A seatbelt is a tool for safety. It is designed, constructed, installed, and at the ready for use. Its cost, availability, and ease of proper use may be the greatest safety invention of our generation. But it’s a tool that requires the human to have the desire to use it. It provides ZERO benefit if…...
It’s not all that difficult. It won’t break the bank; in fact, it can improve productivity and reduce costs when done well. But it demands a desire to do what is right for the men and women doing our dirty and dangerous work. Without the desire for greatness in safety from the most senior leaders…...
Since I was a student in safety at MSU, there has been a “Risk Model” that depicts a zoo worker feeding a lion in its cage. This model has been revised many times, but it does a great job of providing a visual display of how risk can change based on how the “system” is…...
A team of auditors identified a potential risk associated with bypassed safety devices and inconsistent interpretation of regulations after multiple incidents of noncompliance were issued, associated with the operator’s failure to comply with 30 CFR 250.869 and 30 CFR 250.870 in 2025. The BSEE Performance-Based Risk Inspection (PBRI) covered five assets (all production platforms) in…...
The NSC Safety and Health Maturity Assessment is a free tool that helps organizations identify where they are on their safety journey and offers next steps to improve safety. Please take 15 minutes to complete the assessment, then share your feedback via a short survey. CLICK HERE… Membership Required You must be a member to...
If you don’t know me and are confused as to what makes me tick as a safety pro… it’s data! And not just any data – VERFIED AND VALIDATED DATA! And this leads me to “on-line reviews”. I hear a lot of people refer to these on-line reviews about vacation rentals, restaurants, and products. They…...
If the company leadership team, including the Board of Directors (BOD), cannot explicitly state what they want from the EHS team and what level of performance they wish to achieve, then we are being set up to fail. I am amazed at how a leadership team will claim a multi-million-dollar project was a “safety project”…...
Recently, I visited an old client after a long absence. As I pulled into the parking lot, I immediately noticed the upgrade to the freshly paved and striped parking lot. My last visit, years earlier, I ended up parking in a crater in a gravel lot that some smaller cars would not have been able…...
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…...
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...
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…...
Look closely at this mobile work cabinet and see if you can identify the “error trap.” The answer is two parts…… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
