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New safety-inspiration-session

A new session available in Dutch.

Focus on what really matters

The people who are familiar with safety management are also familiar with Heinrich's Pyramid. We thus learn that the ratio between the...

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...

How do we learn to work more safely?

Many companies pay a lot of attention to training to work safely. The problem with many training methods, however, is that the lessons do...

Safety First! Zero Accidents! Are you serious?

Few companies would survive if 'Safety first' and 'Zero accidents' were their motto and goal. Why? No organization's mission is to be...

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...

Interview with ARBO-Online: "Give safety back to the workplace"

"Safety" does not belong to safety experts, but belongs in the workplace. That is Rob Kreté's firm belief. During his career as a project...

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...

An easily preventable health problem, or not?

How something as simple as washing hands time and time again reduces proven risks but still isn't always enforced. In 1846, Ignaz...

Safety: Learning from normal activities

When talking to information about incidents and near misses, we must learn from normal operations so that we can remove risky situations...

Safety: "We have been doing this for thirty years"

When safety professionals make critical comments or question a situation or activity they consider unsafe, they often get the following...

"Be careful"

Does saying 'Be careful' to someone help them become more aware of dangers? "Really?" I've been in the industry for years and have heard...