Motivational Safety Articles INDEX (333 postings as of 2/4/2023)
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Three Approaches to Safety Management (Reason, 1997)
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The model of an Organizational Accident (Reason, 1997)
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Explaining the holes in the Swiss Cheese model (Reason, 1997)
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Maybe I’m just old school (SOPs/SWPs)
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Safety works from both angles!
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Do you have a safety management system?
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Safety is NOT about numbers; its about the people
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James Reason on Routine Violations
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James Reason on Latent Organizational Failures in accident causation models
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What is Safety Management By Walking Around (SMBWA)?
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Active Listening is Respectful
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Do we need a Safety, Health, Environmental and Sustainability Committee as a standing / operating committee, at the Board of Directors (BOD) level?
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HSES Planning
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Culture eats Strategy for breakfast
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Are you Good or Lucky?
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Understanding how you achieved it is MORE important than the actual achievement
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Safety Management By Walking Around (SMBWA)
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7 Guiding Principles of Integrated Safety Management System
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Integrated Safety Management System Core Functions
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Integrated Safety Management System (Reason)
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Safety professionals can learn from Homer
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Some consultants want to help you make your employees FEEL safe
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Why an overly detailed safety plan can be a liability
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Another "old safety dog" position vs. the new-age position
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Safety as a VALUE rather than a priority
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What does it mean when management says "Safety is #1"
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How PSM/RMP can be the SMS for OSH programs
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5 Characteristics of a World-Class Safety Management System (SMS)
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The FAA's approach to managing safety with an SMS
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Safety is like wearing "idiot mittens"
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The NTSB wants airlines to Require and Verify the Effectiveness of Safety Management Systems in all Revenue Passenger-Carrying Aviation Operations
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Safe Work Practices, Operating Procedures and Maintenance Procedures are a STARTING POINT!
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Active vs. Latent Failures
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The decline of a safety culture
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So many first steps in OSH turn out to be trips and falls
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Safety Classification and Learning (SCL) Model
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Celebrate your successes, just be confident in how they were achieved
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Working for an organization that shares your values (as a safety professional) is not easy
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Root Cause - Corrective Action (RCCA) is a tool
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PDCA model in Safety Management Systems
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Are we safety professionals/engineers or Wizards?
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I chose to look the other way (Video)
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Admiral Rickover’s 7 Steps to safety success
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Step 1 - Return to the SMS fundamentals (Hazard Identification)
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Don't let the tinsel on the tree blind you with the all the shine!
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A call for getting back to the basics
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The FRA Risk Reduction Program: A New Approach for Managing Railroad Safety
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PREVENTING Serious Injuries and Fatalities (SIF) - Managing RISKS rather than Injury Rates (ppt)
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Human Performance - The strategic approach to improving it (ppt)
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Risk Management inside a SMS (ppt)
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My take on "Work as imagined" vs. "Work as done"
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Safety is a privilege
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Understanding Dr. Reasons Vulnerable System Syndrome (VSS)
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Authentic leadership and work engagement: The indirect effects of psychological safety and trust in supervisors (Study)
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Workplace Trust and Safety Benefits
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The Scales of Safety
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Dr. Lloyd's Five (5) Principles of building Trust and Credibility
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HOP/HPI Presentation (Updated 2022)
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Assessing personal contributions to the enhancement of safety culture
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Which path is your culture on?
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #10 Work Processes
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #9 Environment for Raising Concerns
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #8 Problem Identification and Resolution
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #7 Continuous Learning
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #6 Respectful Work Environment
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #5 Decision-Making
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #4 Leadership Safety Values and Actions
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #3 Effective Safety Communication
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #2 Questioning Attitude
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The 5 Stages of Declining Safety Performance/Culture
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What makes an organization a "Learning Organization" and why is this critical to safety
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What is a "reporting culture" and why is it so critical to safety?
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What is "Conservative Decision Making"?
