Company Values (Virtue Signaling – Humor Video)
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Safety Thought of the Week… Not knowing is powerful
The last few weeks I have been sharing passages from Dr. Todd Conklin’s books. And I could not agree more with 99% of what he teaches. This week is one of those 1%’ers… I believe that a GREAT Safety Management System (SMS) will in fact help organizations “learn” from accidents. Starting with a well established…...
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Safety Thought of the Week… People do not just become stupid
We must battle the need to believe that when a worker has some type of bad outcome, that adverse outcome happens because the worker becamemomentarily incompetent. Our thinking is driven by a bias toward bad things happening because someone did something bad. The bias that worker became stupid is really a strong force in how…...
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Some great safety advice for the C-Suite (Video)
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Safety Thought of the Week… We have to STOP saying, “You can’t fix stupid” (Dr. Todd Conklin)
I hate the phrase, “you can’t fix stupid.” It is offensive and mean; most importantly, that phrase is just wrong. Stop saying it. Stop using this phrase right now. “You can’t fix stupid” is serving you and your organization poorly. It colors your thinking, it makes you stop investigations too early, it sounds like something…...
If your organization is influenced by all the political winds shifting in DC and within OSHA…
THEN THE ORGANIZATION IS DOING SAFETY ALL WRONG in the Year 2025! ➡️ OSHA compliance is the “baby steps” of safety. It’s our foundation. If the business is over 10 or older, OSHA compliance efforts should be HISTORY in 2025. ➡️ Complying with OSHA/Government MINIMUM safety standards is NOT making “Safety a Priority” or “Safety…...
If it (safety) was easy, everyone would be good at it
A mentor of mine had this sign in his office, and every time I complained about a lack of commitment to safety, he would either hand me a Job Application to McDonald’s or point to this sign. If we think about it, it fits so many management teams today. I look back on my former…...
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CSX Transportation Safety Culture Assessment Report
The FRA report is a shining example of how a CEO can impact the culture within an organization. CEO Joe Hinrich has made a huge impact at CSX in all aspects, but what he’s done for safety sets him apart. For the FRA to call his work out in their Cultural Assessment is unique across…...
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Safety Thought of the Week… Trevor Kletz on “Organizational Failures”
The accidents described in this chapter are not due to a fifth type of error. They are due to the failure of senior managers to realize that they could do more to prevent accidents. They are thus mainly due to lack of training, but some may be due to lack of ability and a few…...
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Safety Thought of the Week… interaction between the technical and social aspects of the system
A point has been reached in the development of technology where the greatest dangers stem not so much from the breakdown of a major component or from isolated operator errors, as from the insidious accumulation of delayed-action human failures occurring primarily within the organizational and managerial sectors. These residual problems do not belong exclusively to…...
Safety Thought of the Week… Old View vs New View in Human Factors
Human factors, as we know it today, got its inspiration from these basic ideas about human error. It then showed something different: an alternative way of looking at human error. As a result, there are basically two ways of looking at human error today. We can see human error as a cause of failure, or…...
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