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Browse Balmert Consulting articles about Leadership, with practical safety leadership ideas for frontline teams and managers.
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What’s The Problem?
September 30, 2024
This month Paul discusses problem solving when things go wrong at work that rise to the level of an investigation. He calls on his experience and expertise doing “Root Cause of Root Cause Investigations” to examine the quality and usefulness of the investigation findings. More importantly he discusses the critical importance of finding the truth about what really happened and why. His findings are very important whether the investigations you are responsible for are for little things or rise to the level of a full-scale root cause analysis.
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Shooting Straight
July 31, 2024
This month Paul dives into the topic of effective management communication, and the importance of “Shooting Straight” when it comes to managing safety.
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The Investigation Process
June 28, 2024
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.
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Influencing Safety Performance
May 31, 2024
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.
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Earbud Nation
April 30, 2024
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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THE Priority
February 29, 2024
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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Responsibility
January 31, 2024
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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A Lesson from the Richest Man in Town
December 21, 2023
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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The Risk Takers
November 30, 2023
This month, Jay Bizarro is our guest contributor and shares more of his great thinking about how to do exactly that and improve safety performance. He introduces us to “skydivers”, “The Safety Switch”, “The Probability Problem”, and “The Unsafe Behavior Database.”
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