Our investigation process is purely reactive to undesired consequences, but our corrective action(s) process can turn it into a PROACTIVE activity. It takes a level of safety maturity to move in this direction. It will come naturally once that maturity level is reached and the workplace strongly desires (and respects) to be a LEARNING culture. …...
Corrective Actions help Incident Investigations become PROACTIVE Read More »
Safety is not the absence of Accidents. Safety is the presence of Defenses and Capacity. Dr. Todd Conklin… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Safety Thought of the Week… Safety is not the absence of Accidents Read More »
We can learn a lot from Aviation Safety! I came across this 2017 presentation on Runway Safety Trends and Runway Incursion Analysis and just loved how they analyzed their data to identify the trends, causes, and contributing factors. Some of the data may be alarming, but that is not my intent. This is how we…...
Runway Safety Trends and Runway Incursion Analysis Read More »
A recent FaceBook post by the South Dakota Highway Patrol is getting a lot of attention. The pics are alarming, to say the least. But some of the comments are an indication of where safety stands in the United States culture of safety. When people decry government intervention as “crossing a line,”… “that truck driver…...
Inspections and Audits – their roles and differences Read More »
A lot has changed over my career; some things I thought were so concrete and fundamental to OSH that they would never change. Boy, was I ever WRONG! Take, for example, the “hierarchy of controls” – quite possibly the primary building block of OSH and Industrial safety for the past 73 years. When I was…...
The “Hierarchy of Controls” in the Year 2023 Read More »
Leadership and culture are two sides of the same coin; neither can be realized without the other. Leaders create and manage the safety culture in their organizations by maintaining safety as a priority, communicating their safety expectations to the workers, setting the standard for safety, and through actions not talk (walk the talk), leading needed…...
Safety Thought of the Week… Leadership and culture are two sides of the same coin Read More »
What should happen to the small proportion of individuals whose unsafe acts are justly considered culpable? Below we summarize in a very simplified way what psychologists know about the effects of reward and punishment in the workplace. The principal issue here is the effectiveness of “sticks and carrots” in enhancing the likelihood of desired behavior…...
Which is more effective at changing behaviors and decision making? Read More »
In today’s work environment, many management teams need some guidance on determining if an unsafe act warrants re-training, accountability, or it was a system-induced error. Here is a simple flow chart that can help establish what type of action could be called for based on the facts from the investigation…. Membership Required You must be...
A tool to help determine culpability of unsafe acts Read More »
Let the official record show… the term “just culture” originated in 1990’s from none other than Dr. James Reason. So all of these consultants using LinkedIn as their marketing platform, decrying a “just culture” is nothing new! Most of us have been simply managing our safety and health efforts with the WORKERS who do the…...
Creating a “Just Culture” is nothing new Read More »
Leadership and culture are two sides of the same coin; neither can be realized without the other. Leaders create and manage the culture in their organizations by maintaining safety as a VALUE, communicating their safety expectations to the workers, setting the standard for safety through actions, not talk (walk the talk), and leading needed change…...
Leadership’s role in Safety Management System Read More »
If your management is only reactive to an accident, it is probably a built-in response because all the safety metrics are reactionary as well. When the sole safety metric is an injury rate, events that do not impact that injury rate do not garner a management response simply because they did not move the needle…...
Safety is a losing game when measured with lagging indicators Read More »
Now keep in mind this is a child in the video. But that does not mean adults would not do something similar after watching a co-worker successfully pull it off! After all, MOST, if not all, unsafe acts are learned actions from co-workers. So watch this short video, as painful as it may be to…...
Is this an Error, Mistake, or Violation? (Reason’s Human Failure Model) Read More »
