by Rob Fisher | May 15, 2019 | Safety
In my travels and interactions with leaders, I often come across people who use mentors or coaches to attempt to better their own performance. Many times, the role of the mentor or coach dissolves into one person being the teacher and one being the...
by Rob Fisher | Apr 23, 2019 | Safety
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by Rob Fisher | Apr 16, 2019 | Safety
I’ll bet that got your attention! What I mean is, as one of the first steps to understanding how bad things happen, you may want to change your language. I have posted before on the importance of definitions in improving performance, and use of the term...
by Rob Fisher | Mar 26, 2019 | Safety
I was recently exposed to a new way of thinking about how we see and manage risk. Well really…risk is harder to manage if you can’t or don’t SEE it! So do we really see what is there? The concept I was recently exposed to is called Visual Literacy....
by Rob Fisher | Mar 19, 2019 | Safety
When problems or adverse consequences occur, organizations tend to immediately start ‘investigating’ so that they can create actions to fix the problem and prevent future occurrences. There is a simple method or approach to problem-solving and incident analysis that...
by Rob Fisher | Mar 12, 2019 | Safety
As many of you know my background is both military and nuclear. And even though it has been a LONG time, I remember well that for most things we did we had to either discuss or document our ‘lessons learned’…“Did you file the lessons learned? Did you look at the...
by Rob Fisher | Mar 5, 2019 | Safety
Written by Mr. Randy Mayes As I interact with workers, supervisors, and managers, I am often asked, “Do I really need written guidance for every task?” The simple answer is no. The more correct answer is, it depends! There is a lot to unpack with the “it depends” part...
