Texting while driving has continued to grow as a menace on our highways. I’m sure, like me that you regularly see someone texting when you're at a red light or you pass one other. A book I just finished, A Deadly Wandering—A [...]
My longtime friend Robert gave his first paid talk last week. Here's an excerpt from a text he sent me after he'd given the talk: "I was in the warehouse during a big storm and the roll-up doors kept banging. It was [...]
Habits drive much of our behavior. They often have a strong impact on our health and wellbeing. Habits can also drive a companies overall safety success, particularly what Charles Duhigg calls "keystone" habits in his book The Power of Habit [...]
During my days as a safety professional at Hope Creek Nuclear Generating station in New Jersey, an employee was walking along a safe walkway (no need whatsoever for a hard hat or safety glasses) and a stick fell from the sky [...]
A BRILLANT SOLUTION TO AN AGE-OLD DEBATE I don’t recall the first time it happened but I know it was several years ago. Someone told me I shouldn’t use the word accident, when referring to an event where someone or [...]
(Can you really make discipline fun?!) Tina was a tall, energetic and well-liked mechanic who worked at Hope Creek Generating Station in New Jersey. At the time, I was the Safety Supervisor for the site. During one of my morning [...]
Hello Again, One of my favorite magazines is National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com. Not just because of the amazing photography, but because I get a bunch of ideas and insights that I can use to improve my business (talks, blog, products, articles, [...]
Yesterday in Safety Stuff #450 I ended the issue with a brief but thought-provoking first person essay from a subscriber about being prepared for a disaster. Well, today I got some feedback on the subject from another subscriber John Musselman [...]
Good Day, “The passengers aboard KLM Flight 4805 didn’t know it, but they were in the hands of one of the most experienced and accomplished pilots in the world.” That’s how the first chapter of SWAY The Irresistible Pull of [...]
Last week a friend told me he almost ran into a car that swerved into his lane on a local road. The person driving the car was texting! I wonder how prevalent that is. I’ll bet a lot more than [...]