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| Transforming leadership: How leaders create high-performing safety cultures | | For many leaders, becoming good at safety requires learning how to do things differently. | | 01 May 2013 | | Read More |
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| Safety Leadership: Aligning safety talent with safety strategy | | Do you have the right people in the right places to drive your safety strategy? Many leaders recognize that achieving world-class performance is requiring new competencies and skills for safety professionals and all leaders. | | 01 April 2013 | | Read More |
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| ‘Nobody gets hurt’: A safety journey | | A Q&A with Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation, 2013 recipient of the National Safety Council Green Cross for Safety medal. | | 01 March 2013 | | Read More |
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| Safety Leadership: What leaders need to know about ‘potential’ | | Many incident investigation systems are designed to look at what has happened, not what outcome could reasonably happen. Yet it’s precisely this ability to detect, categorize and respond to potential that is crucial for great safety performance. | | 01 March 2013 | | Read More |
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| Putting safety leadership in the path of supervisors’ work | | Great safety leaders change the culture for the better, but how they impact culture change depends on a leader’s unique role. For front-line supervisors and managers, becoming a great safety leader is a special challenge. | | 01 February 2013 | | Read More |
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| 6 important actions to move safety forward | | The beginning of every New Year is a time for looking ahead. We consider what we want to accomplish and what we will do differently, both personally and professionally. As safety leaders, that activity takes on a special significance: Our “resolutions” help determine the quality of systems that protect people’s lives and livelihoods. | | 01 January 2013 | | Read More |
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| What will be your safety legacy? | | Safety leadership should be a legacy-building business. We need to be able to look ahead to the end of our careers and ask what we will leave behind. | | 01 December 2012 | | Read More |
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| Safety leadership: Lean principles: The connection to safety | | Leaders with operating responsibility have no charge greater than the safety of their people. Weaving that value for safety into the priorities of quality, on-time delivery and production can be daunting. | | 01 November 2012 | | Read More |
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| Safety’s core work: Three areas to strengthen for better results | | It’s easy to look back after an incident and find something (or someone) to blame. What’s harder is to look closer at why these things happened – why, for instance, an operator didn’t alert co-workers to a hazard, why critical paperwork wasn’t in order, or why necessary personal protective equipment wasn’t available. | | 01 September 2012 | | Read More |
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| Collaboration builds ownership, better outcomes | | Not surprisingly, collaboration is linked to better safety outcomes overall. Still, most leaders can tell you that in practice, collaboration is fraught with difficulties. | | 01 August 2012 | | Read More |
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| 'Forever on the alert' | | “Generally to be forever on the alert to enthuse Safety Committees in their work; to find ways and means of making everybody from Manager to Office Boy a booster for Safety.” | | 01 August 2012 | | Read More |
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| Leading from within: Developing your personal connection to safety | | Leaders lead with everything they do and say, whether they intend to or not. In our work, we’ve seen reality put many leaders far outside their comfort zones. | | 01 July 2012 | | Read More |
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| Safety leadership: I talk about safety all the time – but does anyone really hear me? | How do you get better at communication? For many of the leaders we work with, the solution starts with stepping back to consider why you communicate in the first place.
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| Safety Leadership: Avoiding disaster: Four key elements of process incident prevention | | Your CEO asks what you are doing to be sure you do not have a catastrophic event. Depending on your industry, you might point to a process safety management system, or a systems safety plan, or to your OSH management system. But would that be enough? | | 01 May 2012 | | Read More |
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| Safety leadership | | In our work, we often find the most significant challenge senior leaders face is in knowing what data should be available to them – and what questions to ask about that data. That issue was brought to life for me recently when I worked with a group of senior leaders. | | 01 April 2012 | | Read More |
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