Industry 4.0 revolutionizes what used to be “business as usual.” Building on the hard-earned gains from previous paradigm shifts in production, the world now enters the era of big data and never-before-seen levels of automation and interconnectivity. Dramatic improvements in … Read More
Safety Stratus Blog
Don’t Waste Your Safety Resources: Promote Worker Engagement
The most important asset we have in safety is our workforce. There are far more of them than there are of us and no one understands the work, and often the hazards, better than they do. In addition, as workers … Read More
The Uncertainty of Safety Metrics
The trouble […] is that you are trying to get out of your statistics something that you cannot get. No statistics will automatically do your safety job for you. They merely show you what sort of accidents you are having … Read More
The Advantage of ESG for EHS Professionals
For decades, EHS professionals have been reporting on environmental health and occupational safety at the workplace. The earliest purpose of EHS was to reach compliance standards and keep reputational risk at bay. This was only a standard for some high-risk … Read More
Human Error: A Meaningless Term
“Egyptian authorities suggest that the Ever Given container ship that ran aground blocking the Suez Canal could have been due to human error.” Such headlines attributing serious accidents to “human error” are remarkably common following nearly every serious incident. But … Read More
Safety Observation Training – The Feedback Conversation
When a safety system is built around simply observing and recording results, it can create a culture where workers experience inspectors as ‘unwelcome outsiders’ rather than ‘trusted partners.’ In a previous article, Safety Observation Program Defined, certain observation approaches that … Read More
