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You don't need the whole shelf. If you're a supervisor, start with No License to Lead. If you run safety or operations, pick the title that names the problem you're still fighting every week.
If you run operations, read the short list first.
Nine green flags that show a leader is safe to work with, in field terms. Free PDF by email.
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Five methods for the work as it is actually done: Energy, Capacity, Authority, Truth and Proof. Written by a Retired Navy Veteran with 19+ years in EHS.
Each method comes with one question to ask on your own site:
Paperback $39.99 (color, 429 pages) · Hardcover $74.99 (premium color) · Kindle $9.99
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Production runs on owners, standards, a daily rhythm and a scoreboard. Safety gets a binder. EHS OPS shows how to run safety as an operations function, owned by the people who already own throughput, quality and cost. Written for all five chairs at the table.
Safety isn't a department. It's how the operation runs.
Paperback $29.99 (175 pages) · Hardcover $49.99 · Kindle
The journey into the supervisor role. Not an EHS book. For every supervisor who owns a crew.
The audit was clean. The job was not. Start here if the file is prettier than the work.
How communication and authority work at every level of an organization, built on five parts: intent, authority, voice, translation, and learning.
Twenty-one practices of safety leadership. Follow them and your people go home.
The complete operating system for rebuilding your safety management system, so the binder matches the job.
The first field book. Error is normal. The system has to absorb it and still get the work done.
SSIM is the Systemic Safety Integration Model. It scores safety on six axes, keeps the office view and the floor view separate, and never averages them together.
A lean approach. For the executive who still books safety as a cost.
When leaders drift far from the floor, that distance becomes the hazard.
Most work that goes wrong between two people is not a talent problem. It is a missing ask. A two-minute habit for both chairs: name the outcome, what the expected result looks like, when, the limits, and the authority to decide, then hear it said back before anyone walks off.
These aren't safety books. They're for the voice in your own head and the hard feedback from people who expect more of you. Same plain talk as the field books.
For the voice that still wins at one in the morning. You pick a few better voices, give each one a vote, and stop letting your worst hour name you. A field manual, not a pep talk.
For the man who left the room mad because a leader wouldn't take his first draft. How to tell a builder who pushes you from a tyrant who needs you small, and what to do in the hour after you storm out.
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