Tag: safety-walkaround

Assessing the Quality of Safety-Focused Leadership Engagements

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This paper developed a leadership engagement assessment scorecard, aiming to gauge the quality of the interaction. Providing background: ·       Safety performance has “long been measured using lagging indicators such as total recordable incident rate (TRIR) that involve counting the number of injuries” ·       However, “recent research has shown that these metrics suffer from severe limitations… Continue reading Assessing the Quality of Safety-Focused Leadership Engagements

Management walk-arounds: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout

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This 2011 paper from Andrew Hopkins discusses the function of management walkarounds, and their role in the genesis of major accidents, using the Macondo blowout accident. *** Note: This type of description is replete with counterfactuals and the clarity of hindsight, so keep that in mind. Overall, Hopkins argues that despite the best intentions of… Continue reading Management walk-arounds: Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout