Situational Awareness
Situational Awareness: Defining It & Enhancing It Has your mind ever wandered while you were driving down the highway? Have you ever been so lost in thought that you drove right past your exit ramp? When I ask people in safety workshops to raise their hand if they ever zoomed past a highway exit because they weren’t paying attention, I almost always see 100% of the people raise their hand (and the people who don’t raise their hand were probably not paying attention to the question!) Do you realize that in this kind of situation, your...
read moreTime Management is Safety Commitment Management
Worldwide, safety champions and industry leaders strive to maximize their effectiveness on the job. And I’ve noticed that no matter what industries these leaders are working in, they often complain of having a similar problem: lack of time for getting everything completed. Now you might think that there are many other things to discuss in a behavior-based safety newsletter, but time management skills can certainly contribute to the overall effectiveness of a company’s safety process. When people commit to certain actions in order to ensure...
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Building Safety Commitment was officially launched at the Behavior Safety Now conference in Reno, Nevada this October. My colleague Grainne Matthews and I presented a well-attended pre-conference workshop, and I had the opportunity to present “Building Safety Commitment for Leaders” as a breakout session during the convention. Observation and Feedback are the heart and soul of behavioral safety, so I was very pleased to have many people at the conference observing my workshops and giving me feedback about the material… and the...
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