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R. N. Knowles & Associates Inc. - January, 2011
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We help people---(teams and organizations)---

    to reach rational solutions to complex problems while simultaneously building the social connections and emotional energy and commitment to quickly and effectively get the best results.

    If you want your team, organization, or business to move forward quickly and achieve your key initiatives---with clarity, coherence and collaborative success--please call us.

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(Per the OSHA website): With every one of these fatalities, the lives of a worker's family members were shattered and forever changed. We can't forget that fact! ~Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor

Enforcement: Targeting High Risk Worksites

What do employers need to know? OSHA is making sure that they are inspecting those establishments that have the most problems and avoid inspecting those establishments that are providing a safe and healthful work environment.

So where does your Worksite stand? How effective are your safety efforts? What is your Organization's safety record? What are your site's safety trends? Who's leading your safety effort? Who are the true safety champions? Who cares enough to make the safety difference?

The January 2011 issue of Professional Safety Magazine emphasizes Leadership and the need for Advanced Safety Leadership skills.

Effective leadership skills are essential for strong safety performance and culture. They are even more crucial in the current environment of uncertainty, uneven morale and reduced resources---and many organizations recognize this need.


Advanced Leaders in Safety are Culture Changers! Who is making the safety difference in your organization?

Call us. We are experts in Safety Leadership and Changing Safety Culture for the better.

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SAFETY LEADERSHIP:

The Principle: "I don't have a right to make my living where it is okay for you to get hurt." ~Richard N Knowles, Belle, WV

The leadership of safety is a key focus in our leadership work. Over 95% of all injuries and incidents are the result of the actions of people. So reducing unsafe behaviors is the path to reducing injuries and incidents. Our processes quickly generate alignment, focus and energy producing visible, easily measured results through the reduction of unsafe acts; this is the path to reducing injuries and results.

SAFETY LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS: We engage the workforce in this practical, hands-on approach which enables the people to see their actual safety behaviors, helps them to co-create and reach rational solutions to their safety issues and supports them as they move forward to doing the real work of building a safer workplace. Often, the participants quickly see how to apply the ideas and skills learned in these workshops to other parts of their business resulting in broadly based , sustainable business improvements.


We use proprietary, proven processes to accomplish this in these 1-2 day workshops. Over 150 of these Safety Leadership Workshops have been successfully run in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in the last 10 years. When management credibly supports this work the injury and incident rates drop to significantly lower levels and the new performance is sustainable.

THE BUSINESS CASE: Since an average OSHA Recordable Injury costs between $25,000 and $30,000, a rapid reduction in injuries results in significant improvements in earnings as well as in employee morale and dedication. Those organizations, who build on the workshops we lead, use the maps we've developed together, and actively support the safety teams and their discussions see rapid improvements in the organization's safety performance - often achieving over a 50% reduction in injury frequency rates in just a few months.

"I don't have a right to make my living where it is okay for you to get hurt." Richard N. Knowles


Richard N. Knowles & Associates Inc.