Interview with Dr. TJ Larkin on Communicating Safety [On Location]


Dr. TJ Larkin of Larkin Communication Consulting took a moment after his talk at the 8th Global Congress on Process Safety to sit down with ChEnected and discuss communications strategies that allow good safety policies and initiatives to be effective. Problems getting your safety policies to stick?

Check out what he has to say in the video panel at right.

Has poor communication affected the effectiveness of your safety policies?

Comments

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Rich Byrnes (not verified)

Excellent insights by Dr. Larkin, great interview. The PSM Standard has asked for Employee Involvement, especially in areas such as writing and reviewing operating instructions. Heaven knows us engineers can make the "simple" rather "complex" in language very quickly. Many operators have saved me from the peril of my own pen in the past, when giving me input on what I have written (communicated), or at lease what I thought I had communicated. Thanks for the posting.

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Rich Byrnes (not verified)

I should have had one of our operators review my note first, the second to last sentence. "lease" should be "least", oops, one letter can make a big difference, kind of proves the point doesn't it?..... ;-)