Items Tagged with 'Safety leadership'

Gennifer Lyon from DEKRA Insight explains how “creating connections and gathering data from various organizational viewpoints creates an opportunity to develop a predictive model for preventing incidents.”

Washington – Dean McKenzie has been appointed director of OSHA’s Directorate of Construction.

Michael Mangan from DEKRA Insight discusses the unintended consequences that can result from an organization’s focus on urgency.

Michael D. Mangan from DEKRA Insight discusses why “investigating and analyzing these hazards and weak signals to determine the exposure to operations” is just as important as anticipating and recognizing hazards.

Washington – T.F. Scott Darling III was confirmed by the Senate as administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on July 14, nearly two years after becoming acting administrator.

Michael D. Mangan from DEKRA Insight discusses why “the signals of looming disaster aren’t always easy to detect” and details four practices that contribute to high-reliability performance.

Susan L. Koen from RoundTheClock Resources, a partner of DEKRA Insight, discusses why the way standard operating procedures are designed, written, accessed and practiced “literally can make the difference between life and death.”

Jim Spigener from DEKRA Insight details why the downturn in the oil industry is also producing “some very real, very serious implications to safety both at the worker level and in the process safety arena.”