Systems Thinking

2019 top standards- Global Standards

ISO 45001 safety and health management system standard

ANSI/ASSP/ISO 45001— 2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems – Requirements with Guidance for Use

January 3, 2019

Experts say 45001 is not easy to apprehend when read as a normal book, especially if you are not familiar with the ISO framework of 9001 and 18001. You have to realize the interconnections between specific clauses. Experts advise finding a good training course to help realize the standard’s full potential. You may also want to consider employing consultancy services to assist.

actively caring for people, behavior-based safety

Actively caring for people’s safety

The crucial difference between “caring” & “acting”

Krista S. Geller, Ph.D.

December 4, 2018

What does it mean to actively care for people’s safety? Is this the mission of behavior-based safety (BBS)? Let’s understand the difference between “caring” and “acting.” No one wants to see an individual get injured on the job. This is caring. Yet, many workers admit they do not act on their caring by providing behavioral feedback.

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Process safety management - the business case

Evaluate three critical aspects of your operation

James B. Porter Jr. Deborah Grubbe

November 4, 2018

Simply stated, process safety is a management system implemented to prevent major incidents involving hazardous materials. It is necessary for managing complex process operations. An effective process safety management system focuses on three important aspects of your business:

ways to simplify safety and improve performance

Ways to simplify safety & improve performance

Stop blaming & keep learning

Dave Johnson

June 25, 2018

If you have an accident, a failure, the easiest thing to do is look whose hand was on the lever. If that is where your root cause analysis stops, that’s a huge mistake,” says Brian Fielkow, JD, CEO of Jetco Delivery, a Houston-based trucking company with more than 100 flatbed and heavy haul trucks.

Social Sensemaking provides truly informative answers

What were they thinking?

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

February 1, 2017

Robert (Rob) Sams’ recent book, Social Sensemaking – A Reflective Journal; how we make sense of risk, provides new safety and risk thinking when it comes to considering risk in the context of individuals’ behaviors.

Reputation Guage to measure how you protect your company's reputation

Help protect your company’s reputation

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

December 15, 2016

In recent years we have seen numerous companies suffer reputation and brand damage as a result of actions or inactions by company executives and employees.

Help protect your company’s reputation

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

December 1, 2016

In recent years we have seen numerous companies suffer reputation and brand damage as a result of actions or inactions by company executives and employees.

Correcting CEO safety flaws

“Don’t kill the messenger” – is it possible?

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

October 1, 2016

On a recent vacation, I visited a U.S. Life Saving Service (USLSS) station at Indian River, DE and learned about these dedicated and brave, albeit crazy, “surfmen” who man these coastal stations along the east coast and Great Lakes.

There is root blame analysis

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

September 1, 2016

All of us who have been in the EHS business for any period of time have either led or participated in a root cause analysis (RCA).

Four trends that the EHS field must address

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

August 2, 2016

From a systemic view, anyone paying attention to numerous employment dynamics during the past decade would conclude the safety, industrial hygiene and environmental fields are bleeding from a thousand cuts.