safety profession

Safety Observations: The Value of Safe + Unsafe

The Value of Including Safe Observations

The safety profession has an unhealthy fixation on measurements based purely on negative values. OSHA recordable and lost time injuries are the first such statistics that spring to mind (both lagging and—I would suggest—negative indicators). Once they occur, they cannot … Read More

Systems vs Symptoms

Systems vs. Symptoms: We Need to Take a Deeper Look

The Bureau of Labor Statistics just published its fatality statistics for 2019 and the results should concern us all.  Fatalities in 2019 jumped to 5333, the highest figure since 2007 and the fifth time in the last six years that … Read More

Data Action Plan

Creating a Data Action Plan to Turn Data Insights into Action

I previously assumed that data always led to insight, but I now firmly believe that is not the case. Regardless of our role in an organization, we tend to have a bias that if we look hard enough, good things … Read More