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Beyond the Rules
October 15, 2025
In this months Flash we look at the importance of Safety Rules, and a very critical concept about the rules that ensures they help keep us safe.
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My Supervisor
September 30, 2025
In this month’s Managing Safety Performance News Paul takes on the challenge of trust and credibility in leadership—he discusses why they’re eroding at the top, why supervisors hold the real advantage, and what that means for influencing followers to work safe. He makes the case that trust is not a given but a hard-earned reward—and the most powerful tool any leader has for sending everyone home safe, every day.
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Setbacks
September 16, 2025
In this month’s Flash we take a look at setbacks, and the unique opportunity they provide to a leader in ensuring followers know and understand what is most important.
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Blowing The Whistle
August 28, 2025
In this month’s Managing Safety Performance News Paul reflects on the investigations into Challenger and the Titan submersible. From Richard Feynman’s ice-water demonstration to the Coast Guard’s scathing report, Paul points out that history shows how truth can be buried, warnings ignored, and lives lost.
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Leading With Questions
August 18, 2025
In this month’s Flash, we look at the important role questions have in ensuring Followers understand hazards and safe work practices.
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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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Don’t Know What You Don’t Know?
July 17, 2025
In this month’s Flash, we take a look at one method that can help when it comes to discovering problems unknown to leadership.
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Complacency Arising?
June 30, 2025
This month, Paul examines the challenge of complacency for leaders and their followers. He asks the question when was the last time you read an investigation report that began, “The root cause of this terrible tragedy can be found in the simple fact that so many of those involved failed to treat things as seriously as they needed to be”? For some reason, it’s rare for complacency to be described as the cause of a safety event. He goes on to discuss what to do about the problem of complacency.
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Without Warning?
June 16, 2025
This month’s Flash is prompted by several high profile catastrophic failures. While they’ll be the subject of in-depth investigation, they immediately raise a vitally important question for anyone interested in safety: how to decide what “non-event” events to take seriously?
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