2025 Community of Human and Organizational Learning 31st Annual Conference

We are diligently trying to reduce incident occurrence, prevent serious injuries and fatalities, and nurture a safety culture that is vibrant and sustainable.

We chose Safety-2 for many reasons. It makes sense to us on many levels.

Safety-2 comes with various names, a history and its evolution. Emerging form traditional safety (known now as Safety-1), we pass through names and initiatives such as Human Performance Improvement (HPI), Human Performance, Safety Differently, and then on to Safety-2 which is also referred to by many as HOP: Human and Organizational Performance.

I have evolved in calling my initiatives from Safety-2 into HOP.

We have been hearing about it for a few years now.

But now that we know what the HOP / Safety-2 history is and what the principles are, many people search for ways to initiate it and sustain it – to make it work - in the real / tree world.

We talk about it a lot these days, but it seems that we keep talking about its evolution and the same five (5) basic principles again and again.

Most of us want the next level discussions. Most of us want to have the HOP discussion split into at least three (3) levels. HOP 101, 201, and 301, for example. We want practical ways to initiate and sustain our initiatives. We want to share what worked and what didn’t. What are the error traps that trip up both workers and leaders?

This presentation assumes our acceptance of the five (5) HOP principles.Lessons learned on how to initiate and sustain a HOP movement in a practical way by building on wins and effective measures that are already in place. What language and terms need to be changed? What has worked for me personally and what has not? What error traps and pitfalls exist? Wow long does it take to bear good fruit? How does one tell who are allies and who are not? Understanding the journey is hard but worth the effort.