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Appreciation for prevention, for the deployment of safety

We consider it to be normal when work is carried out safely, but when accidents occur, something has failed somewhere in the system. An...

Is 'planning' the road to success?

'What's the #planning?' seems to be the holy trail for 'the manager'. Without a planning he's lost. The employee wouldn't know where he's...

Why not looking more often at HRO’s when we’re talking about Safety?

What can we learn from High Reliability Organizations (#HRO) where one has to keep errors to the absolute minimum? In addition to working...

From Inside

It is interesting to investigate the core message of my book "Safety from Inside". This is brilliantly unravelled by Daniel Pink in his...

There's no glory in prevention - but the real leader goes for prevention anyway

Mensen die een crisis bezweren worden op een voetstuk gehesen, maar mensen die crisissen voorkomen genieten maar al te vaak weinig erkenning

Damage caused by not (being able to) to speak freely

Psychological safety In the book “Safety from Within” I wrote about the enormously significant impact of psychological safety. From the...

Mindfulness & Safety

I am very passionate about mindfulness simply because I am more present at what is happening right now. While pretty obvious, I've never...

Safety from Within

Many people do not know that severe and fatal accidents in the Netherlands are rising again since 2015. Before that, that number had been...