... making. An entirely new field has developed that examines the cognitive processes involved, and identifies natural failures in the process that undermine sound decision making. Based on this body of research, Tom Krause and Kristen Bell began to study its implications on safety performance improvement...

... how these elements can foster an improved culture of prevention in the ever-growing sector of outsourced operations. These findings highlight the importance of consistent expectations and requirements tailored to local operating conditions in order to drive safety performance. Through use of a system...

...Session No. 716 Goal Setting for Continuous Safety Improvement Michael Fackler, MS, CSP, ARM Eastern Alliance Insurance Carmel, Indiana Introduction While it is easy to understand why an organization would want to improve safety performance, it is much more challenging to prescribe how...

... organization, culture drives safety performance. Consequently, a change in culture must precede a significant change in safety outcomes. What is culture? Merriam Webster defines it as "the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time; a particular society that has its own...

...Session No. 576 The Eleven Practices That Separate Companies Who Sustain World-Class Safety Performance James Spigener Senior Vice President DEKRA Insight Oxnard, California Introduction What sets the best safety performers apart? How do they consistently sustain outcomes others struggle to reach...

... safety patient safety joint commission accreditation safety performance Session No. 707 Beyond the OSHA Log: Safety Management Systems for Health Care Matt Austin, M.S.P.H., C.I.H. Manager, Occupational & Environmental Safety Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota Andrew I. S. Vaughn, M.D., M.P.H...

.... metals & mining safety climate risk group personality factor risk assessment safe behavior supervisor incident cognitive failure safety recordable injury consumer health personality assessment safety performance health & medicine conscientiousness characteristic psychology...

... Statistics Your Management Tracks? How is Your Management Performance Measured? How is Your Management Bonus System Arranged? A New Way to Measure, Manage & Report Risk & Safety Performance What is Your Company s Gross Revenue What is Your Company s Gross Profit What is Your Company s Net Profit...

... are putting forward is that in order to achieve world-class safety performance, safety must be integrated into the overarching culture of the entire enterprise. In other words, safety has to be part of the DNA of the enterprise, not something appended to it. Think about it. Does an enterprise have a separate...

... as: Leadership, managers and front-line associates jointly focusing on safety and proactively working together in a business entity to minimize the possibility of harm and maximize safety performance. Creating a genuine safety partnership, therefore, means management and the workforce jointly working toward...

... Is Peer Benchmarking? In the context of this paper, peer benchmarking is a process in which an organisation compares its own health and safety performance to the performance of other organizations, either within their industry or beyond. The scope, nature and depth of the benchmarking exercise can vary...

... the development of safety competency of Hispanic workers' front-line supervisors to help improve their safety performance. The pdf file of this paper is in Spanish. Introducción En año 2014, 789 trabajadores hispanos murieron en los Estados Unidos de América (EUA) por lesiones relacionadas al trabajo...

... you can't measure." In fact, he stated that one of the seven deadly diseases of management is running a company on visible figures alone. This is perhaps the best place to start and allows a certain latitude in respect of not only the measurement of safety performance; be that actual or cultural...

... Introduction Existing research provides insights into the role that organizational leaders play in influencing safety performance and outcomes in their workplace (Cree and Kelloway, 1997; Shannon, Mayr, and Haines, 1997; Barling, Loughlin, and Kelloway, 2002; Zohar, 1980). These researchers...

... Introduction For the past 25 years the author and his associates have worked with numerous organizations across the globe to improve safety performance. The one constant appears to be that the key ingredient to success is the quality of safety leadership. Defined as "The process of defining...

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... to an organization's employees, but all its stakeholders. In order to sustain its business and survive long into the future, any organization must continually improve health and safety performance. However, it must also be understood that these dimensions of sustainability must be seen as interdependent. Over...

... system is being introduced differently than yesterday; and as organizational distractions increase, you can be sure new threats are impacting your safety performance. Controlling process variation is not a new concept but fundamental in any effective safety management system. In quality circles, a basic...

... information they can apply to their effort to reduce workplace injuries and illness and develop a culture of safety: supervisor occupation bottom line day away us government workplace injury hazard front-line supervisor construction inspection communication safety culture safety performance...

... per year revealing that it is still one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States. (BLS 2013a). Historically, the construction industry has defined safety performance through the measurement and assessment of lagging indicators; injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. These lagging indicator...