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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.

About Alan Quilley

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 If you haven't yet seen the … [Read more...] about Heinrich–Industrial Accident Prevention

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 truth is that very safely … [Read more...] about The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

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! It’s been 10 years since my first book “The Emperor Has No Hard Hat – Achieving REAL Workplace Safety Results” … [Read more...] about The Emperor Has No Hard Hat

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 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) Make safety look more like … [Read more...] about An Open Letter to the CEOs and Their Management Teams About Safety Excellence

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/ There seems to be a theme lately in the Safety World – Humans intellectually looking for impossibly high reliability where there is none. Seeking … [Read more...] about Avoid Seeking the Impossible

Filed Under: Alan Quilley Tagged With: impossible task, risk assessement

10 New Safety Axioms For The 21st Century

December 21, 2015 by Alan Quilley 6 Comments

Time to Lose the Illogical Chants and Support New Evidence-Based Safety Axioms Excellent article by Alan Quilley recently posted HERE We’re quickly approaching 2016, almost 90 years after Heinrich created some axioms about safety that have mostly proven themselves to be false or needing some … [Read more...] about 10 New Safety Axioms For The 21st Century

Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Safety Differently Tagged With: axioms, common sense, heinrich

What E Deming and Larry the Cable Guy Have In Common – Git-R-Done Safely

December 2, 2015 by Alan Quilley Leave a Comment

Safety Management Series - What E Deming and Larry the Cable Guy Have In Common - Git-R-Done Safely By Alan Quilley Unless you've been living on a beautiful sandy beach somewhere on the edge the Pacific Ocean where none of what goes on in the world of business really matters, most of us will have … [Read more...] about What E Deming and Larry the Cable Guy Have In Common – Git-R-Done Safely

Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Safety Leadership Tagged With: deming, Safety Management

Saying What Is REALLY Important Matters

November 25, 2015 by Alan Quilley 3 Comments

Part 1 - What Does Counting Injuries as a Measure of Our Safety Process do to Our Risk Communication? By Alan Quilley and first published HERE There’s a long tradition in thinking (by some) that measuring safety is best done by measuring the lack of injury. If you’ve read ANY of my books, … [Read more...] about Saying What Is REALLY Important Matters

Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Safety Statistics Tagged With: measurement

The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

March 19, 2014 by Alan Quilley 4 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 truth is that very safely … [Read more...] about The Problem With ZERO Goals and Results

Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Zero Harm Tagged With: injury data, Safety Statistics, zero goals, zero injuries

Don’t Jump To Safety Management Solution

August 1, 2013 by Alan Quilley 5 Comments

Latest article by Guest Author, renowned Safety Writer, Alan D. Quilley CRSP.  Alan is the author of “The Emperor Has No Hard Hat – Achieving REAL Safety Results”  and “Creating & Maintaining a Practical Based Safety Culture”. Read all of his articles HERE He’s the president of Safety Results … [Read more...] about Don’t Jump To Safety Management Solution

Filed Under: Alan Quilley, Safety Leadership, Safety Management Plan Tagged With: conflict, Safety, safety culture, Safety Management, safety slogan, total loss control

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