2026 Community of Human and Organizational Learning 32nd Annual Conference

Repeat events can erode workforce culture and reduce innovation through the lack of understanding on why the event recurs.  This normalizes risk to the crew who are generally outcome focused rather than process focused.  Partnering with the crew and developing changes to the process WITH them is the key to produce effective change and reduce or prevent reoccurrence of unwanted events.  This presentation will discuss how we got here, and the effort required to improve our process to reduce and mitigate future risk.

When it comes to Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) and those initiatives and programs built around it, the problem is that there are many competing ideas, and most people think it’s got to be one or the other. 
This often leads to “new program” fatigue and disillusionment, which greatly undermines a Safety Professional’s influence. 
I intend to demonstrate how I have methodically built a thriving Human and Organizational (HOP) safety culture into one of the most difficult industries for such a thing, The Utility Line Clearance industry. 
I will lay out how I linked ten existing and newly created safety initiatives / pillars to beat the new program fatigue and disillusionment. 
We will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of the initiatives and how to reinforce the weakness and get maximum leverage from the strengths.
When it comes to the ideas of differing approaches, I say - if it works, it works.