SafetyPro Resources Blog: safety leadership

Safety and Storms: Tracking Hurricane Michael

An earlier blog – “Hurricane Planning Shall Not Bend in the Wind” – covered five planning categories: prepare, train, respond, recover and learn. As Hurricane Michael steams..

The Safety Standards: A Real Page Turner

Do you remember how Thornton answered Diane when she asked him, “Don’t you ever read?” Thornton said, “Read. Who has time? I see the movie. I’m in and out in two hours.” Do you..

L.E.A.R.N. Work. Repeat. [Safety Training Strategy]

“Think training’s hard?...Try losing!” is, in my opinion, a great quote as a new NFL season recently kicked off, but it is also a great slogan to perhaps kick off your new..

New Leaders in Safety - Creating a Powerful Safety Culture - SafetyPro

Harold McAlindon said, “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” As new leaders in safety begin working with organizations and..

What Safety Leaders Need to Know about “Nested Interruptions”

One of the benefits to safety leaders who have a medical background (and keep dipping that toe into the pool from time to time), is the volume of human factors research that’s..

How Safety Leaders Focus on the Second Story

When an incident occurs, and depending on the structure and processes of an organization, there are usually multiple narratives that are produced, especially when the incident..

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 Three “Soft” Skills of Resilient Safety Leaders

Safety leaders know and understand the importance of resilience with respect to organizational integrity. It can be the difference on a spectrum between adequacy, a functioning..

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..