Shawn M. Galloway

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Risk-Weighted Work: Matching Task Exposure to Experience and Brain Science

Matching Task Exposure to Experience and Brain Science

Shawn M. Galloway

March 18, 2026

A practical way to reduce high-consequence events without relying on luck, warnings, or slogans.

Lessons from a music video: From saving children to improving workplace safety

Shawn M. Galloway

May 14, 2024

While reminiscing about some of the impactful music videos my wife and I remember from the 1980s and ’90s, I ended up researching, learning something new and thinking differently. With our efforts to improve occupational safety, this article explores how certain songs transcend their role as mere entertainment in music and become powerful catalysts for change.

Investing in Relationships: Effective tactics to get to know your employees

Shawn M. Galloway

April 11, 2024

A sturdy foundation is essential in construction to ensure the stability and integrity of the entire building. Similarly, when managers take the time to get to know their employees, they establish a solid foundation of trust and lay the groundwork for optimal performance.

Elevating occupational safety: A new holistic approach for excellence

Shawn M. Galloway

January 17, 2024

Do your employees truly know what to look for and can they recognize the hazards and risks associated with their tasks? Is it psychologically safe to openly recognize hazards and risks and choose safe actions within the culture?

Safety must deliver more than customers expect

Shawn M. Galloway

September 3, 2014

Competitive advantage in the marketplace no longer lies with managing and beating competition

Safety leadership happens in the middle

Shawn M. Galloway

July 9, 2014

Why are our most important leaders, responsible for driving improvement in performance, culture and results, often our most inexperienced, undertrained, underdeveloped and incapable? Most of us have seen the situation when the super employee becomes the supervisor without ever being taught how to be an effective leader.

Leadership: Better to be liked or respected?

Shawn M. Galloway

July 1, 2014

Certainly the average person desires to be both liked and respected. While a gross oversimplification of behavioral sciences, we behave in a way consistent with seeking out what we desire and avoiding what we don’t. Leaders of all kinds are often put in positions to make decisions that impact the lives of others.

Licensing and royalty fees can blunt safety advances

Shawn M. Galloway

September 5, 2013

Practices to improve safety performance and culture have and will continue to evolve, due to advances in thinking born from a continuous pursuit to challenge the status quo.

Who really owns safety?

Bottom line reality differs from the rhetoric

Shawn M. Galloway

August 1, 2013

If safety is more important than production, why does safety report up through legal, human resources or production rather than production reporting up through the company’s number one priority?