Bootstrapping Workplace Safety — Episode 97 of the Safety Labs Podcast
Mary Conquest asked me a question on the Safety Labs Podcast that I haven’t stopped thinking about. Why are safety professionals surrounded by good ideas — and still struggle to make them stick? I didn’t have a clean answer. Thirty years in construction and energy will teach you that the gap between knowing and doing […]
Post-Incident Leadership Response: The Questions You Ask in the First 24 Hours
The investigation starts before you think it does. After something goes wrong, leaders are under pressure to respond quickly. The instinct is to find out what happened, identify who was involved, and close the loop fast. So they ask: Those questions signal what the investigation is really for. Workers pick that up fast. They answer […]