When organizations openly name safety as a value, they create the conditions for what researchers call "induced hypocrisy." Far from being a weakness, that productive tension is one of the more powerful means of improvement.
At ASSP Safety in June, Assistant Secretary of Labor Keeling delivered a conversational address that signaled a cultural and operational evolution for OSHA.
Kay Yoder, Senior Vice President of EHS at Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, shares how she manages safety across an expansive North American footprint.
Recognized for his exceptional leadership and technical expertise, Wyatt Bradbury talks about modern indicator-based safety strategies and advocating for inclusive safety standards.
“Our profession's ethics canons — duty to workers, scientific integrity, transparency, independent professional judgment — get harder, not easier, when AI is in the loop."
The gap between awareness and action is not a training problem, but instead a culture problem. Culture problems always require a different set of tools than a refresher training course or a revised work procedure.