Using Your Inspection Data to Improve Safety Performance through a Leading Indicator Safety Incentives Program What comes to mind when you hear the term “safety incentives”? Pizza parties held after 30 days worked without an injury? Prizes raffled off after six weeks without a lost-time incident? ...

In Safety Management by Walking Around, Part I & Part II of this series we covered the definition and importance of management walkarounds as well some advice on how to conduct them effectively. In this last article of the series we’ll look at some additional implementation tips and challenges ...

(Adapted from “Creating & Maintaining a Practical Based Safety Culture©”)

The creation and use of a data use plan is a best practice, especially when your goal is to make data driven decisions based on information collected during safety inspections. In general terms, this is a process that involves reviewing data, analyzing trends, determining action plans for ...

Much (perhaps too much) of the safety literature of the last few years has focused on employee driven “behavior-based safety” peer observation programs. The fact remains, however, that safety is a line management responsibility. Implied in that responsibility is the need (obligation?) to fully ...

You live in the real world. You have a business to run, or maybe a department or shift. You want your employees to be safe. You have systems with safe practices and procedures. You are developing an organizational culture that places a high value on safety. But still there are occasional incidents.

Heinrich is among the founders of the modern safety profession, and while decades of additional experience and science have shown us that part of his work is flawed, still a great deal can be learned from his heritage. Also, he has left us at least two strong safety metaphors: the dominos and the ...

In my introductory blog post, I referenced several quotes from W. Edwards Deming, best known for his work in Japan’s successful approach to quality in manufacturing. His 14 points that make up a “System of Profound Knowledge” is still extremely relevant and widely used today. Here is a link that ...

In the 1930's, William Herbert Heinrich, an employee working for Traveler's Insurance Company, published groundbreaking theories about safety and health in the workplace. One such theory became known as Heinrich's Law: that in a workplace, for every accident that causes a major injury, there are 29 ...