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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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Assumptions
October 15, 2018
We make assumptions all the time. When it comes to safety, we routinely rely on those assumptions to keep ourselves safe. In the vast majority of cases, no harm comes from doing that.
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Click It or ….?
September 14, 2018
Not all safety rules are followed the way they’re supposed to be. Board an airplane, and there is one that is followed 100% of the time. Every single time a flight takes off.
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Hazard Recognition: What’s the Problem?
August 31, 2018
In this month’s Managing Safety Performance News, Paul turns his attention to diagnosing the problem of hazard recognition. You could attribute Kettering’s quote, above, to my father or Paul. Both masters of — solve the right problem! Sometimes you have to think differently, they did/do. When it comes to hazard recognition Paul’s message is critical to sending people home alive and well at the end of the day.
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Knowing the Hazards
August 15, 2018
Here’s today’s question about hazards: things that can hurt you. Think back in time to all the times you got hurt – including the minor cuts and scrapes, bumps and bruises, and the close calls where you almost got hurt…
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Danger: Falling Objects
July 13, 2018
Some companies have a rule about working under a suspended load: in a word, DON’T. Every company safety rule on the planet exists for a simple reason: something bad happened, and the rule will make sure it doesn’t happen again.
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Safe to Assume?
June 29, 2018
In this month’s Managing Safety Performance News, as you probably assumed, Paul discusses the assumptions we all make… and don’t assume you know what he is going to say. You might be surprised.
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Assuming That
June 15, 2018
When it comes to our personal safety – at work and at home – we make a huge number of assumptions about things and people every day. Little ones and big ones.
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Victims of Culture
May 15, 2018
Culture is best defined as “the way things really are around here.” That means every operation everywhere in the world has a safety culture.
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Good Questions
April 13, 2018
In our classes, we like to ask Darn Good Questions. Here are a few that you might want to answer – or, even better, ask others.
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