How to Build a Safety Coaching Routine for New Supervisors in 18 Days
New supervisors often receive safety coaching duties before they have a reliable way to observe work, test understanding, and close the loop. This practical 18-day routine turns coaching into a repeatable field discipline without reducing it to a lecture or a score.
How Alcoa's CEO Turned Safety Into an Operating System
Paul O'Neill's Alcoa case is remembered for a bold opening statement, but the durable transformation came from changing how safety information moved, who acted on it, and what leaders reviewed every day.
Culture Survey vs Leader Interviews vs Worksite Proof: 3 Diagnostic Lenses for a Plant Leader
A culture survey, a structured leader interview, and worksite proof answer different questions about safety culture. This comparison gives plant leaders a practical decision matrix for choosing evidence, cadence, ownership, and follow-through without confusing declared culture with the conditions people actually face.
Exposure-Based Safety Metrics: 5 Decisions That Keep Serious Risk Visible
A dashboard can look disciplined while hiding the exposures that create life-changing harm. This F1 diagnostic shows five decisions leaders must make before safety metrics become executive theater.
New EHS Director in 90 Days: What to Fix Before Changing the Strategy
A practical 90-day transition plan for a newly appointed EHS director who needs to see real exposure, clarify decision rights, and build trust before launching another safety campaign.
Compassion Fatigue Explained: 3 Distinctions Managers Need to Make
Compassion fatigue is not burnout. This glossary separates three related experiences so managers can choose a safer response without turning care into surveillance.
How to Build a Stop-Work Escalation Routine for Supervisors in 30 Days
A practical 30-day guide for supervisors who need a clear stop-work, escalation, response, and restart routine for high-risk work.
Safety Culture: 4 Contradictions That Make Field Exceptions Look Like Flexibility
A safety culture becomes unreliable when leaders call recurring field exceptions flexibility. These four contradictions show how declared values, production pressure, local workarounds, and leadership response can separate the culture people hear from the culture they experience.
Job Safety Analysis Explained: 4 Layers That Keep Field Decisions Honest
A job safety analysis is more than a list of hazards. These four layers show how to connect the task, exposure, controls, and verification before work begins.
How a Global EHS Portfolio Turned Mental-Health Concerns Into Safer Work Decisions
Across more than 250 companies and 30+ countries, Andreza Araujo has seen that mental-health support becomes a safety control only when leaders connect early human signals to work conditions, accountable decisions, and proof that exposure changed.
Stories that help you read the signals.
Talks, consulting and masterclasses from someone who led EHS in Fortune 500 operations.