Articles Tagged with ''safety leadership''

Predictive Solutions, the leader in predicting workplace injuries, announced today that Chuck Pettinger, Ph.D., and Cary Usrey will present at the 2015 NSC Congress & Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center.

An interesting discussion at this year’s National Safety Congress (NSC) this week in Atlanta takes place today at the Executive Forum. The topic is “Beyond Engagement: Innovations for Sustainable Success” and it is presented by the Campbell Institute.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Safety Culture Policy Statement includes a list of nine traits further defining a positive safety culture. These traits describe patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that emphasize safety, particularly in goal conflict situations, such as when safety goals conflict with production, schedule or cost goals.

The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) has recognized the American Gas Association (AGA) with a 2015 “Power of a Gold Award” for AGA’s groundbreaking, voluntary national Peer Review Program.

Too often, safety leaders mistakenly believe culture has little to do with their sphere of influence and leave it to the human resources department.

Winder Power, a UK company that manufactures transformers and generators, recently reached a milestone by recording 1,000 days without a reportable accident or lost-time incident. The Leeds-based firm has not had a reportable incident resulting in lost work time for any of the technicians, engineers or other personnel working in the facility since 2012.

Do CEOs really matter when it comes to safety performance?

Two of Australia’s indigenous creatures, kangaroos and emus, have something in common – they seldom move backward. Kangaroos, because of the shape of their body and the length of their strong tail, can bounce along with forward movement, but they cannot easily shift into reverse.

You may have strong personal and professional convictions about an issue; however, you feel you have to act in another way — and that way doesn’t align with your beliefs or values.

Certainly over the past several decades, the plethora of “leadership” books has grown to the point that the topic could fill a metropolitan library.