Items Tagged with 'leadership'

The gap between awareness and action is not a training problem, but instead a culture problem. Culture problems always require a different set of tools than a refresher training course or a revised work procedure.

The Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) announced its 2026 Award of Excellence and Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.

Research has shown that human judgment and decision-making are distorted by biases inherent to cognitive, motivational, and perceptual processes. 

Safety expert says that moving the needle on safety isn't about more rules; it’s about adaptive leadership and removing the demotivators that stall discretionary effort.

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

Everyone has biases which unconsciously influence our actions and/or perceptions and can be both positive and negative in nature. This invariably can manifest itself in any work performed by employees.

To truly understand why and how things happen in the way that they do, we need to have an inside perspective into a worker’s rationality principle. 

When the workforce feels that they can trust the people they work with and for and that they are treated fairly by management, they tend to think of the organization as a good place to work.

High-performing safety cultures include high levels of engagement, encourage reporting of hazards, near misses and incidents, and focus on prevention.

The effectiveness of traditional ways and means utilized to avoid accidents and injuries in the workplace is not highly efficacious.