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Organizations with good safety cultures consider failures and “near misses” as lessons that can be used to avoid more serious events. There is thus a strong drive to ensure that all events which have the potential to be instructive are reported and investigated to discover the root causes and that timely feedback is given on the findings and remedial actions, both to the work groups involved...
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Well-tested systems relying on in-depth defenses and supported by procedural requirements will protect employees and the public from OSH hazards. It is easy, therefore, for the workforce to develop the attitude that safe conditions are provided for them by others and that events at other plants are exceptional and isolated and could not occur at their plant. It is, therefore, essential that everyone...
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Management systems require clearly written procedures that are fit for their purpose of controlling all aspects of safety. However, there is a great difference between having excellent procedures on paper and having procedures that are understood and applied consistently and conscientiously by all staff. There is a need for balance in the number and extent of procedures. They should identify and address...
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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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