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Do you want to engage your culture? Safety is the first step to creating the motivation needed for people to perform their best. Each day, we have the chance to lead our teams and learn more about our people through an understanding of our safety climate. Through looking at current issues in HSE, we chat about creating cultural value through safety. Your host is Dr. Mark French, CSP, SPHR aka The Safety Dude.
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In this episode of Leading and Learning Through Safety, Dr. Mark French continues the Back to Basics series by exploring how adult learning theories can help leaders introduce meaningful change while maintaining a sense of safety, security, and predictability in the workplace. Safety is more than freedom from illness and danger. It also involves creating an environment where people feel secure, familiar, and confident about what comes next. When organizations introduce change, particularly to...
Change is essential for organizational growth, but why do employees often resist it, even when the change is designed to protect them? In this episode of Leading and Learning Through Safety, Dr. Mark French continues his exploration of the fundamental definition of safety and its relationship to human motivation, organizational change, and leadership. Safety represents our desire for freedom from illness and danger while maintaining a secure, familiar, and predictable environment. However, th...
In this episode of Leading and Learning Through Safety, Dr. Mark French goes back to the fundamentals of safety, motivation, and leadership to explore a deceptively simple question: What does it really mean for people to feel safe? Using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a starting point, Mark examines safety as more than freedom from physical injury or danger. Safety also includes the desire for an environment that feels secure, familiar, and predictable. That broader definition creates an impo...
In this episode of Leading and Learning Through Safety, Dr. Mark French challenges a common approach to measuring safety performance: relying on OSHA recordable injuries and other lagging indicators as primary measures of success. Using the simple example of water on the floor, Mark explains how the same hazard can produce dramatically different outcomes. One person may walk through the water without incident, another may nearly fall, another may suffer a minor injury, and another could exper...
In this episode of Leading and Learning Through Safety, Dr. Mark French explores how the tasks leaders assign can influence employee engagement, leadership credibility, and the effectiveness of workplace safety programs. Drawing from research published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, the episode examines the concept of “illegitimate tasks”—work employees perceive as either unnecessary or unreasonable. Unnecessary tasks are activities that seemingly should not need to be perf...
In this episode of Leading and Learning Through Safety, Dr. Mark French explores how statistics and risk prioritization can help safety professionals focus limited resources on the hazards that matter most. Using an example from his career in a chemical plant, Mark describes an unusual incident in which wind carried a small particle of dust around an employee’s safety glasses, ultimately resulting in prescription eye drops and an OSHA-recordable injury. While the incident deserved attention a...
Safety systems are more than tools for preventing injuries—they can become the foundation for how an organization operates and improves. In this episode of Leading and Learning Through Safety, Dr. Mark French explores how organizations can build effective systems from the ground up, particularly during startups and turnarounds. The process begins with reliable data. Organizations need to understand what information they need, where it comes from, and whether it accurately reflects what is hap...
Going to where the work actually happens sounds simple. So why can it be so difficult? In this episode of Leading and Learning Through Safety, Dr. Mark French explores Gemba, the Lean management practice of going to the “actual place” to observe work, interact with employees, and understand what is really happening. Building on previous discussions about learning design and the Analysis phase of ADDIE, Mark explains that observation is one of the most powerful ways leaders can identify gaps b...
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Do you want to engage your culture? Safety is the first step to creating the motivation needed for people to perform their best. Each day, we have the chance to lead our teams and learn more about our people through an understanding of our safety climate. Through looking at current issues in HSE, we chat about creating cultural value through safety. Your host is Dr. Mark French, CSP, SPHR aka The Safety Dude.
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