Engagement Culture at Every Level
Michael M. Williamsen, PhD
Cobden, IL, USA
This edition first published 2021
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Acknowledgements
Katy Crane, an original owner of CoreMedia developed a friendship with Dr. Dan Petersen which led to my joining CoreMedia with her when they needed a replacement for then retiring Dr. Dan. Katy also started the drive to focus on safety culture and thus was one of the pioneers in this important field of safety performance excellence.
Tim Crane, my former partner and close and intense friend in CoreMedia. Because of Tim's leadership CoreMedia had the vision of beginning a safety culture consulting business unit. He also continued to fund the effort as well as push innovation and IT solutions for this new venture even in times of severe business uncertainty and cash flow struggles.
Brad Cosgrove was the CoreMedia, and later global manufacturing company, graphics technician. His innovation, skill, and perseverance kept us on the forward edge of graphics excellence.
David Crouch was one of my former managers at the global manufacturing company. David went through a similar effort to write his first book. His guidance and encouragement to my efforts were of great value to me.
Andy Schneider was the corporate global manager of safety for the entire worldwide company. Over the years Andy did an incredible job of working with the company's more than 500 worldwide manufacturing sites to reduce injuries. As the organization plateaued at a RIF of about 1, Andy searched for a company to buy that concentrated on safety culture excellence. Thank you, Andy, for bringing our small team on board and challenging and supporting our unique safety culture approach worldwide.
Aaron Janisko was a safety manger leader who has spent untold hours with me discussing and developing safety excellence under very difficult circumstances. Aaron is one of many such caring, engaged, intense safety professionals our team and I have had the pleasure of working with over the years. They have helped our process, and we in turn have helped their performance. It has been an incredible journey for all of us.
Dave Fennell is a recently retired Exxon Mobile Imperial Oil safety manager in Alberta Canada. Dave was one of the first safety professionals to embrace Dr. Dan Petersen's cultural approach to achieving safety excellence. Dave has been a good friend and a safety culture innovator for as long as I can remember. The risk tolerance material is all his.
Erik Williamsen, my son, did all the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software conversion for Dr. Charles Bailey's Railroad Study booklet. The only surviving copy I could find of this embryonic safety culture work was a photocopy of the original book. It was barely legible, yet Erik spent hours doing the conversions of the text and excel graphics materials which now appear in the appendix of this book.
Mark Mays, a close friend from our days when our family lived in Colorado. Mark has deep interest and academic course work in creative writing along with an interest in writing a book. During a ski trip in Colorado, blizzard conditions snowed us in for three days giving us the time and venue to outline this book. Mark's ongoing critiques of my many drafts were of significant importance to my being able to finish this work.
John Busch, has had a broad professional career in teaching, research, and government service, including being the Chairman of Engineering at LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. Dr. Busch edited my doctoral dissertation and thus insured its first pass acceptance with no changes by the dissertation committee of Columbia Southern University in Orange Coast, Alabama. John more recently spent many hours helping me with the final editing polishes necessary to get this book accepted by the publisher, John Wiley and Sons.
Raelee Williamsen, my wife of 50+ years and her brother Tom, who lives with us on our small farm, keep the television and radio on until 10 p.m. most nights. In turn, this provides the necessary incentive for me to move out to my man cave office in the barn and do the many hours of work necessary to complete this book.
Domino, our cat who walks around the farm with me in the dark
