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Human & Organizational Performance
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Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) assumes that human error is inevitable and that error is a symptom of problems within organizational systems. The HOP approach emphasizes the use of leading indicators, lessens negative consequences that lead to underreporting of incidents and near misses and includes workers in identifying safety solutions.

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Invest in workers to prevent absenteeism, cut operating costs

Preventative training is essential when there is risk of workplace injury
Anina-Marie Warrener
May 17, 2022

Expenses are an unavoidable reality and the cost of doing business. The trick is to pick the right things to spend money on, to maximize revenue and minimize cost. In the post-COVID era absenteeism has skyrocketed in many industries, becoming a key focus for executives who want to bring down costs. 



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Understanding positive and negative behavioral habits helps increase safety

Mike Fairbrother, CIC, CRM, ARM
May 9, 2022

Behavioral safety has had a significant impact on making the American workplace safer in recent years. Observing behaviors can help to identify unsafe acts and conditions and provide a tool to help correct both. 


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Character over culture: A different perspective in 3 phases

Saying 'everyone is responsible for safety' is problematic

Peter G. Furst
April 22, 2022

To improve their safety, outcomes some organizations advocate "everyone is responsible for safety." The thinking behind this is that it will create a universal mindset in their workforce to actively engage everyone. The fundamental problem with this thinking is that it is not practical to hold a group accountable for individual behavior. 


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risk management constructs

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.
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The role of beliefs in accident prevention

Peter G. Furst
April 5, 2022

Preventable injuries culminate from a series of sequential events, as represented by five dominos. The first represents the task or situation, followed by some faulty worker decision, resulting in the unsafe action, which leads to an accident and the inevitable injury. By tipping the first domino all tend to fall, and by removing some of the intervening domino the accident can be eliminated. Hence the belief that workers decisions or actions are the primary cause of accidents.


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Executive women manufacturing leaders offer advice to other aspiring females

March 17, 2022

We are often asked about what advice we would have for other women in manufacturing. At first, it was a difficult question for us to answer because we did not particularly focus on being women – we just were people working hard at doing the jobs we were engaged in. 


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The search for reliable leading indicators

The following is a summary of the worldwide SafeConnection Expert Panel Webinar
Mackenzie Wilson
February 28, 2022
As expert panels around the world got together to discuss what they think are reliable leading indicators, an unexpected result surfaced during the discussions.
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sports leadership

Improving safety leadership: Lessons learned from the sports world

Josh Williams, Ph.D
February 3, 2022

There are many parallels between exceptional safety leadership and sports. It takes proper planning and execution to be a consistent winner. Great leadership is great leadership, regardless of the context. Here are some lessons learned from the sports world to improve your own safety leadership.


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Safety skills

How to leverage your safety skills for career opportunities

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Dan Matthews
December 9, 2021

Whatever your reason for pursuing better career opportunities, you need to present yourself as a good investment. There are various ways you can approach this, but one of the most effective is by leaning into safety skills. It doesn't matter what area of industrial operations you want to work in. A background in safety can be instrumental in pushing you above the competition.


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Fueling safety culture improvement and SIF prevention with BBS 2.0

Josh Williams, Ph.D
August 25, 2021

Although workplace incident rates have steadily declined by 28% over the last decade, rates for serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) have remained virtually unchanged.


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