Mike Kinney is president of Safety Culture Strategies, LLC, and has spoken at numerous conferences across the United States, addressing safety culture. He has authored a series of technical papers that address the same topic. He was selected to provide an article for the highly respected Performance 360 Magazine that discusses the important role leaders serve in championing an effective safety culture. He is also the author of Dare to Be a Difference Maker. He is a Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) Certified Safety Professional (CSP), with over thirty years of progressive experience working with numerous organizations and companies across the United States, assisting them with their safety and health programs. Mike is also an Exemplar-Global Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 45001, Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. In addition, he is a graduate of the Ziglar Institute and is a Ziglar certified keynote speaker, leadership coach, and Ziglar Legacy instructor. During his career, Mike has provided senior level consultative support to numerous headquarters' organizational elements within the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and the U.S. Navy. Topics include safety culture, integrated safety management, nuclear safety, facility safety, and worker safety. He has also led a series of accident investigations in addition to conducting evaluations addressing implementation of safety culture attributes, and he has served on Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and DOE/NNSA Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) on-site review teams. When not assisting companies with their safety culture initiatives or serving as a speaker at conferences throughout the United States, Mike enjoys spending time with his amazing wife Mary Elizabeth. You can connect with Mike via his company website: www.scstrat.com and learn about the services offered by Safety Culture Strategies, LLC.
Mike Kinney is right on the mark with Navigating Your Safety Culture Journey. He expertly explains the importance of management commitment, thorough planning, and employee engagement as the true path to safety culture excellence. It's loaded with detailed information every company needs as it travels its safety culture journey. David Gibbs, Lt. Col, USAF (Retired), Program Director, Battlespace, Inc. Navigating Your Safety Culture Journey is a well written, highly insightful, and easy to read book that gives the readers the tools necessary to critically evaluate their company's safety culture, its implementation, and the know-how to make lasting and impactful change. The book challenges the reader to critically evaluate their safety culture and make sure it best represents the image the company wants to outwardly portray. In the end, the reader will learn that one solution doesn't fit all, and that a safety culture must be customized to the particular needs of a company. The book is a very good resource that every manager and his management team should read and have on the shelf. Paul Dixon, PhD, Deputy Director, Civilian Nuclear Program Office, Los Alamos, NM. Mike was my Chief of Safety at a large organization doing hazardous testing. He led us on a successful safety culture journey, so you can believe what he says in Navigating Your Safety Culture Journey. Roy D. Bridges, Jr., Major General, USAF (Retired), NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut (Pilot for STS-51F, Spacelab 2)