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The performance in many endeavors--from sports to leadership to communications to injury prevention. But to avoid defaulting into unworkable solutions, first recognize what has not significantly helped to direct attention […]

Police work is more dangerous than ever, with cops seriously outmanned and outmanned on the nation's streets. A renewed emphasis on training, as well as the old standby emphasis on [...]

The authors provide practical tips on integrating environmental, human, and organizational factors into the ergonomics process. They're often billed as a quick fix for organizational cumulative trauma disorder (CTD) pains. […]

Safety professional Greg Hamish starts the day the same as many of us. He gets up, has his eye-opening cup of coffee, showers and eats, then leaves for work. During […]

Many safety professionals admit feeling frustrated trying to help others change their behavior in order to prevent life-threatening events. I've heard numerous pros wonder, "It's in their own best interests. […]

Columbia University performed a Delphi study to determine critical areas of leadership. This type of study, named after the Greek oracle at Delphi, polls leading experts to elicit their future […]

Want to become a safety person of steel? By maintaining and steadfastly communicating high expectations, enlisting the force of enough committed deputies and providing high-level training and needed equipment, you […]

One seemingly insurmountable problem most companies have is reducing accident repetition. So-called "accident repeaters" have multiple injuries. They account for more than their fair share of compensable costs, put a […]

A significant majority of leaders in my seminars agree there is more stress now than in the past--and that this adversely affects safety performance. No question, the pace of change […]

Many organizations have applied successful engineering interventions to reduce ergonomic-related injuries. And it is important to continue to utilize the best tools and workstation designs and modifications available. But many […]

Mohandas Ghandi said: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." If you indeed aspire to become a more effective agent of change, you can accomplish […]

The aim of ergonomic design and/or behavior modifications is to create safer and more efficient performance, as well as boost worker satisfaction. A one-size-fits-all approach, while understandably easier to implement, […]

Gallup polls project a 73 percent increase of 55-and-older workers by 2020, in part because people are waiting longer to retire. For safety strategists, it's critical to plan for the […]

Strategy entails both vision and action. And vision is more than being able to vertically look ahead toward most-desired (or, at the least, minimally acceptable) outcomes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It also […]

You've probably read where the right strategy, well-applied, can overcome significant odds to seize victory in "unwinnable" battles (or sports). Note those executives who read such martial classics as Sun […]

Change is the name of the game for safety leaders. On one level, our mission is to help others change how they accomplish tasks at work and home, to look […]

Will Rogers contended, "The secret of success is simple. If you're in a hole, quit digging." This seems like common sense, but I've seen many leaders who, when frustrated, resort […]

Someone once said, "With great power comes great responsibility." I'd hope this would be true, but I do know that, in the corporate world, with increasing power comes greater attempts […]

In "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," Thomas Kuhn contends that the mainstream reflexively rejects new approaches that go against their existing paradigm--even to the point of disregarding scientific evidence supporting […]

Dave Brueher is a fraction of the person he used to be--and it's all for the better. Knowing that being overweight was neither good for him nor a support to […]

Have you ever felt like the safety manager who declared, "Sure I work a 40 hour week--by Wednesday!"? Or the HSE director who, in response to my statement that many […]

When I was a 12-year-old preparing for the "rescuing" section of the Red Cross Senior Lifesaving test, I remember my instructor telling me, "You may think that when you swim […]

My friend's father was a plant electrician before he got hurt. Highly skilled guy, very bright and motivated to excel at whatever he puts his hands on. But that's the […]

Have you ever heard a story like this? A worker made a special trip into his company because he realized he left a tool lying across a walkway in an […]