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Editor's Letter

Survivors of a fatality can struggle for answers

April 1, 2020

. Gene Hobbs was working for the Meade County Road Department, raking along the edge of a road shortly after noon, when he was run over by a dump truck backing up, killing him upon impact, on December 13, 2016.

Denying executive accountability is too common

Throwing safety under the bus

Dave Johnson

March 2, 2020

Sad but true. In 2020, OSHA celebrates its 50th anniversary. Safety’s sage, Dan Petersen, published “Safety Management, a Human Approach” in 1975. Lessons haven’t been learned.

An actionable safety plan: Part 3 – Sustaining safety success

This is the third in a three-part series

Deborah Grubbe James B. Porter Jr.

April 9, 2018

In our previous two columns on this subject, developing an actionable safety plan is covered in three parts. First Actions was explained in Part One (October 2017 ISHN) and Core Actions detailed in Part Two (January 2018 ISHN). The rest of this column focuses on Sustaining Actions.

Employees rising to employer expectations

Provide employees with the tools to support your expectations

David Sarkus MS, CSP

March 1, 2018

Expectations drive both the leader and follower. Various forms of research suggest that when leaders have higher types of expectations for their followers, those followers often live up to the expectations.

An actionable safety plan: Part 1- Improving safety performance

This is the first in a three-part series

Deborah Grubbe James B. Porter Jr.

October 17, 2017

Your plan must be based on your organization's vision for future safety performance. Frame it as a set of actions that will: Further a safety culture change from reactive to proactive, provide the functioning capability to lead the change, and provide governance requirements to sustain the change.

Close scrutiny + no excuses = acccountability

John Mavros

October 1, 2016

Personal choice often lies in the cracks that hold your truths. It’s a tough to scrutinize truths that only you know about and question your efforts, motivations and missed opportunities in order to succeed in the next endeavor.

Who’s serious about safety?

An accountability system for supervisors

Mike Fenerty

July 22, 2014

As safety professionals, we all know the difference between the safety performance of workers under a safety-oriented supervisor and workers under a supervisor that does not push safety.

Devil – The details of a safety accountability culture

Mike Williamsen Ph.D., CSP

May 21, 2013

As a famous cliché reads: the devil is in the details. I often get asked about the details of a viable safety accountability culture. An example of visible executive involvement is personal commitment to safety accountability (S/A), to be involved in a review and discussion of appropriate actions for all significant incidents and near misses.