Deep dive: Toxic culture of a submersible company and their CEO's hubris. Implosion on a dive to the wreck of the Titanic. Five fatalities. The post OceanGate Titan: Toxic Culture & Fatal Hubris appeared first on Aerossurance.| Aerossurance
Nyansa 2023 CHAS award michigan-techDownload Miller 2023-08 Fall CHAS awardDownload Bolton PubChem awardsDownload Stuart Mining the Chemical Literature 2023Download Belford Stuart SF CINF PosterDownload| ACS Chemical Health and Safety Division
Failure to learn? In 2010 an Aircraft Commander was left 'hanging' after seat components omitted during maintenance. It reoccurred just 3.5 years later.| Aerossurance
Teaching, Creating and Sustaining a Safety Culture| ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
Teaching, Creating and Sustaining a Safety Culture| ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
Originally posted on September 20, 2014 @ 8:41 AM Stress is a part of living, the pressure of being a fallible being in a complex world is stressful, but is stress bad? In what ways are humans stressed and how does this affect the discerning of risk and safety? There are four kinds of stress […]| SafetyRisk.net
The Aircraft Commander / Instructor died after a water impact during the first flight of a command course following a loss of control on approach to a NUI.| Aerossurance
Originally posted on May 30, 2014 @ 2:04 PM Sammie’s Lament – A Powerless Purpose I spoke with Sammie the other day to get a sense of how things were going. I heard the all too familiar lament of, ‘no-one’s listened before why should I tell you my story now’? Sammie felt so despondent because […]| SafetyRisk.net
The word ‘culture’ has an agri-cultural origin and extends back thousands of years. We all accept the language and notion of agriculture as it denotes growing and living on the land. Before written text there are extensive semiotic and oral representations for the ethos of activity in and on the land. The Romans used the […]| SafetyRisk.net
Safety is a mono-disciplinary endeavour, anchored to the philosophies of Rationalism, Positivism and Behaviourism. If you seek out knowledge from this industry, that’s the methodology that generates all that follows. The method that follows has been the same in safety since 1931. These dominant philosophies result in the weird outcome of engineers and behaviourists sprouting […]| SafetyRisk.net
One of the most important things to know about culture is that it is beyond definition, proposition and mechanistic thinking. One can’t control, define or ‘engineer’ culture as if it is a ‘thing’. Indeed, this is one of the characteristics of discourse in safety about culture, usually coming from sources with no expertise in culture. […]| SafetyRisk.net
Poor mental health and stress can negatively affect employee’s job performance and productivity, engagement with their work, communication with co-workers and physical capability to perform daily functions. The post Improving Mental Health in the Workplace appeared first on Amerisafe.| Amerisafe
Is Workplace Safety Culture the Same as Organizational Culture? We’ve recently been asked the question: “Is safety culture the same as organizational culture?” In a moment where “culture” is a topic of conversation in any workplace context, it’s important to clarify these two concepts. Let’s start with some definitions… Organizational Culture: According to an article from Harvard Business […]| Amerisafe