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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…
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Why Safety Directors Need to Become Better at Change Management
An early 1990’s study conducted within General Electric on best practices in change management showed that an initiative can fail despite a good technical solution or approach: “100% of all changes evaluated as successful had a good technical solution or approach. 98% of all changes evaluated as unsuccessful also had a good technical solution or approach.”
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How Safety Improvement Works Part 2
Continuous Improvement Through Meaningful Safety Conversations and Strategic Risk Reduction In the first article of this series, we explained the importance of safety leadership to initiate and drive safety improvement. This approach not only prevents fatalities but also creates the kind of culture that lifts business performance. In our experience, starting at the top is…
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How Safety Improvement Works
As a business leader, how would you approach a major change in business strategy? Would you delegate the topic to a functional department to create some tactical activities and implement them? Or would you discuss and align across senior leadership on vision and objectives and develop a strategy together? Probably the latter. How would you…


