Leading for Safety Excellence

Stop Policing Safety. Start Engineering Excellence.

What you will discover inside:

• The Anatomy of a Work System: Learn to move past the Myth of the Broken Part (firing the "careless" worker) and look at the invisible web of relationships, pressures, and conditions that dictate human behavior.
• The Power of the Tactical Pause: Discover how to train your "slow brain" (cerebral cortex) to outmaneuver the automatic shortcuts and cognitive biases of the "fast brain" (amygdala).
• The Architecture of Decision-Making: Master the Ladder of Inference and Syllogistic Reasoning to build logically airtight, defensible decisions that can confidently withstand the "Yes, Your Honor" test.
• The Logic of Transcendence: Reject the false choice between productivity and safety. Learn how to relentlessly pursue Safe Production by discovering operational innovations that make your processes both faster and safer.
• The Cobra Effect and Systemic Drift: Uncover how well intentioned safety incentives inadvertently motivate people to hide hazards rather than eliminate them, and how to stop standard erosion before it triggers a crisis.
• The Safety Triad Framework: Implement an actionable, three-part universal definition of safety first introduced by Terry Mathis and Shawn Galloway in their book, Steps to Safety Culture Excellence, that your entire workforce can easily grasp and execute: Identify the Hazards, Control the Hazards, and Do These Things Always.

Why This Book is Different