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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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Certain
June 19, 2019
Being sure. Thinking you’re sure. Acting as though you are sure. We do it all the time. In one sense, it’s impossible not to. To live a normal life, you have to….
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Sixth Sense
May 15, 2019
The five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. Together they form the foundation of hazard recognition, done real time where we live and work. There is also the notion of a sixth sense…
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Working Alone
April 15, 2019
Every industry has its own set of hazards. In the construction business, one of the biggest is trenching and excavation. To insure that work is done safely there is a rigorous set…
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Safety Rules Illustrated: Crossing the Street
March 15, 2019
How many safety rules are there? Nobody knows for sure. But one thing is for sure: every rule exists for a simple reason…
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Inspect Equipment Before Use
February 18, 2019
There’s always a reason for every safety rule, and it’s not the least bit difficult to figure out what the reason is for that piece of advice.
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A Simple Task
January 17, 2019
If there is one good thing to be said about the hazards all of us are regularly exposed to as we make a living, it is this: people are hard targets to hit. It takes a lot for the stars to align…
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No Laughing Matter!
December 7, 2018
Safety is serious business, but that hasn’t stopped some from poking fun at the way those of us who work for a living get hurt. Before he became famous as a Cajun chef….
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Ranking Hazards
November 15, 2018
If you’re someone who works with your hands, on the list of hazards you face doing your job, how high would you rank Power Tools? …….
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Failure To Learn?
October 31, 2018
In this month’s Managing Safety Performance News, Paul examines the problem of failing to learn and there is a lesson we should not fail to learn. He focuses on the real problem of the perception of risk, aka, probability.
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