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To perform a safety culture survey, a business does not need to spend tens of thousands of dollars on some external consulting company. Here are just seven (7) questions that need to be asked and discussed at the highest levels of the organization.
Get ready, as these will generate a lot of emotions as senior management looks into the mirror of the culture they have created and cultivated....
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Organizations typically go through several phases in developing and strengthening safety culture. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) identifies three (3) stages:
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Transactional Analysis is a valuable approach to the understanding of human behavior and action. Developed by Dr. Eric Berne, author of the book, “Games people play”
While we communicate with others, we share not only facts & information, but also emotions, values, benefits & traditions. So the starting point of all engagements is:
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What’s more culturally dangerous?
A manager/Supervisor who is unable to identify at-risk behavior
A manager/Supervisor who can identify at-risk behavior but turns a blind eye to it
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I was first exposed to the “The Warm Fuzzy Tale” by Claude M. Steiner (1969) in my first organizational psychology course at Murray State Univesity in 1990. At the time, with zero actual field experience in safety, I thought it was hyperbole, academic nonsense, etc. But once I got into fieldwork, beginning with my first internship, I began to see the point the tale was...
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One of my favorite safety sayings came from Dr. William (Bill) Corcoran from the USA’s Nuclear Safety Program. He firmly believed that latent failures were more to blame for accidents than human errors. And he proved this over a distinguished career of 50+ years in nuclear engineering with a major slant towards nuclear safety through engineering. I use many of his sayings/phrases...
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Whenever I think about Routine and Situational violations, my mind goes back to my childhood days when Life cereal came out. The commercial involved two older kids talking about the cereal, and neither wanted to try it. And there sat little Mikey, so they pushed the bowl over to Mikey and said, “let’s get Mikey to try it.”
Hence, I ask, does your workplace have a Mikey?
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In his 2018 book, Risk-Based Thinking – Managing the Uncertainty of Human Error in Operations, Muschara has a passage that hits a home run in how human error is viewed in American society and why this view of human error is so difficult to break through… (p.39)
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We have all heard the story of the three little pigs and their construction decisions impacting their futures. It is a sad fable that needs to be told often and even to adults who do not understand “latent failures”! But in this article, I want to have you think about three (3) mountains an organization MUST climb to change how safety is managed in the workplace fundamentally. ...
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I am betting most everyone has heard the old phrase, “that’s an accident waiting to happen.” My brother (also a safety engineer) and I have pondered whether our father, who used that phrase often, influenced our career choices more than we had ever imagined. But how many safety professionals understand what this phrase is saying?
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Think about it… Here are the ten (10) elements of your SMS. Of course, we want all 10 to perform in the bulls-eye, but we know safety is a continuous improvement project that takes years. Which process (Target A or Target B) is more advanced, more capable of achieving the desired results, and the one easiest to get to the “bulls-eye”? (Image is from James Reason’s Human Err...
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We see it just about every day; heck, we even see it with safety people… not properly rolling, lifting, inserting, and holding their hearing protection as they insert them. But noise is a “chronic” hazard and thus far too many workplaces fail to respect it. Unfortunately, in the vast majority of projects, we have completed for clients, engineering controls was by far the...
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