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Alan Quilley

Alan D. Quilley is the author of “The Emperor Has No Hard Hat – Achieving REAL Safety Results” and “Creating & Maintaining a Practical Based Safety Culture”.

He’s the president of Safety Results Ltd., a Sherwood Park, Alberta, OHS consulting company. You can reach him at aquilley@ safetyresults.ca or through his Safety Blog – http://safetyresults.wordpress.com.

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Heinrich–Industrial Accident Prevention

June 13, 2017 by Alan Quilley 2 Comments

Heinrich – Industrial Accident Prevention

I am embarrassed to admit that it was only a few years ago that I stopped extolling the virtues of Heinrich and his Pyramid – hey it was a simple concept, sort of made sense and the punters loved it! Please forgive me – Dave… Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Safety Professional, Simplistic Safety Tagged With: accident prevention, heinrich, Industrial accident

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

June 4, 2016 by Alan Quilley 28 Comments

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

By Alan Quilley

I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking and writing about the variety of associated problems with using injury data to support the belief that low injury/damage results equate to a corporation being safe. The … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Zero Harm Tagged With: zero goals, Zero Harm

The Emperor Has No Hard Hat

February 3, 2016 by Alan Quilley Leave a Comment

The Emperor Has No Hard Hat – Still As Valid Today

by Alan Quilley, first published here: safetyresultsblog

10 Year Anniversary Sale!

He’s not only 10 years older…he’s ten years wiser!

imageIt’s been 10 years since my first book “The Emperor Has No Hard Hat – Achieving REAL Workplace Safety … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Safety Books Tagged With: safety books

An Open Letter to the CEOs and Their Management Teams About Safety Excellence

January 9, 2016 by Alan Quilley 26 Comments

An Open Letter to the CEOs and Their Management Teams About Safety Excellence

First Published here on LinkedIn Pulse

open letter

Here are the Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions You Can Actually DO! Make 2016 the year your company achieves Safety Excellence…here’s how you do it:

1) … Learn more >>>>>

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Filed Under: Safety Leadership Tagged With: safety excellence

Avoid Seeking the Impossible

December 26, 2015 by Alan Quilley 4 Comments

Avoid Seeking the Impossible

by Alan Quilley. First published here: https://safetyresults.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/avoid-seeking-the-impossible/

3-santa-believeThere seems to be a theme lately in the Safety World – Humans intellectually looking for impossibly high reliability where there is none. Seeking perfection where none exists. Seeking Anti-fragile (I really don’t like that artificially created non-word) in … Learn more >>>>>

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