Lance Roux

Three Behaviors You'll Never See from Safety Leaders

As safety leaders, a lot of times (necessarily) we focus on the behaviors of associates and people who we are responsible for. This is augmented by people-oriented programs such..

The 3 Human Factors Symptoms of Teams Under Stress

Safety, Campbell’s Law, & the Rat Effect

In nearly every organization, safety leaders are familiar with the concept of unintended consequences. Unintended consequences (or externalities) in firms are the result of a new..

Aligning Goals & Objective to Your SMS Policy Statement

For organizations who are doing a fresh (e.g. brand new) implementation of a safety management system (SMS), one of the more difficult parts is getting started. For some firms..

10 Ways to Supercharge Your Safety Management System - SMS

How's your Safety Management System coping? Employee engagement tends to be a bit of a buzzword, but there is some rationale for getting personnel involved in developing or..

How to Write a Safety Policy Statement for Your SMS

This is one of those elements that is pretty constant across all different types of safety management systems. If the management system framework being utilized does not include a..

Compliance: The Worst Sort of Cooperation

Compliance - How we deal with it The science of management has changed very little in the last six decades. In many organizations, we bumble through dealing with people and..

Zero is the Enemy of “Safe” - Manage Risk & Safety - SafetyPro

In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins opened with the phrase “good is the enemy of great.” As safety leaders, and whether we’d like to believe it or not, it has a lot of..

Leveraging 200 Years of Other People’s Mistakes

If you had the opportunity to flatten your organization’s learning curve by leveraging 200 years of other people’s mistakes while internalizing best practices and providing an..