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Browse Balmert Consulting articles about Hazard/Risk, with practical safety leadership ideas for frontline teams and managers.
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A Simple Job
November 29, 2019
This month Paul examines lessons learned from a fatality doing a “Simple” clean-up job at a restaurant. The discussion is central to understanding how we perceive hazards and take risks. He provides some very interesting insight into the things that can get someone hurt, hurt seriously, or worse.
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Ever Vigilant
November 15, 2019
Recognizing what can hurt you is a constant and never-ending process. No matter who you are, where you are, or what you happen to be doing, you need to be on the lookout for what can hurt you.
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Fatal Assumptions
October 16, 2019
Making assumptions may make work and life easier, but it does not make life and work safer. In fact, it often works in exactly the opposite way.
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Work Done Here
September 30, 2019
This month Paul examines lessons learned from improvised tools and work methods where the odds of a hazard are a lot higher and there is a potential for creative problem solvers to be taking too much risk.
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Improvisation
September 16, 2019
Sometimes solutions are the stuff of genius. But not every one of those solutions turns out to be great – or safe. Here’s just such a case.
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Go – or Stop?
August 30, 2019
This month in Go —or Stop? Paul examines lessons learned from another first day on the job in industry. This one went totally different than my first day but also made a lasting impression and offers some very important lessons not to be soon forgotten.
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Asking “Should?”
August 15, 2019
Brand new to the world of industry, it’s your first day on the job. You’ve been given your first assignment: a seemingly simple clean up task. Having been given no training, getting ready to start…
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Managing Risk: The Right Stuff
July 31, 2019
This month in Managing Risk: The Right Stuff Paul examines lessons learned about managing risk in the space program. He provides four very important lessons that need to be understood about risk and sending people, to the moon and/or home alive and well at the end of each and every day.
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Missing The Obvious
July 15, 2019
Over the first decade of manned spaceflight in the US, no human life was lost in space. In managing risk, there no greater success story…
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