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Baked: Dealing with the Growing Problem of Workplace Drug Use
By Phil LaDuke Continuing my series of blog coverage of the EH&S Today’s Leadership Conference I wanted to point out another great session that I attended. In High Society: Substance Abuse...
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Taking a New Look At Safety
By Phil La Duke Let me begin by thanking all of you who voiced your support for me over the past week. As you may have surmised I get frustrated from time to time, mostly because so many safety...
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Discouraging Workers from Reporting Injuries Is Bad Business
By Phil La Duke Under-reporting injuries is a poor business practice bordering on criminal behavior. Nowhere was this better evidence than when the U.S. government leveed a whopping $70 million fine...
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Lone-Gunman Based Safety
By Phil La Duke Ever since Jack Ruby gunned down Lee Harvey Oswald while being transferred from a Dallas police station to county jail debate has raged as to whether or not Oswald acted alone or if he...
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2014 New Year’s Resolutions for Safety Professionals
by Phil LaDuke Last year I wrote a list of New Year’s resolutions for Safety Professionals. The piece proved popular and people this time of year seem to come looking for them. I decided to write this...
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Why BBS will Live Forever
By Phil La Duke Just when you think the debate over Behavior-Based Safety has faded from the landscape something brings it crashing back into your consciousness. For me it was a recent article (and the...
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Insights on Culture
By Phil LaDuke On Friday I went to the neighborhood bar as I am wont to do from time to time. While there I saw a regular who works with my brother in an open die forge. I passed the pleasantries with...
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Worshiping at the altar of false gods
By Phil La Duke Yesterday was the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Last week I buried an uncle. He, like his brother before him, my father, died the agonizing death that only mesothelioma...
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Incentives and Indicators
By Phil La Duke The use of incentives is something of the Great White Whale of safety. Safety practitioners often find mounting pressure to use incentives to reduce workplace injuries. Incentives are...
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Where’s the Value In “Safety Day”?
By Phil LaDuke Next week I will be conducting the activities surrounding “safety day”. As leader and as a safety practitioner I was the logical selection. The notion of me getting up in front of a...
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The Expectation of Safety
By Phil LaDuke I hate the Darwin Awards. For those unfamiliar with the concept, the Darwin Awards are “commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.” Effectively people...
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Baked: Dealing with the Growing Problem of Workplace Drug Use
By Phil LaDuke Continuing my series of blog coverage of the EH&S Today’s Leadership Conference I wanted to point out another great session that I attended. In High Society: Substance Abuse...
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Are We Imbeciles?
By Phil La Duke Each week I hammer out another missive on the state of safety and each week I worry that I may have exhausted the well when it comes to offering up suggestions for improving the safety...
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The Importance Of Discipline
By Phil La Duke Safety professionals take great pains to engage workers in safety. While it’s true that engaged workers tend to be more concerned about the safety of the workplace worker engagement...
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Are Your Awareness Campaigns Just Trivia?
By Phil La Duke In the U.S. October marks national breast-cancer awareness month which manifests itself with people and products festooned in pink. There. Now you are aware of breast cancer. What...
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Who Gives A Crap About Ice?
By Phil La Duke This week I published my sixth article in Entrepreneur. In Adapt Or Die–Some Chilling Lessons From the Ice Industry I started out writing a piece on the importance of sustainability, my...
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Reverse Engineering Safety Offerings
By Phil La Duke I don’t have all the answers; not about safety and not about anything else. Furthermore, as much as it may seem to the contrary, I don’t even THINK that I have all the answers, but...
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WWPD (What Would Phil Do)?
By Phil La Duke One glance at that title and it would seem I am back in my full arrogant splendor, but I hope you will reserve judgment until you’ve read my explanation. After last week’s post, in...
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Worker Injuries May Take Years to Become a Fatality
By Phil LaDuke I have more than a couple of people question my motives in writing about safety. I have had more than a few criticize me for not being more polite, professional, or whatever euphemism...
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The Problem with Safety
By Phil La Duke Last week’s post that asked why Heinrich’s Pyramid was so popular across all industry segments despite being largely discredited by many in the safety industry angered up some of your...
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