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Tribute to Paul O’​Neill

Tom Krause

Apr 18, 2020

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The greatest and most effective safety leader of our time (and hero to me) died this morning in Pittsburgh. It is a huge loss to the community of people who value organizational leadership, and in particular, workplace safety.  Paul O’Neill had more positive influence on how leaders think about workplace safety than anyone else in the past 50 years. He will be remembered for the many senior leadership roles he took on, but his legacy in the organizational world will be about the profound affect he had on safety leadership. Workplace safety wasn’t a means to an end for Mr....

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How COVID-19 Might Kill People in Ways You Didn’t Expect

Filip Coumans

Mar 24, 2020

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Introduction By now, pretty much the whole world is focusing on COVID-19. Most European countries have put in place some drastic measures flatten the curve. That is to make sure that the virus spreads slower so our healthcare system does not get overwhelmed. The most widely used strategy is ‘social distancing’, a term most of us had never heard of 2 weeks ago? This includes shutting down shops, closing factories, confining people as much as possible to their homes. Every day, we are surprised about how quickly things are happening and how we are quickly adapting to the new normal....

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Don’t Let Your Safety Scorecard be the Tail that Wags the Dog

Kristen Bell

Jun 29, 2016

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“If this happened at home, would you go to the hospital?” This was the third question that occurred to David when his warehouse manager stepped off a platform onto a loose rock and rolled his ankle. For the sake of his numbers, David was hoping the answer was “No.” David had attended incident response training and knew his first two questions needed to be “Are you okay?” and “What happened?” After that he was off script and asked whatever question came to mind. And what was top of mind for David was mitigating the impact on his safety scorecard. This...

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Raising the Bar for Leading Indicators

Kristen Bell

Feb 26, 2016

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Over the past several years many safety organizations have focused in on leading indicators. The idea is that OSHA rates are too far down the pipe to guide preventative action, so metrics reflecting earlier activity are needed to guide safety action. In concept this makes sense, but in actual practice can be flawed. A panel of experts convened by the National Safety Council’s Campbell Institute recently surveyed a group of companies asking them how they approach the development of leading indicators. Much good work has been done by these organizations and it is helpful to see it summarized. But it...

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