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A Culture of Safety_the endless journey_2025

I have uploaded one of my more popular “culture” presentations/exercises I do with senior leaders and their safety leaders. It is a 2-day “reflective” workshop that intends to identify opportunities to improve the culture around safety at an organization. Experienced safety leaders can facilitate this exercise in-house and gain a lot of traction in putting…...

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Maybe I’m just old school

Maybe I’m just old school, but I have seen a strong focus on the safety fundamentals make tremendous progress in both performance and culture. Once we have milked the fundamentals for all they have to offer, then (maybe) our management system and culture will have matured to a point where we could manage a nice…...

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Stefan Kühl’s metaphor, the Safety Theater

Inspired by Stefan Kühl’s metaphor, the Safety Theater is a stage where people in an organization play their parts. From left to right:(1) A worker in full PPE flashes a big smile for the audit,(2) A corporate safety manager holds up a script labeled “Zero Harm”,(3) Backstage, a couple of managers whisper warnings about the…...

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Failing to control flammable vapor results in severe injuries for by-stander (video)

A video I posted over two years ago has come full circle. A citizen (some may call him homeless) was allowed to sit (and smoke) within 20′ of a gasoline tanker unloading operation at a gas station. His actions may not have been his sole demise, as we can see in the video evidence that…...

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Safety and the “Stroop Effect”

If you have read any of my posts about safety management and what a safety management system should look like, you know I am all about “walking the talk” and how this simple failure of the senior leadership team is the most effective manner of destroying TRUST and CREDIBILITY within the safety movement. Workers, especially…...

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I have uploaded my “Culture of Safety” presentations to the Document Library

I have uploaded both my 2023-2024 and the 2025 editions of the PowerPoint presentations “Culture of Safety”. These are the presentations I use at the C-Suite Level and when presenting at Company EHS Conferences. Feel free to revise to meet your needs. The presentations were developed using materials from OSHA, The UK’s HSE, and Scotland’s…...

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Safety Thought of the Week… Are you building bridges or moats

The recent news of Boeing announcing its selection for the Chief Aerospace Safety Officer who has been an executive with over 36+ years with the company. He is not a safety professional nor did the announcement indicate any specialized training or experience in building a culture of safety or even rebuilding a Safety Management System…...

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