Alive and Well at the End of the Day, 2nd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Alive and Well describes the successful practice of safety leadership in the real world and real time of operations. The principal source of the book’s content comes about from a thirty‐year career in the chemical industry, where I worked for and around more than a thousand leaders who I knew on a first name basis. Since starting up a consulting practice in 2000 it’s been my privilege and pleasure spending quality time in the classroom and conference room with upwards of a hundred thousand industrial leaders the world over. As the saying goes, “he who teaches learns the most.” There are my good colleagues and friends in our consulting practice, who themselves had successful careers: they, too, have given me so many good ideas about the practice of safety leadership.

This book isn’t so much by me as it is through me. My contribution to the world of safety leadership comes mainly by simply paying attention.

It would be impossible to recognize the contribution made by each and every one of these fine leader’s whose ideas and practices are reflected in the book. There certainly are cases where I distinctly recall the circumstances and exactly what was said and done. But in so many other cases, I was part of a safety culture that had a positive influence on me in subtle but very powerful ways. Leaders deserve full credit for that.

The content of this book reflects what I learned from all these good leaders. For their contribution to Alive and Well, individually and ...