Author Archives: Don Groover

Don Groover

About Don Groover

Don Groover brings decades of practical and technical experience to BST’s safety performance improvement work. Certified in safety and industrial hygiene, Don has worked across all types of industries helping organizations create high performing cultures and fully align systems with the organization’s value for safety.

Metrics & Potential

By: Don Groover – December 20, 2011
What we measure matters. And how we measure things, particularly in safety, affect the actions we take and our ability to reliably protect employees from harm. But metrics can also create blind spots when we fail to make the right distinctions.

5 Ways to Measure Safety Performance

By: Don Groover - December 13, 2011
It’s every safety leader’s nightmare scenario: a work site with a stellar safety record has an accident, or string of accidents, with no apparent warning. Clearly, the warning signs were there–they just weren’t detected or effectively captured.

Talking About “Injury-Free”

By: Don Groover – December 1, 2011
When we aim for injury-free performance, what do we mean and how will we know when we get there?

3 Trends Shaping the Future of the Safety Profession

By: Don Groover – November 17, 2011
Safety professionals have long been the focal point of an organization’s EHS performance. Still, changes in the business landscape are presenting a new challenge to safety professionals: the new reality is that what made you successful in the past may not be enough for success in the future.