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When is Your Safety Meeting Not A Safety Meeting?
By Phil La Duke A common leading indicator for safety is involvement in safety meetings, but to risk sounding like Bill Clinton’s infamous “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” quote...
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Combustible Dust: How Crackpots Endanger Safety
By Phil La Duke Most of us know the dangers of combustible dust, how when there is a critical mass of fine explosive material—whether it be flour or sawdust—all it takes is a spark to set of...
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Feeling Unappreciated? Maybe You Invite the Abuse
By Phil LaDuke There’s no denying the job of a safety professional can be tough. Between opportunistic vendors pushing snake oil, trenchant Operations leaders willing to take unreasonable risks, and...
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Changing The Safety Culture: You Got To Want It
By Phil LaDuke To some extent the world is driven by desire, and I have said (quoting a long-time friend) that you always have the time and money for what is truly important to you. As I continue...
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Safety Never Sleeps: Creating A Culture of Vigilance
By Phil La Duke Creating a safety culture is all the rage today, and whether you are a snake oil shyster or an organizational psychologist working in safety everyone seems to agree that we need to...
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The Rise of the Safety Theocracy
By Phil La Duke “You’d be surprised at how many companies don’t care about losing money”—A colleague when I showed him my presentation and case studies demonstrating my ability to lower companies’...
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Safety In the Age of Wikipidiots
By Phil La Duke “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt”—Mark Twain I haven’t posted an original post in over a month. I...
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Who Will We Kill Today?
By Phil LaDuke Somewhere in the world someone will die on the job today. Maybe it will happen across the world from you and maybe it will happen next door to you, but they will die nonetheless....
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Indicators Are Meaningless Unless They Lead to Managing Performance
By Phil La Duke You don’t get great outputs by managing results, you get great outputs by managing performance such that you produce great results. In safety we have spent a century trying to manage...
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Safety Slogans Don’t Save Lives
By Phil La Duke It’s tough to bring professionalism to a trade that actively looks to make itself look stupid. There’s only so many hours in the day and only so many resources and if we are wasting...
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I Factory Rat
By Phil La Duke This week I conclude my series of posts on safety as an outcome. I began these articles by asking you to rethink safety; to think of it not as a discreet element unto itself, but as the...
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A Pyramid By Any Other Name
by Phil La Duke In the past weeks I have challenged safety practitioners to view safety differently, to see beyond the fads, the snake oil, and to see safety for what it is, the product of well-managed...
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Your Only As Good—and Safe—As Your Process
by Phil La Duke Several weeks ago I posted an article that asked you to take a new look at safety. I asked you to consider that safety isn’t something that happens to workers or that doesn’t happen to...
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The Lie of Complacency
by Phil La Duke In this week’s post, I was going to continue exploring the antecedent processes that organizations must manage if they hope to ensure safe outcomes, but I got distracted by a recent...
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Taking a New Look At Safety
By Phil La Duke Let me begin by thanking all of you who voiced your support for me over the past week. As you may have surmised I get frustrated from time to time, mostly because so many safety...
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Discouraging Workers from Reporting Injuries Is Bad Business
By Phil La Duke Under-reporting injuries is a poor business practice bordering on criminal behavior. Nowhere was this better evidence than when the U.S. government leveed a whopping $70 million fine...
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Lone-Gunman Based Safety
By Phil La Duke Ever since Jack Ruby gunned down Lee Harvey Oswald while being transferred from a Dallas police station to county jail debate has raged as to whether or not Oswald acted alone or if he...
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2014 New Year’s Resolutions for Safety Professionals
by Phil LaDuke Last year I wrote a list of New Year’s resolutions for Safety Professionals. The piece proved popular and people this time of year seem to come looking for them. I decided to write this...
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Why BBS will Live Forever
By Phil La Duke Just when you think the debate over Behavior-Based Safety has faded from the landscape something brings it crashing back into your consciousness. For me it was a recent article (and the...
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Insights on Culture
By Phil LaDuke On Friday I went to the neighborhood bar as I am wont to do from time to time. While there I saw a regular who works with my brother in an open die forge. I passed the pleasantries with...
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