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SOPs play a critical role in establishing a safety structure to build from
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Simple yet brutal internal safety culture questions
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Which phase is your workplace safety culture in?
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What's more culturally dangerous and which would you rather have?
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Employee engagement/participation and "warm fuzzies"
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Bill Corcoran ruffled a few feathers, but damn he was always spot on!
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Does your workplace have a "Mikey"
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The story of the three little [safety] pigs
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Which SMS is better?
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Rules, Rules, everywhere there are Rules
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Dance with those who want to dance
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Understand Active and Latent Failures
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Comparing the Domino and the ILCI causation models
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Cheating in business is cheating in safety
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Real world difference between engineering controls and administrative controls
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My take on "Psychological Safety" and BBS
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The Journey to a Culture of Safety
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Safety Management Systems (SMS) Implementation Plan
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Understanding your decisions and the risks
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The fairy tale of the 3-C's (Concerned, Comfortable, Confident)
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Ten Traits of a World-Class Safety Culture - #1 Personal Accountability
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Sustained inattentional blindness in expert observers
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The Hierarchy of Responses, How Hazards Sink to the Bottom
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The Safety Process through the eyes of a Quality Assurance Process
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When the "Employee Participation" ain't what its cracked up to be!
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The learning pyramid... what works best
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Dr. Clive Lloyd discusses his five fundamentals to culture change
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Recognized Hazard vs. Realized Hazard
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A truly great boss is...
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Characteristics of a Safety Culture (Patrick Hudson, 2001)
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5 Stages of Psychological Safety Culture (Dr. Clive Lloyd)
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Risk... can you see it?
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“Our choices reveal our intentions”
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SAFETY LEADER'S CODE - I Believe... (Kevin Burns)
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What 5 gorillas, a cluster of bananas, and a water hose can teach us
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What If We Were All Meghan Vogel's?
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How do you look at safety and What does safety mean to you? Are you a fan or a follower?
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Exxon Mobil's cultural transformation
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I am a Safety Professional
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Accidents happen; it is a cold hard fact of this world. But how we respond to these accidents is what makes us different!
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TRIR shown to be no better at measuring outcomes than random roll of a dice (Video)
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Six steps to becoming respected SAFETY LEADER (Video)
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Making safety PERSONAL!
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We will all walk in Dr. Fauci's shoes one day
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The circle of safe(ty)
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Safety Management in 2022 - Leadership without an SMS?
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What it means to be a safety leader rather than a safey manager or engineer
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Safety is a selfish act
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The "Pit Crew" of the business
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Safety should not be #1
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How do we make "safety a value"?
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Safety is NOT a priority!
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Safety Aspirations vs Goals
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The Wizard of Oz of safety (Part 2)
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How do we define a "safe employee" and an "unsafe employee"?
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Your Saturday Safety Satire... Double Masking and the CDC
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Attributes of a “Safe Worker”
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Best personal and professional advice from Claude
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Certifications or Technical abilities, which are more important for our profession?
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Safety leaders and cultural responsibilities
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Imagine this was your injury chart... what would you do?
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COVID19 and trying to prove the value of safety to non-believers
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Reflection on COVID19 and our Industrial Safety Model
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Can we scare employees into working safely - after what I observed this week I am back to thinking... maybe!
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What does it mean when we say "operations own safety"?
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Safety Culture is not the responsibility of the safety team
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Safety is like the Wizard of Oz
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What is the FAMILY SAFETY STANDARD to work and live by?
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Times are'a changin' and our profession may be doomed
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A review of ISO 45001
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Safety thought of the day
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Safety culture or an amazingly obedient workforce?
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PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE
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Culture vs. Compliance
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Safety does not come naturally!
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Here's a tiny bit of safety data that will make your male employees pay attention
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Developing a Safety Culture is like raising kids
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What am I? (special edition for Safety Pro's)
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The difference between "hazard" and "risk"
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Accident Causation Models
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Hazardous Attitudes (Conklin)
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Mental biases that drive unsafe decision making
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Delusional Safety Syndrome (DSS)
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Looking for a FREE Safety Culture Survey?
