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…
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…
The Key to High-Performing and Safe Teams: Knowing People as Individuals
Read in Portuguese / Leia em português Great leaders understand that their team members are not just employees but individuals with unique experiences, motivations, and needs. This personalized approach, known by the psychological community as “Individual Consideration,” is essential for leaders who aim to build high-performing teams and improve workplace safety. When leaders take the…
The Leader’s Values and Emotional Commitment to Safety
Introduction by Rebecca Timmins Read in Portuguese / Leia em português There is an adage in coaching called the Law of Double Effect — while we judge ourselves by our efforts and intentions, others judge us by what we say and do. This makes it critical for leaders to ensure their behaviors align with their…
How Leaders Can Prevent Disasters: Learnings from NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia Failure
CNN’s four-part series, “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight,” tells the story of how a series of decisions made by competent, dedicated, and well-intentioned leaders set the stage for a safety exposure that brought down the Space Shuttle Columbia — an exposure that was not understood at the time. As an organizational psychologist, I’ve studied decision-making…
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…
