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Phil La Duke

Phil La Duke

Phil LaDuke is a safety writer, author and consultant -- an entrepreneur through and through. He is creating a professional brand as a global partner, working with business partners in Singapore, Indonesia, Africa, and the UK, to name a few. www.philladuke.wordpress.com.

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Thought Leadership

Is social media dead for safety professionals?

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Phil La Duke
August 16, 2016
The social networking phenomenon has fostered many, usually misguided and ill-advised, attempts to capitalize on the popularity of the medium to boost sales, and to market to new (and usually younger) markets.
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Safety pros are obsessed about the wrong things

Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
February 10, 2016
Since the advent of the safety function, it’s been borrowing tools from other disciplines and building practices based on data gleaned from the earliest research in industrial psychology.
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10 ways to reinvent your safety incentive program

Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
January 27, 2016
Safety Incentives are increasingly eyed with suspicion by regulators who worry inappropriate incentives might lead to under reporting of injuries. Unfortunately, many organizations have legacy systems that provide financial rewards for injury-free time periods.
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Are safety pros obsessed about the wrong things?

Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
January 21, 2016
Since the advent of the safety function, it’s been borrowing tools from other disciplines and building practices based on data gleaned from the earliest research in industrial psychology.
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Safety ain’t what it used to be

Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
September 15, 2015

Safety is a relatively new function. When it was created in the mid 70s, it was typically an assignment tacked on to someone’s existing job. There were no instructions, or templates for doing a good job.


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Safety slogans

Safety slogans don’t save lives

Deming was right – don’t waste your time on them
Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
April 1, 2015
It’s tough to bring professionalism to a trade that actively looks to make itself look stupid.


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Let’s get out of the blame and shame business

Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
February 27, 2015

Just Culture is a management philosophy designed to hold people appropriately accountable. According to one of the current thought leaders in Just Culture, there are three basic kinds of behavior: human error, at risk behavior, and recklessness.


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workplace violence

Lone gunman-based safety

Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
February 5, 2015

Ever since Jack Ruby gunned down Lee Harvey Oswald while being transferred from a Dallas police station to county jail debate has raged as to whether or not Oswald acted alone or if he was part of a larger conspiracy.


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Thought Leadership

Taking a new look at safety

Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
January 27, 2015

Let me begin by thanking all of you who voiced your support for me during the past week. As you may have surmised, I get frustrated from time to time, mostly because so many safety practitioners still don’t get it.


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Thought Leadership

New Year’s resolutions for safety pros

Ladukephil
Phil La Duke
January 6, 2015

This time of year makes the best of us reflective and after doing some soul searching and reflecting I came up with a short list of things I think we as professionals can do to be even more effective:


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