Safety

Does Behavior Affect Safety in the Workplace?

by Bart Gragg

“Any landing you walk away from is a good landing.” I grew up around small airplanes and larger than life pilots and had heard that quite often. Pilots are human, too. Since safety is largely dealing with the issue of problem solving – “How do we get the job done and walk away from it alive and unscathed?” it would be helpful to know how people are likely to attack a particular problem. The way problems are solved vary with the individual.

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Is Prior Experience (or Training) A Guarantee of Future Safety?

by Bart Gragg

From time immemorial man has discussed whether prior experience is a guarantee of future results from an employee.  There are ever many factors involved in ‘guess-timating’ their potential for success, but the one that I continually come back to is “In what context will they be a success? What are your criteria??

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