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Browse Balmert Consulting articles about Process Improvement, with practical safety leadership ideas for frontline teams and managers.
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A Case Study
May 1, 2026
This month Paul explains that investigation reports are valuable leadership tools not simply because they identify technical causes, but because they reveal how familiar execution challenges—such as limited training, inexperience, weak supervision coverage, fatigue, time pressure, and inconsistent use of PPE—combine to produce serious outcomes. The primary purpose of an investigation is to help ensure an event does not happen again, but equally important is the Performance Visibility investigations provide: a clearer understanding of what is actually happening where work is being performed.
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Managing Success
July 31, 2025
In this month’s Managing Safety Performance, Bill Wilson explores the importance of analyzing and understanding success with the same diligence that organizations typically reserve for failures. He argues that leaders often overlook everyday successes, missing the opportunity to identify and replicate what works. He makes the case that by focusing on success organizations can focus resources on impactful initiatives, reduce waste, and improve long-term performance—ultimately making sustained improvement a strategic priority rather than a lucky outcome.
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The Holidays
December 13, 2024
This month Paul dives into the application of the Scientific Method to better understand factors that drive safety performance. He offers up a hypothesis worth testing when things are going well, and some advice on how best to examine the evidence if safety performance isn’t what it ought to be.
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