How Business Decisions Can Drive Unsafe Work
Learn about the dangerous, hidden risks embedded in decision-making that force tradeoffs between safety and productivity.
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Working with Contractors for Sustainable SIF Prevention
Part 4 in a Series About Involving and Engaging Contractors in SIF Prevention Every organization striving to eliminate Serious Incidents and Fatalities (SIFs) in a sustainable manner needs a continuous improvement process that is self-sustaining. Serious incidents and fatalities are too important to rely on an individual champion, an initiative that can change, or a…
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Partnering with Contractors for People-Centered SIF Prevention
Part 3 in a Series about Involving and Engaging Contractors in SIF Prevention Client–contractor relationships can be tricky. People tend to agree that when it works, it has a positive impact on safety, budget, quality, deadlines, and more—but making it work is messy. The Challenge of Owner-Contractor Relationships There’s no single reason why owner-contractor relationships…
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Establishing an Effective Contractor Safety Management System
Part 2 in a Series About Involving and Engaging Contractors in SIF Prevention Contractor Safety Management System Overview To ensure compliance with safety standards and procedures, a solid and well-implemented contractor safety management (CSM) system is needed. The success of the CSM system is determined by the quality of preparation and execution. Effective contractor partnerships…
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Defining the Challenge of Engaging Contractors in SIF Prevention
Part 1 in a Series About Involving and Engaging Contractors in SIF Prevention Introduction: Involvement, Challenges, and Solutions It is common practice to work with contractors for construction and industrial capital projects, but there are other areas that do this as well. Industrial operations and the mining industry also outsource both core and non-core activities…
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Beyond the Surface: Unlocking Systemic Insights Through Better Root Cause Analysis
When people are injured at work, investigations often rely on root cause analysis tools like the “5 Whys” or the “Ishikawa Fishbone” model to understand why the injuries happened and how to prevent them from happening again. While these methods can shine light on contributing factors, the way they are used tends to oversimplify complex…
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Detecting the Signal Inside the Noise of Safety Statistics
Executive Summary Safety statistics provide valuable insight into safety, systems, processes, tools, and operations, but leveraging them can be challenging: Applying five key principles can help any leader harness the power of statistics to achieve significant improvements in safety and organizational functioning. Making Sense of Safety Statistics Mark Twain once said, “There are three kinds…
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Mastering Safety Leadership: How Front-Line Leadership Decision-Making Prevents Serious and Fatal Injuries
In 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
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Augmenting HOP to Elevate Safety Excellence
Introduction: 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….
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O Papel Crítico da Liderança em Segurança: Uma perspectiva fundamentada na experiência
Read 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…
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The Critical Role of Safety Leadership: A Perspective Grounded in Experience
Read 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…
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Why Don’t Safety Initiatives Generate Results?
The role of Change Management in HSE Many companies complain about the bureaucracy created by governments as this results in huge financial and workload issues for them. Many hours are spent on mandatory reporting which is not used for improvement. Even worse, it’s often not being looked at by authorities. Central safety functions within large…