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Odds of Dying 2015 (NSC)
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Safety irony of the week...
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Believe in what you do!
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Being a SAFETY LEADER is not easy...
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Obituary – A Wake up Call!
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“FROM ROUTINE TO NON ROUTINE”
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The Value of Self Assessments
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Safety Poem - I have to say goodbye today (LOTO)
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A Message to my friends and co-workers about Fatigue, Rushing, Frustration, Complacency!
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Injury Myths
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“An Accident Waiting To Happen”
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“SEAT BELTS”
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“SAFETY SPEAKING”
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“MOLE HILLS TO MOUNTAINS”
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“HURRY UP-- CAN HURT”
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Getting to ZERO! - See it, Believe it, Sell it, Achieve it!
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Reach out and Touch Someone -John W. Schlatter (true story)
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Unsafe Acts can be "Active Failures"
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WHO AM I? ... I AM CARELESSNESS
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“SAFETY” - “MEANS” A LOT
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“EXCUSES”
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“Eternal Mistakes”
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“SHORT CUTS”
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MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL - A SAFETY LEADERS CALL
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“Some Mistakes During Electrical Work” (By Jim White, Shermco Industries)
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“ZERO WORK HOURS WITHOUT TAKING A CHANCE”
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“Wet Weather Safety”
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GOOD LEADERS DON’T SET BAD EXAMPLES
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The Safety Poem... As I go to work today
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Safety Slogans
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AVOID THESE PITFALLS
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“Safety”- Be The Leader
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Safety from the perspective of EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, AND NOBODY
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On your child's Life (A Parents Safety Pledge)
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Health & Safety Test
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Who Packs Your Parachute
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SAFETY ATTITUDE
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TODAY'S CHOICE
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THE POWER OF RESPONSIBILITY
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How To Lead By Example
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Getting to our Goals - “Lesson from a Custodian"
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POWERFUL Safety Lesson (True Story)
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Attitude to Safety
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Make SAFETY a VALUE
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What does safety mean?
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FIVE HABITS OF VERY SAFE PEOPLE
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Five Distractions from Work
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Three Myths About Injuries
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Your personal accident-prevention plan
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Safety Quotes
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Silence Is Not Golden
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RESPONSIBILITY SAFETY
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ALWAYS BE SAFE
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CLOSE CALLS AND NEAR MISSES
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WE KNOW BETTER!!!!
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Employee Engagement
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Safety Bullet, Excuses
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PARAPROSDOKIANS
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Line Of Fire Hazards (Part 2)
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ZERO WORK HOURS WITHOUT TAKING A CHANCE
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Safety Appeal
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ITS UP TO YOU
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Accident Reporting and Prevention Awareness
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Can Do Attitude-Can Get You Killed
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SAFE WORK PRACTICE
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EYE PROTECTION AND FLYING OBJECTS
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Safety and Apathy
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PINCH POINTS AND YOUR HANDS
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Eyes, protecting your EYES
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“COMMITMENT TO SAFETY”
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RECOGNIZING AND CONTROLLING SLIP AND TRIP HAZARDS
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Caught in Hazards - Quiz
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SAFETY ATTITUDE
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“CORE VALUES AND SAFETY”
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EXPLODING TYRES ON MOBILE EQUIPMENT
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“SAFE WORK ZONES”
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“ATTITUDE/ BEVAHIOUR AND SAFETY”
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Setting The Example!!
