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Dr. Dan Petersen

Dr. Dan Petersen, CSP, P.E., has a BS in industrial engineering, an MS in industrial psychology, and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and management. Dan’s latest book, “Measurement of Safety Performance,” has recently been published by the American Society of Safety Engineers. For more info, visit www.asse.org.
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: "I recall one time..."

Dr. Dan Petersen
February 20, 2007
Sadly, I preface this month’s column with word that Dan Petersen passed on January 10, 2007. Rare is a true giant in a field. That’s what Dan was to safety. A compassionate man with class, Dan started in safety full-time in 1954. For the next 53 years he prodded the field to raise its level of professionalism with unmatched vigor. In books, articles, speeches and teaching he pressed the need for research, a sense of history, clear thinking, open-mindedness, and accountability. Dan never stopped learning, never stopped pursuing the goal of organizational safety excellence. Dan leaves a huge legacy, and he’ll be very much missed. — Dave Johnson, Editor
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: Don't be fooled by a safety committee

Dr. Dan Petersen
January 1, 2007
Safety committees exist in many workplaces, and the quality of their contributions can vary greatly. In some companies, they fulfill a role of communication, quasi-participation, or perhaps real employee participation — for the few workers on the committee.
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: The problem with macro measures

Dr. Dan Petersen
October 2, 2006
For many years accident measures like the number of accidents, frequency rates, severity rates, and dollar costs were used to measure the progress of the organizational unit because practitioners felt comfortable using them. These results measures did not reveal whether the overall safety system was effective, diagnose what was or was not working, or indicate whether the system was in or out of control.
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: What should be in safety training? Start by identifying your needs

Dr. Dan Petersen
September 14, 2006
I became acquainted with safety many years ago. My first acquaintance was on my first introduction to industry — an aircraft manufacturer upon my graduation in industrial engineering in 1952.
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: Safety's bread 'n butter

Dr. Dan Petersen
July 1, 2006
20 essentials for any program (part two)
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: Safety's bread 'n butter

Dr. Dan Petersen
June 1, 2006
20 essentials for any program (part one)
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: Know your operating environment

Dr. Dan Petersen
May 6, 2006
Last month in this column I discussed five factors that determine how much effort employees will put into safety (or any part of their jobs): 1) their opinion of the value of the rewards; 2) the connection they see between their effort and those rewards; 3) effort expended; 4) abilities and traits; and, 5) role perception.
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: "What's in it for me?"

Dr. Dan Petersen
April 8, 2006
What an employee, supervisor or manager does — for safety or anything else — is determined by his or her perception of “what’s in it for me?”
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PETERSEN'S PAGE: Safety's balancing act

Dr. Dan Petersen
March 2, 2006
Mesh government mandates with management strategies

Have you been forced at some point to decide between safety or compliance — versus safety and compliance?

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PETERSEN'S PAGE: Led down the garden path

Dr. Dan Petersen
February 8, 2006
How the “anointed” influence safety programs

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).

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