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Best Practices

Character over culture: A different perspective in 3 phases

May 13, 2020

Over my career I’ve had the learning experiences of being told I will not succeed and that I am not good enough to lead. While I see those comments as motivation, my real motivation is to have an impact/legacy on my profession for my family and leave a vision for the next generation.

Are toxic cultures rampant?

Survey paints discouraging picture

Dave Johnson

November 3, 2019

Google “safety culture” and you get about 1,600,000,000 results in 0.95 seconds. Safety and health managers have long known the importance of culture – the organization’s values, beliefs and leadership - on safety, morale, productivity, engagement, presenteeism and absenteeism. Culture has been at the top of safety and health issues for the past ten years at least.

On human performance & culture

Don’t focus on frailties; don’t mandate culture

Corrie Pitzer

October 1, 2019

The focus on human performance has quickly become no more than human error of yesteryear. I’m amazed at how many “neuroscience solutions” there suddenly are that can fix human (safety) performance.

Dow’s CEO sees safety’s connections throughout his company

Tom Krause, PH.D Kendra Greene

June 1, 2016

An organization pursuing excellence must see safety’s role in the big picture.

Safety culture – it doesn’t exist

It’s more correct to talk about a risk culture

Corrie Pitzer

June 1, 2016

"The concept of organizational culture is hard to define, hard to analyze and measure, and hard to manage," Schein states in the preface of his 1992 book (p. xi).

Identify holes in your culture – a “deep dive”

Random preconditions align to cause incidents & injuries

Marc Resnick

November 3, 2015

James Reason’s Swiss Cheese Model of safety is a remarkably simple way to think about how organizational culture and climate turn into injuries and incidents.

What are your thoughts about occupational safety and health entering 2013?

We want to know, we really want to know

Dave Johnson

December 11, 2012

Heading into 2013, I am asking ISHN readers (there are 71,000 of you out there across the U.S.) for input on issues of leadership and organizational culture.

5 steps to building a safety culture

Ivan Misner

October 19, 2012

Strategy is often a primary focus in business schools; however, culture is less understood.

Fear has silenced your culture

David Sarkus MS, CSP

October 5, 2012

For more than 15 years, there has been a growing body of knowledge regarding serious accidents and their precursors. Largely, precursors provide observable cues and manageable signals that something very bad might be about to happen.