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Items Tagged with 'performance'

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This image illustrates the concept of cognitive bias, specifically how internal perception and thought processes can distort incoming information.

Improving Performance, Quality and Safety by Identifying Unconscious Biases in Operations

Peter G. Furst
March 12, 2026

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.



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attentive workers

EHS Survey Reveals Current Safety Metrics Need Improvement

The most common safety performance indicator for decades has been "thumbs up or thumbs down"
Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson
December 15, 2025

If large companies say the way they measure safety performance does not fully capture the most serious workplace risks, where does that leave the small and mid-size companies?


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psychology in the workplace

Attribution — A hidden risk factor

Personal behavior affects situational observations
Peter G. Furst
October 19, 2024

Attribution refers to the cognitive process that people use to find reason for either their own behavior or that of others.


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safety inspection

Reversing the normalization of performance deviations can be difficult

Peter G. Furst
October 3, 2024

Many organizations suffer from performance deviation despite their best efforts.


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safety managers to improve staffing

Do you know what's going on in your facility?

How to effectively assess, optimize workflow and utilize technology to improve operations
Ellie Gabel
November 21, 2023

Efficient facilities management is vital in manufacturing because it directly affects productivity and profitability


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Unintentional biases
Leading Safety

Unintentional biases based on personal experience may affect the workplace

Attribution — a hidden risk factor
Peter G. Furst
February 7, 2023

People can make relatively logical assessment of situations and information, but we have to be careful of possible biases in our interaction with others.


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complex supply chain
Leading Safety

Separating safety management from operations isn’t always beneficial

Issues occur within safety oversight
Peter G. Furst
December 13, 2022

When you have a complex supply chain, issues may occur with oversight responsibility for various operations. Fundamentally some of this emanates from the industry’s reaction and response to the promulgation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.


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Construction tech

5 best practices for improving construction worker safety

Bryan Christiansen
October 6, 2022

To help construction businesses improve their safety performance, we're looking at 5 best practices that can immensely improve construction worker safety while on the job.


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Four principles for staying cool under pressure – and succeeding

Athlete & world-renowned surgeon shares tips
October 3, 2014

We all ask ourselves the same desperate question from time to time: How am I going to make this work?! “No matter how well we’ve done laying the groundwork for everything to run smoothly – becoming educated, choosing the right spouse, treating others well -- we all face situations that challenge us,” says Dr. Robert J. Cerfolio, a world-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon known as “the Michael Jordan of lung surgery.”


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Recognition: The simple, underutilized tool that can transform your safety culture

Mike Williamsen Ph.D., CSP
March 5, 2013

Recognition for doing things correctly seems to be a lost art.  Over the years, I have assessed perception surveys for hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of employees.  As I tally the results, recognition for performance of doing things right is the lowest scoring safety management process. Interestingly, discipline (i.e., correcting people when they do something wrong) scores as the sixth lowest of the 21 safety management processes measured by the Caterpillar Safety Services statistically validated survey. 


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