Incident management and incident investigations, while not typically welcome due to their nature of something having gone wrong, are a necessary tool in any EHS professional‘s toolbelt. They have been getting a bad reputation lately and pushed to ‘lagging indicator’ … Read More
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Management Observations: Challenges and Pitfalls
In previous articles we have addressed the importance of real-time management observations. Such observations help responsible managers understand actual job performance – rather than hoped for performance. We have also described what these management observations should look like and offered … Read More
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
Getting the Most from Your Management Observations
In previous articles we have discussed what management observations should look like and why they are so important to safety. This article will look more deeply at “how” these observations maximize their effectiveness. There are several steps an organization should … Read More
The Drawbacks of Safety Leading Indicators
It is important for organizations to begin looking further “upstream” in their safety processes when determining how effective their overall safety program is. Some have coined this proactive method of insight as a “pre-injury investigation” (Conklin, 2012). For example, consider … Read More
Developing COVID Training Programs
The 2020 COVID pandemic presents important challenges for organizations of all sizes. For example, even small restaurants that are able to operate with indoor dining often have to close for periods of time when one of their employees tests positive … Read More
