Chuck Pettinger

Chuck has over 30 years of experience designing, implementing and evaluating culture step-change initiatives. His major interests include developing large-scale corporate behavior change initiatives, assessing industrial safety cultures, using advanced predictive analytics to develop leading indicators, and conducting Leadership Engagement Workshops. In addition to being twice named 101 Top Leaders in Safety by ISHN, Chuck has authored many training/technical manuals while designing, customizing and developing training materials for use in industry and government agencies. In addition, he has numerous published abstracts and papers and many scheduled speaking engagements at professional conferences yearly, including invited international multi-day seminars in Africa, Australia, China, France, Hong Kong, India, and Singapore. Chuck is a Certified Behavior Analyst and has served as a Behavioral Program Specialist for the State of Florida and other private industries. He earned his degree from the University of Florida, his Masters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his Doctorate from Virginia Tech under Dr. E. Scott Geller.

Data accuracy and the golden ticket fallacy

Angelo Cianfrocco

Nick Goodell

Chuck Pettinger

August 5, 2021

So, what is data accuracy? Data accuracy is one of the “six dimensions” of data quality and it can be defined as the “degree to which the data correctly describes the ‘real world’ objects being described.” This definition makes it easy to see how poor data accuracy could greatly impact your ability to use your data effectively.

Safety Analytics

Data quality: It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it

Angelo Cianfrocco

Nick Goodell

Chuck Pettinger

June 10, 2021

Many companies starting their data analytics journey make the mistake of skipping the data cleaning process all together. None of us want to see how the sausage is made, we just want the bratwurst to magically appear. But as we have seen over, and over, insightful analytics cannot be achieved with poor data quality.

Safety Analytics

Data does not speak for itself: You have to speak for it

Angelo Cianfrocco

Chuck Pettinger

Nick Goodell

May 6, 2021

The data “will speak for itself.” If you have spent any time in the data analytics world you have heard this phrase thrown around. But is it true?

How to produce and market a successful safety culture

Creating good vibrations

Chuck Pettinger

November 4, 2018

Impacting organizational culture is a long-term, never-ending endeavor. Many companies struggle with maintaining and sustaining cultural initiatives because their impact may not be felt for several years. Culture, as an organizational construct, is a subjective factor not directly measurable by any instrument, survey or metric. Yet, everyone is impacted by culture and can describe when it turns bad.

Behavior doesn’t happen in a vacuum

You must look at the broader work system

Cary Usrey

Chuck Pettinger

August 3, 2015

During the late 1970s, Judy Komaki and her behavioral psychologist colleagues used their methodology in a food manufacturing facility to improve the safety performance by focusing on reinforcing safe behaviors (Komaki, Barwick, & Scott, 1978). This was the birth of behavior-based safety (BBS).

The Behavior-based safety death spiral

Five keys to recharge an observation process

Chuck Pettinger

August 1, 2014

Can organizations learn anything from the simple ant?

Chuck Pettinger

August 1, 2013

To stay relevant, silence distracters and continue to help organizations eliminate death on the job, behavior-based safety (BBS) processes need to experience a “step-change.”