Category Archives: risk management

Inherited Risk Ecosystem: How Upstream Decisions Shape Human Error at the Point of Work

Posted on July 24, 2026 by Chet Brandon

Serious injuries and fatalities are often shaped long before a worker reaches the point of exposure. The Inherited Risk Ecosystem provides a practical way to identify how upstream decisions, organizational conditions, and interacting risk factors combine to influence the real risk of work—and where leaders can intervene before an event occurs. Continue reading →

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SIF Reduction: The Leading Edge of Operational Integrity

Posted on June 9, 2026 by Chet Brandon

SIF prevention belongs within the broader discipline of Operational Integrity. Preventing life-altering events requires more than a safety program; it requires an operating system that connects leadership, frontline knowledge, reliable controls, meaningful data, and organizational learning. Continue reading →

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Technology Designers Must Begin the Journey to Safety

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Chet Brandon

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 →

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