A Pyramid By Any Other Name
by Phil La Duke In the past weeks I have challenged safety practitioners to view safety differently, to see beyond the fads, the snake oil, and to see safety for what it is, the product of well-managed...
View ArticleI Factory Rat
By Phil La Duke This week I conclude my series of posts on safety as an outcome. I began these articles by asking you to rethink safety; to think of it not as a discreet element unto itself, but as the...
View ArticleSafety Slogans Don’t Save Lives
By Phil La Duke It’s tough to bring professionalism to a trade that actively looks to make itself look stupid. There’s only so many hours in the day and only so many resources and if we are wasting...
View ArticleIndicators Are Meaningless Unless They Lead to Managing Performance
By Phil La Duke You don’t get great outputs by managing results, you get great outputs by managing performance such that you produce great results. In safety we have spent a century trying to manage...
View ArticleSafety In the Age of Wikipidiots
By Phil La Duke “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt”—Mark Twain I haven’t posted an original post in over a month. I...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Safety Theocracy
By Phil La Duke “You’d be surprised at how many companies don’t care about losing money”—A colleague when I showed him my presentation and case studies demonstrating my ability to lower companies’...
View ArticleChanging The Safety Culture: You Got To Want It
By Phil LaDuke To some extent the world is driven by desire, and I have said (quoting a long-time friend) that you always have the time and money for what is truly important to you. As I continue...
View ArticleFeeling Unappreciated? Maybe You Invite the Abuse
By Phil LaDuke There’s no denying the job of a safety professional can be tough. Between opportunistic vendors pushing snake oil, trenchant Operations leaders willing to take unreasonable risks, and...
View ArticleCombustible Dust: How Crackpots Endanger Safety
By Phil La Duke Most of us know the dangers of combustible dust, how when there is a critical mass of fine explosive material—whether it be flour or sawdust—all it takes is a spark to set of...
View ArticleWhen is Your Safety Meeting Not A Safety Meeting?
By Phil La Duke A common leading indicator for safety is involvement in safety meetings, but to risk sounding like Bill Clinton’s infamous “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” quote...
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