Articles by Marc Resnick

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.

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

Monitoring employees seems like a no-brainer.

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

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

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

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.

Raise your hand if this sounds familiar. You are at the worksite of a major construction project. There are heavy machines moving all around.

Software has gone through a fundamental shift over the past decade or so.