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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Work Is Temporary Not the Workers
By Phil La Duke I spent the month of October at two different conferences, the National Safety Council in Atlanta and EHS Today’s Leadership Conference and of the several themes to emerge one could...
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