Safety Labs by Safety Products Global Safety and Operational Excellence with Rob Fisher
Sep 14, 2026
Rob Fisher, an operational excellence expert, author, and founder of Fisher Improvement Technologies, explores why safety should not operate in a silo. He discusses how business decisions create risk, why traditional metrics miss resilience, and how leadership conversations reveal hidden challenges. Fisher also introduces the Essential Leadership Cycle and practical approaches to embedding sustainable improvement across an organization.
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The Missing Bubbler Created A New Hazard
- A purchasing decision to eliminate supposedly noncritical parts removed oil bubblers from pumps.
- Workers replaced them with bolts, creating a hidden finger-amputation hazard during routine oil checks.
Ask What Makes Work Harder Than It Should
- Ask what makes work more difficult, different, or riskier instead of limiting conversations to safety questions.
- Leaders should change their knowledge, language, and behaviors before expecting frontline culture to change.
Measure Capacity To Fail More Safely
- Keep tracking injuries and SIF potential, but emphasize whether corrective actions improve the systems that created risk.
- Use leading evidence such as effective actions, near hits, and documented leadership conversations alongside lagging indicators.
