The Leader’s Role in Safety
By Phil La Duke There are a lot quixotic efforts out there to find the one key to making the workplace safety. This search for the safety equivalent of the city of Cibola has led to a lot of flakey...
View ArticleDo Your Safety Management Efforts Lack A Strategy?
By Phil La Duke Many of you (you know who you are) just read this headline and thought, “of course not we have a very clear strategy”. Some of you (not many in my experience) are absolutely correct,...
View ArticleThe Power of Pyramids: How Using Outmoded Thinking about Hazards Can Be Deadly
By Phil LaDuke Gallons of virtual ink have been used in writings condemning Heinrich’s Pyramid. But even though a significant population in the safety industry question its validity not only does...
View ArticleThe Problem with Safety
By Phil La Duke Last week’s post that asked why Heinrich’s Pyramid was so popular across all industry segments despite being largely discredited by many in the safety industry angered up some of your...
View ArticleWorker Injuries May Take Years to Become a Fatality
By Phil LaDuke I have more than a couple of people question my motives in writing about safety. I have had more than a few criticize me for not being more polite, professional, or whatever euphemism...
View ArticleWWPD (What Would Phil Do)?
By Phil La Duke One glance at that title and it would seem I am back in my full arrogant splendor, but I hope you will reserve judgment until you’ve read my explanation. After last week’s post, in...
View ArticleReverse Engineering Safety Offerings
By Phil La Duke I don’t have all the answers; not about safety and not about anything else. Furthermore, as much as it may seem to the contrary, I don’t even THINK that I have all the answers, but...
View ArticleWho Gives A Crap About Ice?
By Phil La Duke This week I published my sixth article in Entrepreneur. In Adapt Or Die–Some Chilling Lessons From the Ice Industry I started out writing a piece on the importance of sustainability, my...
View ArticleAre Your Awareness Campaigns Just Trivia?
By Phil La Duke In the U.S. October marks national breast-cancer awareness month which manifests itself with people and products festooned in pink. There. Now you are aware of breast cancer. What...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Discipline
By Phil La Duke Safety professionals take great pains to engage workers in safety. While it’s true that engaged workers tend to be more concerned about the safety of the workplace worker engagement...
View ArticleAre We Imbeciles?
By Phil La Duke Each week I hammer out another missive on the state of safety and each week I worry that I may have exhausted the well when it comes to offering up suggestions for improving the safety...
View ArticleBaked: Dealing with the Growing Problem of Workplace Drug Use
By Phil LaDuke Continuing my series of blog coverage of the EH&S Today’s Leadership Conference I wanted to point out another great session that I attended. In High Society: Substance Abuse...
View ArticleThe Expectation of Safety
By Phil LaDuke I hate the Darwin Awards. For those unfamiliar with the concept, the Darwin Awards are “commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.” Effectively people...
View ArticleWhere’s the Value In “Safety Day”?
By Phil LaDuke Next week I will be conducting the activities surrounding “safety day”. As leader and as a safety practitioner I was the logical selection. The notion of me getting up in front of a...
View ArticleIncentives and Indicators
By Phil La Duke The use of incentives is something of the Great White Whale of safety. Safety practitioners often find mounting pressure to use incentives to reduce workplace injuries. Incentives are...
View ArticleWorshiping at the altar of false gods
By Phil La Duke Yesterday was the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Last week I buried an uncle. He, like his brother before him, my father, died the agonizing death that only mesothelioma...
View ArticleInsights on Culture
By Phil LaDuke On Friday I went to the neighborhood bar as I am wont to do from time to time. While there I saw a regular who works with my brother in an open die forge. I passed the pleasantries with...
View ArticleWhy BBS will Live Forever
By Phil La Duke Just when you think the debate over Behavior-Based Safety has faded from the landscape something brings it crashing back into your consciousness. For me it was a recent article (and the...
View Article2014 New Year’s Resolutions for Safety Professionals
by Phil LaDuke Last year I wrote a list of New Year’s resolutions for Safety Professionals. The piece proved popular and people this time of year seem to come looking for them. I decided to write this...
View ArticleLone-Gunman Based Safety
By Phil La Duke Ever since Jack Ruby gunned down Lee Harvey Oswald while being transferred from a Dallas police station to county jail debate has raged as to whether or not Oswald acted alone or if he...
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