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Category Archives: Innovation
Earning Executive Influence: Six Lenses for EHS Innovation and Payback
What if your EHS team had to earn the business before it could earn the influence? EHS leaders frequently talk about wanting greater influence with executive management. We want to be involved earlier in business decisions, have operating leaders seek … Continue reading
Posted in Business Accumen, Career Skills, EHS Management, enterprise risk management, Innovation, Leadership, Leading at Scale, Sustainable Strategy
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, business, business-value-of-ehs, EHS Management, ehs-innovation, ehs-leadership, ehs-management, ehs-strategy, executive-influence, news, Operational Risk Management, safety management systems, safety-leadership, technology
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AI Won’t Need to Become Evil to Become Dangerous: What the AI Doomsday Debate Means for EHS
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from a tool that provides information to systems that can make decisions, take action, and interact with other agents. For EHS professionals, that shift should raise a familiar question: are capability and autonomy expanding faster than the controls designed to manage them? This article examines the AI “doomsday” debate through an EHS lens, connecting emerging AI risks to Management of Change, SIF prevention, human factors, inherited risk, and defense in depth. Continue reading
Posted in AI, Artificial Intelligence, Design for Safety, Digital Twin, Innovation, Technical Skills
Tagged AI, AI Governance, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Safety, EHS Risk Management, ehs-leadership, ehs-risk-management, Management of Change, philosophy, risk management, Serious Injury and Fatality Prevention, technology
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Harnessing the Process Digital Twin: Building Live Operating Models for Foresight, Control, and Safer Work
Most organizations are still managing safety and operational risk by looking in the rearview mirror. A Process Digital Twin gives leaders a way to see risk forming early enough to act.
In our new article, “Harnessing the Process Digital Twin: Building Live Operating Models for Foresight, Control, and Safer Work,” Emmanuel Winful, CSP, MPH, MS and I explore how digital twins can move from concept to practical operational control.
Emmanuel was a great collaborator on this work and brought strong technical depth to the discussion.
The article covers where to start, what data matters, how to avoid false confidence, and why validation, MOC, cybersecurity, and governance cannot be afterthoughts.
The future of safety will not be built on better dashboards alone. Continue reading
Posted in AI, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twin, Innovation, Machine Learning, Uncategorized
Tagged Digital Twin for Hazard Identification, Digital Twin Technology, Digital Twins in EHS, EHS Management Systems, Industrial Safety Technology, Lockout Tagout Digital Twin, LOTO Training Simulation, Operational Risk Management, Predictive Safety Management, Process Digital Twin
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The Game Changer in EHS Training: Blended Pathways That Build Capability in High-Risk Industrial Operations
EHS training, safety training, lockout tagout, LOTO training, hazardous energy control, industrial safety, blended learning, competency based training, safety leadership, verified capability Continue reading
Posted in AI, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twin, EHS Management, Innovation, Leading at Scale, Modernized Trianin, psychological-safety
Tagged blended learning, Blended Method Training, competency based training, EHS training, hazardous energy control, industrial safety, lockout tagout, LOTO training, safety leadership, safety training, verified capability
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Contractor Safety Management: The Contractor Operational Integrity Model
I’m pleased to share my latest article: “The Future of Contractor Safety Management: The Contractor Operational Integrity Model.”
The impetus for this piece came from my participation on a contractor safety panel at the Avetta annual conference in Chicago in mid-May. The discussion reinforced something I believe strongly: contractor safety management is moving into a new era.
For too long, contractor safety has often been treated as a compliance and prequalification process. Those elements still matter, but they are not enough. The future is about work readiness, verified control of work, and operational integrity at the point where risk is real.
In the article, I introduce the Contractor Operational Integrity Model, built around six core elements:
Critical Risk Definition
Capability and Capacity Verification
Control of Work Discipline
Field Verification and Leadership Cadence
Performance Intelligence
Corrective Learning and System Improvement
The central message is straightforward:
Compliance is the foundation. Operational integrity is the standard.
Contractor safety is not just a safety department issue. It is a test of how well safety, operations, procurement, maintenance, and contractors operate as one system under real field conditions.
I appreciate the Avetta team for hosting a strong discussion and creating space for practical dialogue on where contractor risk management needs to go next. Continue reading
Posted in AI, Artificial Intelligence, contractor safety, enterprise risk management, Innovation
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, business, contractor operational integrity, contractor risk management, contractor safety, contractor safety management, control of work, EHS leadership, ehs-leadership, field verification, heavy industry safety, news, safety management systems, technology, work readiness
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You’ve Been Given the Assignment: Why Modern EHS Leadership Requires a New Operating Model
If your EHS system struggles when conditions change, that’s not a people problem—it’s a system design issue. This article outlines how leading organizations are modernizing EHS for real work and real risk. Continue reading
Posted in AI, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, New View of Safety, Uncategorized
Tagged digital EHS systems, EHS transformation, high reliability organizations HRO, human organizational performance HOP, modern EHS management systems, predictive safety analytics, proactive safety management, resilience engineering safety, safety culture improvement
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Technology Designers Must Begin the Journey to Safety
Uber self driving car accidents and the facebook data scraping scandal are the most recent indications of a significant risk in the technology industry: the lack of mature safety processes. The icons of the “hot industry” of the 21 century … Continue reading
Posted in Design for Safety, Ethics, Innovation, Responsible Use of Technology, risk management
Tagged AI, risk management, Strategy, technology, Technology Safety
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High Flight Requires Risk
The passing of two of the great aviation masters in the last few weeks started me thinking about what forges great people like them. The Aerospace Icons I am discussing here are Bob Hoover and John Glenn. Both made incredible … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Leadership
Tagged aerospace, aviators, flight, innovator, Risk, risk management
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1000 Tweets Later…
This blog post will generate my 1001st tweet. It seems to me that 1000 tweets is a milestone. I’ll celebrate it here. I estimate that each tweet averages about 45 seconds to write. When you do the math, it turns out … Continue reading
