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Reflections on the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) annual meeting, 2024 

Alan Palmer was delighted to take the stage alongside Jennifer McKeon and CITGO’s Sterling Neblett to discuss, ‘The Next Generation of Workplace Safety.’

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JMJ’s Alan Palmer speaking about the next generation of workplace safety at the AFPM Annual Meeting 

JMJ will challenge traditional safety approaches, proposing a proactive approach to cultivate a safety culture that fosters a safer workplace.

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Highlights from the EHS for Biopharma Summit, 2024

Challenges, initiatives and talking points.

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Join us at the AFPM Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas 

JMJ will be at the upcoming American Fuel and Petrochemicals Manufacturers (AFPM) Annual Meeting.

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Innovative solutions for a global safety culture strategy

How multinational organizations leverage technology to navigate risks and create alignment.

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Insights from ECC Extra Conference 2024

Exploring crucial issues related to safety and well-being in the engineering, construction and capital projects industry.

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Happy new culture: How technology and innovation will drive transformation strategies in 2024

JMJ explores how organizations are innovating to actively cultivate safer, more supportive work environments.

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Takeaways from the 2023 UTA Oil and Gas Safety, Health and Environment Conference

Exploring a wide range of crucial issues related to safety and well-being in the oil and gas industry.

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Safety Leadership Signature Program showcases Aramco’s commitment to safety excellence

A recent Aramco LIFE feature highlighted the partnership between Aramco, JMJ, and Q5 in developing and delivering a Safety Leadership Signature Program (SLSP).

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The secret to building a high-performance culture: Proactive problem solving

By accepting the inevitability of breakdown, leaders open the door to innovative problem solving and successful resolutions.

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JMJ speaking on Psychological Safety at NSC Safety Congress & Expo 

Senior Consultant, Hal Rabbino and will present on the topic “Fostering psychological safety: A catalyst for personal and enterprise transformation.”

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Leading indicators: Strategies for safety and success without searching for a silver bullet!

Four senior safety managers answer the question, "What are the best leading indicators for safety?"

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The fundamentals of safety leadership: Lessons from a Major Capital Project

Two project leaders share safety leadership lessons from the Fab 14 MCP.

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LNG Canada module fabrication capital project success

Major capital project, LNG Canada, achieved project success as teams worked to create a culture of excellence, setting new benchmarks in the industry.

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Starting Strong and Staying Strong for major capital project success

Major capital projects around the world are bringing key companies and players together to Start Strong.

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Contrasting approaches to quality and safety in two major capital projects

Two projects with a lot in common and some notable differences.

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18 years on: Lessons learned from the Texas City refinery disaster

Why learning must go beyond the job in hand.

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JMJ’s Jay Greenspan shares engineering and construction CEOs’ workplace safety concerns with Construction Dive

CEOs say jobsite safety has slipped since the pandemic.

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JMJ’s Larry Pearlman contributes leadership and safety insights to Journal of Protective Coatings and Linings

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How sharing experiences across industries can accelerate safety transformation

An innovative partnership heralded a new era of safety for a transport and development company.

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The global safety mega-trends every business leader should be aware of in 2023

Our experts share their thoughts on the most significant challenges and opportunities for the year ahead

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An innovative approach to creating a global safety culture

A virtual platform can deliver your safety vision sustainably, and at scale.

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Dynamic leadership makes the difference in safe, world-class performance

Australian Institute of Health and Safety Webinar

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JMJ speaking at Australian Institute for Health and Safety webinar

Mike Goddu will speak about Dynamic Leadership & Culture: Pathways to Safe World-Class Performance

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Culture change is the key to protecting your organization’s mental health

Eight ways leaders can create a positive mental health culture.

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JMJ speaking at Charlotte Regional Safety & Health Conference

Managing Director – Americas Market Leader, Larry Pearlman, will present Keeping Workers Safe | The First 90 Days

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JMJ’s Rick Cates is National Truck Driving Championship’s ‘Senator’

Title honors Cate's 50 years of involvement with NTDC's organizing committee.

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Is technology the answer to construction’s safety challenge?

New technologies have the potential to make construction safer but their success depends on leadership's commitment to a safety culture.

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JMJ attending National Truck Driving Championships to promote a safety culture in the trucking industry

Annual event is a great incentive for professional truck drivers to operate safely and create a safety culture.

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Keeping construction workers safe – the first 90 days

How to ensure your new employees understand your safety culture and stick to it!

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JMJ speaking at the National Safety Council (NSC) Safety Congress and Expo Conference

Larry Pearlman, Managing Director - Americas Market Leader will host a keynote session at the event.

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Safety leadership: How to achieve new levels of safety performance

"Safety leadership is a set of skills, awareness and capabilities that can, and need to be developed and applied (in tandem with safety management) to achieve new levels of safety performance."

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Is safety over-managed and under-led?

"Correcting bad behavior – trying to fix people – will not lead to sustained safety performance improvement. We need to give the time, energy and thinking to safety leadership that we give to safety management."

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LaGuardia Airport Terminal B Capital Project receives National Academy of Construction (NAC) Award

Prestigious award for internationally-recognized project.

