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Tag Archives: ehs-leadership
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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If Everything Still Comes to You, You Haven’t Scaled Leadership
As leadership responsibility grows, working harder and staying involved in everything stops working. Drawing on experience scaling an organization from 15 to 300 people, this article explores how EHS leaders can multiply their impact through people, management systems, governance, delegation, digital tools, and AI—and build an organization capable of making thousands of good decisions every day. Continue reading
Posted in Business Accumen, EHS Management, enterprise risk management, Leadership, Leading at Scale, operational integrity
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, EHS leadership, ehs-leadership, Enterprise Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Scale, operational excellence, safety leadership, safety-leadership, technology
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Beyond the Factory Fence: Why Scope 3 Defines the Next Generation of Sustainable Operations
Most organizations focus on reducing emissions within their own operations, but meaningful decarbonization requires looking beyond the factory fence. This article explains the differences between Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions, explores why Scope 3 is the most challenging—and most important—part of an organization’s carbon footprint, and outlines practical strategies for managing value-chain emissions through operational integrity, supplier collaboration, AI, and executive leadership. Continue reading
Posted in #ESG, ESG Investing, Sustainability Leadership, Sustainable Strategy
Tagged ai-for-sustainability, carbon footprint, carbon management, carbon-accounting, carbon-intelligence, circular-economy, climate-change, climate-risk-management, climate-strategy, corporate-sustainability, decarbonization strategy, digital-product-passport, ehs-leadership, emissions-reduction, energy, enterprise risk management, enterprise-sustainability, environment, environmental-leadership, esg-strategy, ghg-protocol, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, greenhouse-gas-accounting, greenhouse-gas-emissions, industrial-decarbonization, industrial-sustainability, lifecycle-emissions, manufacturing-sustainability, net-zero-strategy, operational excellence, operational integrity, operational-sustainability, product-carbon-footprint, product-stewardship, resilient-supply-chains, sbti, science-based-targets-initiative, Scope 3 emissions, scope-1-scope-2-scope-3, scope-3-greenhouse-gas-emissions, supplier-sustainability, supply chain sustainability, supply-chain-emissions, sustainability, Sustainability Leadership, sustainable operations, sustainable-business-strategy, sustainable-manufacturing, sustainable-supply-chain, technology, value chain emissions, value-chain-decarbonization
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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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Decision-Ready Information: The Modern Standard for Leadership in Complex Organizations
Organizations are drowning in information and starving for judgment.
My latest article on LeadingEHS.com explores the concept of decision-ready information and compares it to the classic management discipline of completed staff work.
The core idea is simple: leaders do not need more dashboards, alerts, reports, or raw data. They need information that has been interpreted, contextualized, risk-ranked, and shaped into clear options and recommendations.
This discipline matters across EHS, sustainability, operations, cybersecurity, process safety, and enterprise governance. Whether we are dealing with AIoT signals, process safety data, ESG disclosures, or operational risk indicators, the challenge is the same:
-What is happening
-Why does it matter
-What could happen next
-What should we do?
Decision-ready information converts complexity into accountable leadership action. Continue reading
Building Sustainable Leadership: Why It Matters More Than Ever
What if leadership itself were treated as a renewable resource rather than a consumable one? First introduced at the ASSP Management Systems Symposium, the sustainable leadership framework was designed to help organizations perform today without eroding the people, trust, and systems they depend on tomorrow. In an era shaped by AI, complexity, and constant disruption, its seven tenets offer a practical blueprint for building leadership that endures. Continue reading
Human + AI: The Power of Synergistic Collaboration
Are humans being replaced by AI in the workplace? In EHS and sustainability, the answer is no—what’s emerging is far more powerful: synergistic collaboration between people and AI. In my latest article, I explore how human insight, cognitive resilience, and ethical judgment combined with AI’s predictive and analytical power are transforming leadership, decision-making, and workforce development. Discover how leaders can harness shared intelligence to drive safer, smarter, and more sustainable outcomes. Continue reading
Posted in AI, Artificial Intelligence, EHS Management, Uncategorized
Tagged AI, AI and sustainability, AI in workplace safety, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive resilience, EHS leadership, ehs-leadership, emerging safety professionals, Human-AI collaboration, human-AI feedback loop, occupational safety AI, shared intelligence, synergistic collaboration
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Harnessing AI to Revolutionize EHS Management: A Vision for the Future
“The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into business processes has created a paradigm shift in how organizations approach decision-making, efficiency, and now, employee safety. In the realm of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) performance, AI’s potential is especially transformative, due … Continue reading
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, EHS Management, Ethics, Machine Learning
Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, business, EHS, ehs-leadership, news, technology, workforce-of-the-future
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