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Mastering Safety Leadership: How Front-Line Leadership Decision-Making Prevents Serious and Fatal Injuries
• July 2, 2025In 1979, my first safety improvement client told me, “We understand the engineering side, but we don’t understand the behavioral side.” Having studied behavioral analysis in graduate school, I welcomed the opportunity to address this problem. At that time, I didn’t know that Procter & Gamble was working on a similar initiative, or that Dr. Judy Komaki had just published an article on the application of behavioral science principles to safety. This work marked the beginning of what came to be known as behavior-based safety -
Augmenting HOP to Elevate Safety Excellence
• June 23, 2025Introduction: The Evolution of HOP in Safety Excellence Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) emerged in the 1990s as a welcome new way of thinking about injury prevention. Initially outlined by Dr. Sidney Dekker and Dr. James Reason, HOP has, for many organizations, become a cornerstone of safety strategies globally. HOP’s core principles grew from Dr…. -
From Reactive to Proactive: The Power of Dashboards for Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) Prevention.
• June 16, 2025In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, safety management too often relies on lagging indicators—metrics that tell us what went wrong after an incident has occurred. While important, this focus is not particularly good at preventing the next serious injury or fatality. What if your safety management system could shift the focus from reacting to incidents to… -
O Papel Crítico da Liderança em Segurança: Uma perspectiva fundamentada na experiência
• April 14, 2025Read in English Por meio de nossa experiência combinada de mais de seis décadas no campo da segurança, percebemos que muitas organizações acreditam que os departamentos de segurança e os profissionais de segurança que trabalham neles são os únicos responsáveis pela segurança dos trabalhadores. Embora os profissionais de segurança certamente tragam conhecimentos e habilidades técnicas… -
The Critical Role of Safety Leadership: A Perspective Grounded in Experience
• April 3, 2025Read in Portuguese / Leia em português Through our combined experience of over six decades in the safety field, we have noticed many organizations believe that safety departments and the safety professionals who work in them are solely responsible for the safety of workers. While safety professionals certainly bring valuable technical knowledge and skills to… -
Why Safety Procedures Don’t Always Lead to Safe Behaviors
• March 20, 2025For most of the last 70 years or so safety leaders have emphasized the importance of safety-related behavior. On the surface, it seems obvious that their approach is the right way to think about it. Following a safety breach, the line of questioning centers around why the incident happened. And the answer usually comes down… -
Getting to “Yes.” 10 Questions to Ask About your SIF Elimination Plan
• March 10, 2025Eliminating serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) in an organization is difficult and takes collaboration across all organizational levels and all work areas. A good plan makes things easier to accomplish – even if you need to flex once you start executing the work! Start building your plan by asking these 10 questions. They may appear… -
What You Need to Build Smart Teams to Eliminate SIFs
• March 6, 2025Read in Portuguese / Leia em português Introduction Eliminating Serious Incidents and Fatalities (SIF) requires a couple of key elements: This article talks about the third and final element. Solving problems, using the data and knowledge available within your organization. Great teams are the backbone of every safe and successful organization. Research over the past…
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Organizational Decision Making for Safety: Part 2
When we think about the sheer numbers of decisions made by leaders the task of improving them all seems quite daunting. The study identified a subset of decisions which had the greatest impact on 60 serious and fatal events. This article outlines an improvement strategy for organizations based on the findings.
Organizational Decision Making for Safety: Part 1
The notion that leadership matters to organizational safety is intuitive for most people. Despite this understanding, safe decision making is an aspect of leadership that has not received enough attention.
