Marc Resnick

Marc Resnick is the founder and principal consultant at Performance Solutions. Performance Solutions provides companies with assistance in safety, ergonomics and performance management. Marc can be reached directly at mresnick@bentley.edu, (305) 443-3765 or followed at @PerformSol on Twitter.

Identify holes in your culture – a “deep dive”

Random preconditions align to cause incidents & injuries

Marc Resnick

November 3, 2015

James Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model of safety is a remarkably simple way to think about how organizational culture and climate turn into injuries and incidents.

Can you learn best practices from your trade association or professional society?

Marc Resnick

September 1, 2015

The American Gas Association (AGA) launched a program this year that shows some great promise for improving safety at its member companies.

Don’t monitor for compliance, but performance improvement

Marc Resnick

August 3, 2015

Monitoring employees seems like a no-brainer.

Set safety goals that motivate employees

Marc Resnick

June 1, 2015

In the past year, six books by well-known authors have been published on the subject of goal-setting.

How to help workers make rational decisions

Marc Resnick

March 3, 2015

Despite extensive safety training, when workers are making decisions on the shop floor – even life-threatening and business critical decisions – they sometimes let emotions cloud their judgment. Why? What are we doing wrong?

Gift card gamification: Game elements support inner motivation to work safely

Marc Resnick

October 2, 2014

Gift cards are a common element of today’s safety incentive programs.

Fuel for internal motors: What drives behaviors?

Marc Resnick

September 3, 2014

One challenge of talking about motivation is that different people use different labels to refer to different kinds of motivation.

Creatures of Habit: A machine mishap becomes a teachable moment

Marc Resnick

April 1, 2014

I was recently involved in a tragic situation in which machine guarding failed not because the mechanical design was inadequate but because the human system around it fell victim to a well-known weakness.