Safety programs focus on making impressive milestones, for example, a global company in 2021 hit one million hours worked with no OSHA recordable injuries, starting in 2020. The team worked more than two years (more than 1.2M hours) without a recordable injury. OSHA defines a recordable injury as an injury that requires more than first […]
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People have an amazing ability to adapt to what is expected. However, at times they can also be unpredictable, and at worst behave in ways that are unreliable. At its core BBS is about believing in people! Consider the other side of safety, the pure BBS side of safety that drives safety performance, and the
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Science is exact. What was the true root of the problem? It’s a challenge to sift through so many symptoms, but my research revealed that dysfunctional leadership, combined with the practice of RBS is the root problem in the safety industry. This realization regarding the safety industry has shaped my frustration and has driven my
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RBS is steeped in a flawed leadership philosophy that is a top-down approach. Leadership is about influence, but when a person has a title of position, but doesn’t have the ability to influence, bad things happen. Positional leaders revert to leveraging their positional authority and become dictatorial in their leadership style. This is where they
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Results Based Safety is rooted in bad leadership. Business and safety leaders have this misguided view that they make the important decisions, they tell people what to do, and the workers need to follow the great leader, and if they do, results will be achieved. If they don’t do as they are told, then there
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Business and safety leaders face ever-increasing expectations and obligations placed on them. The world is infatuated with results, and the world of safety is the same, and zero accidents is the ultimate achievement. However, how zero is achieved has become dysfunctional. Cynical safety leaders argue with inept safety experts on which dysfunctional practice is better
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Traditional safety is Results Based Safety. Led by safety organizations like OSHA, IOSH, NEBOSH, Safe Work Australia, British Safety Council, Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety, Health and Safety Authority, and Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, along with business and safety leaders, have become fully focused on safety results, and they have confused
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