Why Leaders Are Now Getting The Message About Safety

Dr Andrew Sharman

By Dr Andrew Sharman, Chair of the Board of One Percent Safer and Chief Executive Officer, International Institute of Leadership & Safety Culture (IILSC) I am seeing more evidence this year that leaders are recognising an undeniable truth about business: that how you care for your people is the difference between success and failure. In […]

Safety must make leaders of us all

Paul Davison

By Paul Davison, CEO and Founder, PPWD, and One Percent Safer Ambassador Workplace safety is a wicked problem. It is elusive, it never goes away and it is never solved. For anyone familiar with the work of Professor Keith Grint, this is a perspective that will be known to you. Grint developed the idea of […]

Making a difference in Ethiopia

HOPEthiopia

The trustees of the One Percent Safer Foundation, the charity set up to distribute the profits from the One Percent Safer book and other income from donations, have had some proud moments in the past couple of years. We have been able to say “Yes” to requests to help greenlight some projects that make small […]

Partnering for Global Safety: Cority’s Support for One Percent Safer

Team of specialist doctors in a hospital

As part of the continued commitment towards global safety, Cority, a leading global provider of environment, health, and safety (EHS) software, has joined hands with One Percent Safer. In recognition of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, Cority has become a gold sponsor of One Percent Safer’s five-day virtual event, One Percent […]

ONE PERCENT SAFER: Live & Direct ’23

  In safety, the usual drivers of organisational success apply: leadership, culture, strategy, employee engagement and learning and development. But we’re missing something. Conflict. Positive conflict. Safety professionals at odds can exchange their different views constructively. Each acknowledges the difference in the other standpoint, and has the empathy to understand it. This conflict is collaborative […]

Kahneman on small gains

Daniel Kahneman is a towering figure in behavioural science and author of my favourite psychology text. I make sure to reread the Nobel laureate economist’s Thinking Fast and Slow every few years. It’s a 420-page layman’s tour through Kahneman’s 50 years of research, much of it carried out with his colleague Amos Tversky, and I […]