Lance Roux

Lance is the founder of SafetyPro Resources, LLC. He is a Certified Safety Professional.

It’s Not Your Incident Rate, It’s Your Risk

The theories and processes behind the management of organizations have remained largely unchanged over the last decade. What has changed, however, is the ability of firms to..

Safety Leaders: Do You Know Where Your Safety Program is Failing?

The Importance Of A Safety Program Safety leaders spend much of their time focusing on the sharp end of safety. Implementing and maintaining procedures and programs encompasses..

The Blurring Line between Quality and Safety

A few years back, my journey as a safety professional actually started as a foray into quality management. I was working as a paramedic at the time, and was looking to create a..

The Most Worthless Program in Your Safety Manual

Identify Value in your Safety Manual As safety professionals, it is not uncommon to be the unfortunate recipient of comments with respect to the contents of the Safety Manual/..

New Construction Confined Space Rules to Improve Your Safety Program

In one of our latest blog posts, we took a look at the 5 Differences Between Construction and General Industry Confined Space Rules. Again, I think it is worth it to emphasize..

9 Human Factor Pitfalls to Avoid in Successful SMS Implementation

SMS Implementation: Managing the human factor You can go up to pretty much any manager or executive who works in any industry, and be regaled in stories of “good change going..

5 Differences Between Construction & Industry Confined Space Rules

Keeping Workers Safe When in Confined Spaces The beginning of August is just right around the corner, and with it, the new Construction Confined Space Rules (26 CFR 1926 Subpart..

Five Elements of an Effective Safety Culture

It takes more than implementing a Behavior-Based Safety Program to transform a company's safety culture.

How To Determine Organizational Context for ISO 45001

The proposed ISO 45001 Safety Management Systems standard creates a new requirement for implementation of the system in Section 4.1: Understanding the organization and its..