Leadership
Shooting Straight
This month Paul dives into the topic of effective management communication, and the importance of “Shooting Straight” when it comes to managing safety.
July 31, 2024
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Execution
The Investigation Process
In this month’s Managing Safety Performance News Paul shares his journey to understanding and investigating problems and stirs the pot to examine the investigative process. He, once again, asks questions about the process that are easy to ask but you might find the answers troubling. He and Bill Wilson, a Balmert Consulting teacher and consultant, make the point that problems and successes are treasures and knowing how to properly investigate them deserves your attention.
June 28, 2024
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First Impressions and Safety
In this month’s Flash, we take a look at working with someone new and the importance first impressions have when it comes to working safely.
June 17, 2024
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Leadership
Influencing Safety Performance
This month Paul examines who in management has the most control and influence over sending people home alive and well at the end of each and every shift every day. I’ll let him tell you the logical and correct answer and to share what knowledge and skills are needed by each of those team members responsible for making it happen.
May 31, 2024
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Safety Meeting Topics
Near Miss – Or Sure Thing?
In this month’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.
May 15, 2024
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Compliance
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.
April 30, 2024
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Execution
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.
March 28, 2024
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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.
March 18, 2024
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Leadership
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.
February 29, 2024
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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.
February 16, 2024
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Accountability
This month, we are pleased to feature an article by Newton Scavone, one of our most experienced members of the Balmert teaching team, based in São Paulo. Newton started as a client learning and using the MSP tools, then became one of the leaders developed to teach the course inside his company. For the last six years, many of you have known him as a Balmert Consulting teacher. He brings deep operational credibility and a clear understanding of what it takes to make these tools work in the real world.
Enough Said?
In this month’s Flash, we take a look at a very important first step to ensure conversations go as well as they ought to when expectations around safety haven’t been met.
Managing Hazards
This month, Paul takes on one of the toughest challenges every leader faces — managing hazards. Not just the big, obvious ones that make the “A List,” but the ordinary, everyday things that cause most of the injuries. He reminds us that managing hazards isn’t about eliminating every risk; it’s about handling them — and the people around them — “with a degree of skill and care.”
Beyond the Rules
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.
My Supervisor
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.
Setbacks
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.
Blowing The Whistle
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.
Leading With Questions
In this month’s Flash, we look at the important role questions have in ensuring Followers understand hazards and safe work practices.
Managing Success
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.
Don’t Know What You Don’t Know?
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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