My goal is to challenge thinking (which you have proven I've done) not provide universal strategies, as that doesn’t exist, everyone's different. You must not be familiar with all of my articles/podcasts as they alone have contributed to significant improvement, proven by the readers/listeners themselves. Yes there's a method and have proven it in significant reduction in recordables, increase in leading indicators and overall improvement in multiple areas of performance and culture, not just safety. The audience I’m speaking to is those who want to learn how to do things different. Respectfully sir, do you have nothing better to do than criticize? If you have differing ideas on what it takes to achieve and sustain excellence in these areas, share them here, publish articles, write books, publish videos, publish podcasts; or you can criticize those who do. I'll choose to keep writing and challenging thinking and will no longer waste my time with this negative nonsense. Good day to you.

Oh hi Shawn, thanks for your reponse.

Obviously (or perhaps not enough so) I have never had anything thrown at my head by a member of the group I work with. I was employing hyperbole to suggest that the issues you raise would not be well received by the vast majority of those individuals who are most at risk of incident and injury. But then again, I am sure you already know that. Nice attempt at a person attack by the way, but I haven't actually considered whether I am disliked in my workplace or not, did I strike a nerve?

Anyway, the problem I have with your approach and why, in fact, I feel it is a disservice to Safety Professionals is that you are selling (even if not literally so) jargon, buzzwords, and empty concepts. How do you know your strategies work? Is there a method to quantify marked increases in "performance excellence, safety culture, and operational alignment?"

Look, we cannot discount the message Shawn has sent here! That rethoric is indeed very much applicable if we are to influence the change in safety behaviour. Don't get me wrong as I do believe that top-down commitment is a precondition for any successful safety program and for that matter lateral commitment too ia also required!

I share the experience and everyday frustration of my expectations not being matched by reality, and that equation as we know = STRESS. That notwithstanding , how are we doing ourselves as safety officers? Do we have the intestinal and testicular fortitude to STOP and engage employees in any discussion for that matter regardless of what tool is thrown at us? After all that may be the risk we all have to take to set the stage........

Safety officers have the opportunity to lead by example and I say sieze it now! Let's not throw our arms in the air in desperation, but engage our passion to lead all...................seize it my friends!!