Safety Management System

Industrial Safety can be explained in two (2) simple aspects

Industrial Safety can be explained in two (2) simple aspects: 1) Culture/Management 2) Technical Safety Culture/Management is simply stated as MANAGEMENT OWNS and DRIVES safety. Without this aspect, the quality of the safety process means very little. Technical Safety is the QUALITY of the Safety Management System and its ability to meet the expectations that…...

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Outsourcing Responsibility: Explosion at Optima Belle (CSB Video)

A CSB safety video on its investigation into the fatal December 8, 2020, explosion at the Optima Belle chemical facility in Belle, West Virginia…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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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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