One of the most influential, most innovative, and most controversial thinkers in occupational safety and health these days is Dr. Todd Conklin, who’s famous for his human and organizational performance (HOP) approach to safety matters.

It’s likely you’re familiar with Dr. Conklin and don’t need me to explain to you who he is. However, if the name IS new to you, you might want to check out his Pre-Accident Investigation podcast series, or his HOP Hub website, or his books on pre-accident investigations, learning more by asking better questions, preventing workplace fatalities, or the 5 principles of human performance, which is what our discussion below will focus on.

Todd was nice enough to stop by for a chat with us and explain the 5 principles of HOP and some other HOPpy stuff, and we can’t thank him enough. We’ve included an audio recording of the discussion below and hope you enjoy it.

(Note: If you’re the type who’d rather read than listen to an audio, the transcript is below).

Also, feel free to check out some of the articles we’ve written about Dr. Conklin’s books, below:

• 9 Things to Know about HOP 
• Using Learning Teams after Workplace Incidents 
• Preventing Workplace Fatalities 

We haven’t yet written a quick intro to Todd’s most recent book (5 Principles of HOP) but stay tuned for that–plus, of course, this interview basically fills that need and you can’t do better than to get the goods from Todd himself.

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In this installment of our Risk Management Basics series, we’re going to learn about risk treatment.

If you’ve been reading our Risk Management Basics series, you know we addressed the Three Stages of Risk Assessment in a recent article. Risk Treatment is often the next step in the risk management process after risk assessment.

We’ll be writing more in this Risk Management Basics series, so if you’re liking it stay tuned. Plus, feel free to use the comments section at the bottom to ask risk-related questions or to suggest risk-related article topics for the series.

And finally, even though an organization can and should use risk management for all of its objectives, we want you to know we’ve got a free downloadable guide to using Risk Management for Occupational Safety and Health Management at the bottom of this article for you. 

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In this installment of our Risk Management Basics series, we’re going to get very, very basic. In specific, we’re going to ask what does “risk” mean in risk management. How that’s for a basic Risk Management Basics topic?

And before we get going explaining what risk means in the context of risk management, we’d like to invite you to use the comments section to suggest topics for future risk management basics series articles. Just let us know what risky topic you’d like to learn more about…

And if you’re involved in occupational safety and health, feel free to download the free Guide to Using Risk Management for Occupational Safety and Health at the bottom of this article (but note, this article addresses risk management and risk assessment in a general manner and can be applied to any aspect of enterprise risk management).

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Our friends at RedVector hosted Jeff Dalto of Convergence Training for a webinar providing an Introduction to New Safety, including quick introductions to Safety 2, Safety Differently, and Human and Organizational Performance (HOP).

Give it a listen, use the comments section below to write any thoughts you have, and do check out the books, websites, resources, and thinkers

• 9 Things to Know About HOP
• How to Conduct a Learning Team
  
• Preventing Workplace Fatalities 
• What Is Safety Differently? 
• Safety Differently and Safety Training 
• Safety Differently, Incident Reporting & Incident Investigations 
• HOP, Operational Learning & Learning Teams 
• Conducting Pre-Task Pre-Mortems 
• Safety and the Learning Organization 
• Lifelong Learning, Learning Agility & the Learning Organization 
• What Is a Learning Organization? 
• Safety and the Learning Organization
• The Safety Mythologist and 10 Safety Myths 

 

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