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“Employee well-being and psychological safety is as important as ensuring people are physically safe on the job,” says Lorraine M. Martin, president and CEO of the National Safety Council.

Aligning these three disciplines is “a fresh approach to safety leadership that will take safety to the next level,” say Colin Duncan and Joseph Pitman from SEAM Group.

“It’s the components of your training program that ultimately ensure its success or failure,” says safety professional Daniel J. Snyder, who offers advice on ensuring employees are adequately trained.

“Adding new activities to our safety regimen that sync well with our existing efforts may make risk more visible and help curb SIF incidents,” says Gary A. Higbee, president and CEO of Higbee & Associates Inc.

“I want to continue discussing a systems approach in all my circles, but I also want to encourage a more equal human approach,” says Tim Page-Bottorff, senior consultant at SafeStart.

“Safety-related feedback is critical to support safe behavior and correct at-risk behavior,” says Krista S. Geller, president of GellerAC4P, who discusses the concept of “actively caring for people.”

“In our consulting work, we routinely see companies simply aiming programs at problems instead of developing strategy,” says Shawn M. Galloway, president of ProAct Safety. He identifies 10 common problems.

“What is safe? The answer may not be as simple as you think,” says Corrie Pitzer, CEO and founder of SAFEmap International, who explains why safety pros need to become “risk competent.”

“When a CAVE person becomes unruly, it’s simply a tactic to throw you off your game,” says J. Kevin Cobb, senior consultant with SafeStart, who offers tools you can use when “citizens against virtually everything” disrupt your meetings and training sessions.

“Taking safety and health to the next level can’t be done with intellectual intelligence alone,” says Eldeen Pozniak, director of Pozniak Safety Associates, who discusses why “the more we understand other people and their definitions of the world and safety, the stronger our empathy, self-regulation, motivation and social skills will be.”