Lance Roux

Safety Leadership: Your Management Is Committed, But Is Your Board?

Safety leaders know and understand (all too well, unfortunately) that management commitment is a critical piece in moving any organization forward to proactively deal with hazards..

Zeigarnik, Human Factors, and Coming Undone

As safety leaders and professionals, we are forced to handle competition for our time and resources, as well as complete our own tasks and activities that we are responsible for...

4 Ways to Supercharge Internal Safety Audits

The Importance of Safety Audits Audits are a critical function of an OHSAS 18001 or ISO 45001 occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS). They are a great way to..

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..