Articles & Blogs by Laura Fiffick

The Leader’s Mandate: Prevent Serious Injuries and Fatalities

Categorized under: Serious Injuries & Fatalities

Tagged as: SIF potential, SIF precursor, SIF prevention

In 2017, the number of fatal workplace injuries in the United States dropped—but only by one percent. According to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a total of 5,147 workers suffered a fatal injury in their workplace that year. That was an improvement compared to the previous four years, but in the big picture the workplace fatality count is still significantly higher than the lowest recorded numbers set back in the year 2013. The non-fatal incident rate continues to decline, yet the fatality rate has stagnated. As safety leaders, we still have a lot of work...

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Safety, Culture & Business Risk: What’s the Connection?

Categorized under: Improvement Strategy, Safety Culture

When Dr. Thomas Krause and Kristen Bell wrote 7 Insights into Safety Leadership, we were explicitly writing about personal safety within the workplace. We recognized that the insights would apply very well to other types of risks, but we did not focus on those applications directly. We didn’t treat the broad topic of business risk at all. Yet every one of our clients is in the risk management business, and from time to time they ask about our view on the connection between safety and business risk. Not Interchangeable Let’s be clear: One cannot replace “personal safety” with “business safety” in...

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