Items Tagged with 'Safety excellence'

Pat Cunningham from BROWZ asks “How are smaller companies – with limited resources – able to embrace the management system approach to safety?”

Richard Cerenzio from ISN shares his story of how a purple octopus helped reduce hand-related injuries at one company.

Bryan Trotter from Microsoft asks, “Should the impact of a company safety program stop at the corporate “fence line,” or does a more holistic approach make sense and then become expected by shareholders and customers?”

Can safety professionals borrow a methodology from art history to help improve hazard identification? Adam Levine from the Toledo Museum of Art discusses “teaching the ability to see.”

Kristen Simon from Norfolk Southern Corp. offers her advice on “avoiding the yets” – curtailing behaviors that are unsafe but have not yet resulted in injury.

Joe Stough from IHS explains how to find the right leading indicators to drive organizational behaviors and conditions that result in improved safety performance.

Joe Stough from IHS explains how leading indicators often are not vetted with data or analytics, comparing the issue to “a doctor prescribing drugs that have not been proven to work.”

Are you perceived as a leader who integrates safety into your day-to-day activities and the decisions you make? Or do you sometimes inadvertently convey that safety adds time and costs to a task or process? Pete Batrowny from AES Corp. asks leaders to reflect honestly on the types of messages they send to employees.

Al Zucco from USG Corp. discusses three pillars that help engage all stakeholders in sustainability and reminds us that safety is the cornerstone of what all organizations do.

Cary Usrey from Predictive Solutions discusses how “safety traditionally looks at one metric – injuries – to answer the question, ‘Is it safe?’” and why that may not be enough.