A quote I remember a mentor of mine said years ago was, if you find yourself bored, just wait 5 more minutes, something will blow up. Of course, this quote wasn’t to prepare for the glorification of putting things back together after an incident or a breakdown. It wasn’t intended to instill anxiety that a counselor would call out years later as the root cause of your sleeping issues. Nor was it an indication that your team shouldn’t deserve a well-needed break after a long, s

Like many people, I would have to imagine that most of us get sick of the same stagnant training approach that has been in place for what feels like forever. We don’t have time to sit behind a computer and select B for this question and C for the next, after watching a 25-minute video on “fall protection.” We don’t want to sit in a conference room to listen to someone teach the same to the same slide deck as last year for our annual refresher training on ethics. Within this d

Within organizations, we routinely hear the notion that we want our organization empowered to make decisions. This could be identified in a team-building workshop or highlighted when reviewing the results of organizational surveys. You may also attempt to embody empowerment when creating a mission statement. Regardless, organizations typically want an empowered team of decision-makers. However, our vantage point on the quantity and quality of empowerment may change over time

You may have interpreted through organization surveys or transformational change exercises on the subject of safety, that the organization tends to put production over safety. Simply search for testimonies of organizations that may have demonstrated these types of actions and you conclude there is not just one industry that has singularly embodied this opinion. Each industry seems to surface this opinion as a lagging indicator of unfavorable safety performance. I am a big bel