It’s easy to be “led down the garden path†as a safety practitioner. Let me explain. Or rather, I’ll let Thomas Sowell do the explaining. In 1995, Sowell wrote the best-seller, Vision of the Anointed (published by BasicBooks, a member of the Perseus Books Group).
Psychology is going positive — something to consider in your efforts to motivate workers to think and act safely. You see, for much of its history, psychology has focused much attention on the negative. Hmmm… might we say the same about safety programs? But I digress.
I am haunted by four recent unfortunate events. One is a catastrophe reported nationwide by the media, another is an incident which is big news in our local newspapers, and the other two misfortunes are not known publicly, but traumatic all the same.
A week after the bodies of the 12 miners were pulled from the Sago mine in West Virginia, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) announced he would convene an oversight hearing into mine safety practices and enforcement.
Do you notice that nearly all consultants or EHS professionals writing for ISHN have letters (acronyms for titles) after their name? If you want to advance in the EHS field, you’ll need letters after your name, too.
Have you developed plans to address safety and health opportunities that may occur over the next decade? After all, best practices for managing workplace safety and health require you to develop both short- and long-term plans.
Slow down and live in the moment. This is a worthwhile resolution for the New Year, similar to one I proposed in January 2003 — “Yield the right-of-way.â€
To start the year off I want to study current managerial thinking, based on three best-selling books, and apply some of their concepts to workplace safety.
If there’s a language more dense and indecipherable than consultantese, it might come from the think tanks that populate Washington, D.C. and many a comfortable campus.
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