Learn about resilience management and leadership; driving safety and quality with project management; human performance tools; leading indicators and KPIs; social media platforms to create safe performance and safe cultures; organizational culture and performance; and investigation methodologies at the Resilience Management Summit, to be held May 14 and 15 at Oviedo Amphitheatre and Cultural Center, Orlando, FL.

Principals of ProAct Safety and best-selling authors Shawn M. Galloway and Terry L. Mathis announce their newly-released audiobook, Lean Behavior-Based Safety: BBS for Today's Realities. Lean Behavior-Based Safety is an updated model to traditional BBS, introduced in 2001 with a focus on providing new value with more efficient, safer work.

The latter half of 2017 saw The New York Times break the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the movie titan’s subsequent fall. Since then, victims have brought forth a seemingly endless barrage of allegations against numerous high-profile, and very powerful, men and women within Hollywood, politics, the media, and other industries. This movement has helped to purge organizations of longstanding sexual predators and has also ignited a fervent interest in changing the workplace cultures that have allowed such abuse to go on for so long.

Bullying – specifically racial bullying – appears to be behind a workplace violence incident yesterday in suburban Detroit that left one person dead, another critically injured and a third facing life in prison. Police are saying that the double shooting at Reliable Fence Company in Clinton Township, Michigan stemmed from an ongoing dispute between employees.

A Maine lumber mill has seen lower injury rates, lower turnover better employee morale and an improved safety culture since partnering with government agencies to help make inherently high-hazard work tasks safer.

Big data, adaptability and the future of workplace safety were all explored in articles posted on ISHN.com this year. Here are the top safety culture-related stories of 2017.

Most truths about communication are timeless. With all the cultural and political tension we observe today it might seem this was written as a response to that tension. However, in fact, it is one more look into how to be the most effective safety motivational speaker possible. So how important is it to be politically correct?

The tendency for that highly-scrutinized generation which now outnumbers Baby Boomers to change jobs at a faster pace than their predecessors generates significant attention in news articles and research studies, but this well-documented inclination among Millennials reveals only the proverbial tip of the iceberg beneath the waterline of this disruptive and expensive trend.

Focusing on the ‘me,’ becoming self-reliant and assigning less importance to what others think or do is certainly a healthy philosophy; it’s been related to a happier life in that people feel empowered to put their own interests first.