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Safety organization: Lessons learned from benchmarking staff levels

Larry Pearlman, Managing Director, Americas Market Leader, spoke at a recent Louisiana Chemical Association (LCA) event alongside Samantha Connell, Global Health Director, and Todd Hogue, Global Vice President, Indorama ventures.

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Safety anchors Forgen’s company culture

Adopting Incident and Injury-Free™ safety principles helped support a committed, collaborative safety culture.

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Keeping workers safe – the first 90 days

Three top tips to ensure new employees understand your safety culture and stick to it!

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Renewable energy: Learning from the safety lessons of other industries

Larry Pearlman, Managing Director - Americas Market Leader at JMJ, discusses renewable energy’s steep safety learning curve. What are the challenges the industry faces? What valuable lessons can it learn from other industries? What 10 steps can leaders take now to create the foundations for a safety culture?

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Ten ways safety leaders can create a more psychologically safe workplace

Mark Britton, Chief Operating Officer - Global Consulting, at JMJ explores the steps leadership can take to ensure people speak up about their safety concerns.

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Why our evolutionary instincts sometimes run counter to safety best practices

The imperatives that are hardwired into human DNA can put us at odds with the requirements of an organizational safety culture.

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JMJ speaking at Purdue University Process Safety and Assurance Center Spring Conference

Managing Director – Americas Market Leader, Larry Pearlman will speak about process safety implications for renewable energy.

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Why ‘rules first’ won’t improve your plant or site safety performance

A foundation of rules isn't the way to build a thoughtful, caring safety culture.

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JMJ presenting at the annual Petroleum Safety Conference in Canada

Managing Director – Americas Market Leader, Larry Pearlman will present, ‘Keeping Workers Safe | The First 90 Days,' at the event organized by Energy Safety Canada

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JMJ sponsors Construction Safety Week 2022

Safety Week is an annual initiative to build a safer, stronger industry

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Ten cardinal rules for line managers

Many organizations have spent considerable time and effort developing ‘golden safety rules’ for their workforce to follow. But what about managers? What ‘rules’ do they apply to their own behaviors? What can employees expect from them?

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JMJ client, LNGC, wins prestigious award

JMJ has been working with LNGC at multiple project locations for three years.

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BAM Nuttall achieves a sustainable shift in organizational culture

A strengthened commitment to safety culture, and increased employee engagement created measurable results.

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Implementing an Incident and Injury-Free™ (IIF™) safety culture on a major capital project

Four golden opportunities provided by implementing Incident and Injury-Free safety into the Front-End Engineering Design phase of a major capital project.

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Five steps to achieving high performance on your major capital projects

Recommended steps to improve performance and meet success criteria on time and on budget.

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JMJ recognized as one of the top 10 leadership development companies of 2021

The Manage HR Magazine list is comprised of the best leadership development companies based on a rigorous, multi-layered process.

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Inclusion part 2: Effective virtual communication in an inclusive culture

Practical advice for leaders navigating the challenges of inclusion and diversity in the virtual working world.

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Developing a safety and leadership culture in major capital projects

JMJ interviewed David Wilson, a leader in the energy industry about the impact a safe and productive culture has on workers' health and well-being.

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Inclusion part 1: Driving an inclusive culture in the virtual workplace

Being inclusive can be difficult under any circumstances, it’s even harder when people aren’t in the same room, can’t read each other’s body language, are stressed and may not be communicating and leading as well as usual.

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Four key takeaways for construction leaders to help shape the future of the industry

JMJ was honored to participate in Jacobs Engineering’s first Safety Symposium. Over 150 construction leaders from across the region participated in the session. This brief summary of the event includes our four key takeaways for construction industry leaders.

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New paper from JMJ helps CEOs assess readiness for Serious Accidents Punishment Act

New white paper from JMJ urges Korean business leaders to establish an organizational safety mindset and 'one team' culture as an imperative.

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JMJ helping create a safety culture at Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering

JMJ has laid a solid foundation to build a people-centered safety culture and will work with the client's senior leadership to generate a sustainable impact across the organization.

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Catastrophe and systematic change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower and other disasters

New book by JMJ Master Consultant, Gill Kernick, attempts to understand why, despite enormous efforts, we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events

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Safety Leadership Toolbox Talk: When Push Comes to Shove

JMJ's Toolbox Talks are designed to stimulate conversations around workplace safety and contribute to overall organizational efficiency, productivity and success.

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Safety Leadership Toolbox Talk: “It Won’t Happen to Me”

The Incident and Injury-Free™ (IIF™) Toolbox Talks created by JMJ highlight 52 thought-provoking topics in four major categories: personal, behavioral, cultural and systems.

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Lessons from Grenfell: Why aren’t we learning?

In an interview for Safety and Health Practitioner, JMJ's Gill Kernick speaks about the lack of systematic change in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.

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The danger of the narratives we use to silence: Grenfell and the rebel residents

JMJ Master Consultant Gill Kernick, shares her insights about the narratives used to silence individuals meaning critical information is not used in making key decisions.