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Traits of a Good Leader
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“Hazardous Behavior In The Workshop”
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DO YOU FOLLOW THE RULES
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“DON’T” TAKE YOUR EYES FOR GRANTED
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“Housekeeping”
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“Personal Responsibility“
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“Conscience Driven Safety”
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"BASICS”
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“Different Controls on Similar Equipment”
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“Avoiding Electrical Shock”
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“CRANE SAFETY”
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ADOPTING A “VIRAL” APPROACH TO SAFETY
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LINE OF FIRE HAZARDS PART 1
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“Personal Accident Prevention Plan”
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SILENCE AND UNSAFE PRACTICES
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“ALCOHOL AND THE JOB”
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“Depression And Personal Safety”
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“Hazardous Haste”
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CAR SAFETY: DISTRACTIONS FACED
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“Sharpening Our Axe”
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Home Early (WorkSafe Victoria)
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The video EVERY WORKER should see - "The Costs of Accidents" (Harsco Video)
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A Simple Safety Lesson
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I never kid about safety!
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What does an organizational culture that gives safety a priority look like? (Patrick Hudson, 2001)
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“I believe in Safety!”
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Sheldon Cooper the Safety Professional
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The Accident Insurance Policy
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Engineering Study, Toothpaste
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PRINCIPLES ABOUT THE LAW OF THE PICTURE (JOHN C. MAXWELL 21 LAWS OF LEADERSHIP)
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JUST FOR TODAY…
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The Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, Nobody Safety Committee
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“DOING THE RIGHT THING”
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Safety Attitude Survey
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Decisions, ITS YOUR DECISION
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I Resolve...
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"Safety Contacts" program proven effective by Israeli safety study
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EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY
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And That's How It Happens... Some Safety Policies are born!
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AFTERTHOUGHTS AND REGRETS…
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A SINGLE SECOND
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The Front Fell OFF! (PR effort after catastrophic accident)
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Ausgrid Stayin' Alive safety video
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"Chance"
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I AM - a Safety Radical
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If You Want Happiness - A Chinese Proverb
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Are accidents the evil poison we make them out to be?
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Psychology of Safety ----- Who are you kidding
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Coal Miner’s Family Prayer
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Where would we be without Safety Professionals?
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Safety Poem
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Start Each Day with Safety
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Risk vs Hazard
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SAFETY- SPEAKING IN QUOTES
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What's easier... getting someone to AVOID an UNSAFE ACT or to get them to COMMIT a SAFE ACT
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Safety Creed
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From the eyes of a Safety Professional
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Ready To Respond To An Electrical Emergency
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MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL! A SAFETY LEADERS CALL
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Maintaining Focus During The Working Day
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PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR SAFETY
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Safety is ALL ABOUT YOU!
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I’m Going Home… And so are You!
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Safety Culture
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Personal Accountability
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Definition of a Safety Professional
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WHY SAFETY PEOPLE ARE IMPORTANT
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Where does safety stop for a safety professional?
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911 Call - 28 year old crushed by forklift
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Safety Rap!
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For The Life of a Friend
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Workers Memorial Day 2011 Video
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Supervisor handling a workplace inspection (Video)
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Another GREAT video for safety professionals to laugh with
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Safety Supervisor Song
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TXTNG & Driving...It CAN WAIT!
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The More Routine The Task.. The Bigger The Safety Risk?
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Safety Communications...When is it too much?
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I Chose to Look The Other Way
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It's Up To Me
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Definition of a Safety Pro!
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Special Safety Message
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TOO EXPERIENCED
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Saturday with a Great Start - But Poor Finish
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The Funeral
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Establishing a Reporting Culture (Psychological Safety)
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Reason's 3 C's
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What is Error Management? (Reason, 1997)
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Fostering the principles for a strong safety culture is one of the most challenging tasks facing a management team
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Where is your safety culture?
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Accountability, Culpability and a "Just Culture" (Dr. James Reason)
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Accident Investigation - Barrier Analysis
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The Components of a "Safety Culture" (Reason, 1997)
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The Function of Safety Barriers (Layers of Protection)
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Safety Management Systems (ANSI/ISO/PSM/RMP/SIF)
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From Latent Conditions to Active Failures (Dr. James Reason Human Failure Model)
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Typical Questions for Addressing the Principles of a Safety Management System (SMS) in an Accident Investigation
