Face it. Your policies and check-in-the-box compliance mentality aren’t helping to drive safety performance results. You might have all the correct components and processes in place, but the health of your culture is what’s going to have a greater impact on your safety performance and success.
When Ray Kroc stopped selling Dixie cups at the age of 52 and opened the first McDonald’s hamburger joint in Des Plaines, Illinois, he realized something that few others knew then or even grasp now. His secret: the burger doesn’t make the burger joint. In sales, there are intangibles more important than the product.
You can measure safety character by observing how people make decisions. Every decision to take unnecessary risk is preceded by a series of ill-advised choices. Let me tell you a story to explain what I mean.
Considering and completing the application process to the OSHA Voluntary Protection Program can be daunting. The application itself can seem lengthy and confusing, not to mention the big change in mindset that is required.
As an EHS professional, you’re overwhelmed with rules and regs information, bulletins, alerts, training options. Every day your email inbox is stuffed with offers.
Aging, aching baby boomer workers represent a pandemic of sorts. As boomers began to turn 40 and 50, there was a veritable explosion of bone and joint aches, pains, injuries and ailments. It’s a serious concern for safety and health pros.
Who says, “You can’t teach old dogs new tricks”? Our three-year-old daughter Isla is teaching us many amazing “new tricks” every day, so why not on the job? I have a little story to tell about this and more.
Once upon a time, many, many moons ago I went to college. After four interesting years, I went to graduate school. Especially in grad school and the higher-level undergrad classes, I discovered a high value was placed on so-called critical thinking skills.
Behavior is motivated by its consequences, but we all interpret consequences differently. A consequence that motivates some of us to change behavior might not even be noticed by others.
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