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A conversation with Dana Davis, President of Teichert Materials a construction company

Michael Huvane, JMJ Master Consultant, and, Dana Davis, President of Teichert Materials, a US-based construction materials company explore the relationship between a strong culture of safety and operational effectiveness.

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Power and accountability: Policy lessons from catastrophic events, published in FIRE magazine

JMJ Master Consultant Gill Kernick writes about how the quality and impact of politicians’ responses to major incidents would improve by attending to the psychological contract with those impacted. The article was published by FIRE magazine, a UK Fire safety and prevention magazine. Gill lived on the 21st Floor of Grenfell Tower from 2011 to […]

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Life of a leader during COVID-19

JMJ’s Master Consultant Gill Kernick asks Tamsin Lishman, Asset Director at Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) how they are adapting leadership practices to ensure the safety of their workers.

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Emerging leadership in a world post Covid-19 crisis

Join JMJ Co-founder Mike Goddu in a conversation on the role of leadership in a post Covid-19 crisis world.

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Senior vice president of petrochemicals shares joint venture mega project success

Chevron Phillips teamed with JMJ to significantly change safety culture with incident and injury-free safety leadership.

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Life of a leader during Covid-19

JMJ Master Consultant Gill Kernick as she interviews Tamsin Lishman, Asset Director, Northumbrian Water. Lishman about how the organization has adapted to the 'new normal'.

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Covid-19: Five principles for managers leading remotely, and the first one is ‘there are no rules!’

These five principles provide a helpful game plan for you and your team to stay engaged and connected while working virtually.

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From interruption to disruption

As we become accustomed to new ways of operating in response to COVID-19, leaders must discover how to navigate this extended period of continuous disruption and rapid change.

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What Helmuth von Moltke the Elder taught me about being a parent and a leader during the Coronavirus pandemic

Camille Ford, JMJ Managing Consultant, shares some of her personal and professional lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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We’ll cascade it down to the front line …

If your company initiatives don’t work, or only partially succeed, your leadership approach may need to be overhauled to include the people most affected by organizational change.

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Craig L Martin former President and CEO of Jacobs Engineering Group honored for leadership and construction safety record at ENR

or nearly a half century, Craig L. Martin, former president and CEO of Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering Group, specialized in major infrastructure projects worldwide, including energy, transportation, environmental, water and wastewater, power, utilities and telecommunications.

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DSHI fabrication yards in Korea builds strong safety culture on major capital project

JMJ leads customized safety success story for Tengiz Chevron Oil Future Growth Project, a major capital wellhead pressure management project.

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Japanese engineering and construction corporation achieves breakthrough improvement in safety performance

The JGC Corporation built a new safety culture across its entire organization, positively impacting local and overseas projects.

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Russian petroleum operations company achieves shift in health and safety culture in nine months

A tailor-made approach from JMJ helped SPD achieve measurable safety results

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Achieving high-performance project execution on a joint venture project, delivering on cost, schedule and goals, resulting in a smooth transition to operations

This Australian energy company had never executed a project of this scale before. The challenges faced were significant and the project scope ambitious.

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Energy major capital project completes on schedule with quality marks met

$2.8B major capital project completed safely, on schedule and on budget.

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Energy company Shell Scotford achieved extraordinary turnaround success with the creation of a safety culture in the planned 60 days

A commitment to a safety culture delivered breakthrough results.

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IGD Habshan 5 Process Plant Project achieved extraordinary project success

The project's sfinished on schedule, resulting in significant revenue savings for the client and all stakeholders in comparison to a number of similar-sized projects that suffered delays.

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Energy company Maersk Oil Qatar describes strong operations management safety culture

How Maersk engaged its workforce in a positive safety culture.

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Over the course of three capital projects, GS Caltex celebrates dramatic results

The IIF journey was implemented in three phases to create a thriving safety culture.

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Construction of the Shell Pearl Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plant set a world record in Qatar and Shell’s 100-year project history

A strong commitment from leadership and contractors was instrumental to delivering world-class safety performance.

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Cal Dive builds corporate culture with JMJ’s Incident and Injury-Free™ (IIF™) safety approach

Creating a strong safety culture and Incident and Injury-Free workplace delivered measurable improvements.

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British Airport Authority engages JMJ to create safety culture at Heathrow’s Terminal Five

JMJ was engaged to support the T5 Project Management Team (PMT) in implementing a full IIF safety program across the entire project, including all contractors

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Skanska Cementation Foundations partners with JMJ, reducing injury rates by 75% in four years

The IIF engagement has created an award-winning safety culture within the organization.

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BHP Billiton improves leadership team relationships and leadership skills

JMJ's integral approach helped improve the organization's leadership skills.

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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company

JMJ's Incident and Injury-Free approach complimented existing policies and procedures to create a culture that embraces safety practices.

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Manson Construction Co.

JMJ helped cause a shift in Manson’s thinking about safety and leadership’s relationships with its employees.

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BP North America Gas SPU

BP's leadership experienced a significant impact from the leadership development program they undertook with JMJ.

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