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Safety Professionals Should Think Like ‘Bean Counters’

At first glance, the statement will likely appear offensive but it offers a formula for success

February 24, 2025

At first glance, the statement or the suggestion to think like “bean counters” will likely appear offensive but it offers a formula for success.

Verdantix hosting in-person summit in Austin in October

September 15, 2022

Verdantix is returning to live events with their annual North America innovation summit, ‘Innovating for Safe and Sustainable Operations’ focusing on key EHS and ESG strategic priorities. The event is October 25-26, 2022, in Austin, Texas.

How employees and organizations can overcome adversity to better handle chronic illness and trauma

Christy Maes Cory Worden M.S., CSHM

April 14, 2022

Within risk management constructs, external risk is as equally valid as internal risk. Natural disasters, external hazardous materials releases, and workplace violence from outside the organization can harm employees and affect organizational operations as much or more than inter-workplace hazards.

Thought Leadership

Whistleblowers, past and present

How to avoid repeat mistakes and understand ethical dilemmas

Cory Worden M.S., CSHM

January 17, 2021

In this series, the concept of and need for whistleblowers is explored along with historical and present-day cases.

Part 3 of 3: COVID-19 hazard analysis

Lessons learned and continual improvement

Cory Worden M.S., CSHM

July 28, 2020

In parts one and two of this three-part series, COVID-19’s hazard analysis, risk assessment and hazard controls were covered within the risk management construct. However, these functions only cover the first, planning half of the continual improvement cycle.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 9

Begin making critical decisions

Larry Wilson

July 28, 2020

If you really think about it, you’ll realize that you have most likely experienced accidental pain in almost any activity you’ve ever done. So, if you can accept that the “what” isn’t really where the pattern is because we’ve all been hurt, a little or a lot.

Rethinking Traditional Safety, Part 8

The complacency continuum and ‘when vs. what’

Larry Wilson

July 14, 2020

As mentioned in an earlier article, it’s not that we are totally defenseless, it’s that from time to time, we are momentarily defenseless.

Part 1 of 3: Removing the Enigma

A methodical risk and control analysis of COVID 19

Cory Worden M.S., CSHM

June 7, 2020

As the worldwide response to the COVID 19 pandemic continues, the United States’ death toll has exceeded 50,000 and, with testing still very much underway, the extent of the infected is unknown.

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5 business lessons learned amid COVID-19

Mission critical elements of operational agility in the post-pandemic era

Hari Abburi

June 5, 2020

If there’s one thing the global business community has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that continues to ebb, flow and unfold on the daily, wreaking having on bottom lines in every corner of the world in its wake, it’s the outright imperative for companies to be agile “from top to bottom.”

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Does punishment work? Absolutely, but probably not

Putting up a fight

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.

April 1, 2020

Invited to do a workshop for a very large international corporation, I went out to a dinner where I sat next to the “grand poohbah” vice president in charge of all things quality and safety. He leaned over to me and said: