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AI Won’t Need to Become Evil to Become Dangerous: What the AI Doomsday Debate Means for EHS

Posted on September 19, 2026 by Chet Brandon

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 →

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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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EHS Data Analysis Heuristics: Turning Performance Data Into Better Decisions

Posted on June 7, 2026 by Chet Brandon

By Chet Brandon EHS data is only useful when it helps leaders make better decisions and take timely action. Incident reports, corrective action records, hazard observations, audit findings, injury data, exposure information, and corrective action trends all contain signals. The … Continue reading →

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