Paul Balmert

Leadership

Your Gift

This month Paul, during this season of giving, examines lessons learned from the past that might suggest the best gifts you can give if your goal is sending your followers home alive and well at the end of the day. It really got me thinking and I think it will for you as well.

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Hazard/Risk

Working Alone

In this edition Paul poses some important questions anyone who ever works alone needs to ask – and answer – for themselves.

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Execution

A Simple Job

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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Hazard/Risk

Ever Vigilant

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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Compliance

Earbud Nation

This month Paul examines lessons learned from a highway construction fatality where earbuds were involved. The discussion is central to understanding hazards and risk both personally and for those you work with. This may be the most important newsletter that Paul has written and he has written a lot of good ones.

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Hazard/Risk

Fatal Assumptions

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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Execution

Work Done Here

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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Hazard/Risk

Improvisation

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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Hazard/Risk

Go – or Stop?

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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Hazard/Risk

Asking “Should?”

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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Near Miss – Or Sure Thing?

In this mont’s Flash, we take a look at one near miss that very well could have been a hit. In doing so, we’ll ask one very important question that can help you in sending folks home, Alive and Well.

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Earbud Nation

This month Paul examines multitasking and distracted walking. From his own experience as a pedestrian and data in a recent report he draws some lessons that can help us back on the job with earbuds, hazard recognition, and distracted working, including walking and driving.

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New People

Last month Paul made a presentation in Louisville. His presentation was preceded by two researchers presenting their findings. Paul latched on to the data and started looking for the story in the numbers that would help good leaders send those who follow them home alive and well. His finding of the story in the numbers is fascinating and important.

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What’s Normal?

This month Paul asks what “normal” looks like when it comes to wearing PPE. It’s a simple question, and one well worth asking.

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THE Priority

This month Bill Wilson, one of our senior consultant/teachers, examines the decision making that can lead to people getting seriously injured or worse at work. He discusses why part of the problem may be found in the defining and communicating of priorities. He helps us focus on what really matters when it comes to setting and making THE Priority the priority.

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Intervening On – And Off – The Job

In this edition of the Flash we look and the difference in approach required when intervening on safety outside of the workplace. The difference is an important one, and knowing it will help you make a bigger difference back on the job, too.

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Responsibility

This month Paul examines the responsibilities of leaders, especially when the goal is to make sure everyone goes home alive and well at the end of each and every shift. He explores the challenges of getting everyone working safely and the supervisor’s responsibility for making sure that happens.

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Perceiving Hazards

This month Paul looks into how our minds recognize and perceive different types of hazards. You might not be surprised to hear that we aren’t always the best at recognizing what is most likely to hurt us.

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A Lesson from the Richest Man in Town

This month Paul unravels the mystery of the handshake. Not only does he solve it, but he ties it together with Jimmy Stewart’s It’s A Wonderful Life AND the goal of sending people home alive and well at the end of the day.

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Keeping The Lights On

In this month’s Flash Paul nudges us to remember what is most important, and shares some perspective on how to think better when a task seems critical.

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