Articles by James E. Leemann Ph.D.

Use these strategies to minimize the need to beat your safety system.

A colleague recently asked my opinion regarding attorney-client “privilege” being used as a “practice.”

Slogans like “Zero is the Goal” are fine as long as management is willing to provide the resources to do the more difficult and expensive safety and health program activities.

How would you handle these ethical dilemmas?

There is a difference between an unethical safety leader and one who occasionally falls prey to twisted leadership safety ethics.

When hope is all we count on and we subsequently fail, we give up.

Have you ever wondered why you think your brain is going to explode as you sit through a grueling PowerPoint presentation?

To be a systems thinker, you have to, on most occasions, be a contrary thinker.

Defining a manager’s planning style reflects the manager’s approach to and tolerance for change.

A manager’s attitude toward time will dictate his or her style of planning.