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The 80/20 Way to Lead Safety and Run a Steadier Business
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Ebook and fillable Field Guide released . Print forthcoming · January 19, 2027.
About the book
Most companies run safety from one slide at the back of the board pack: a rate nobody upstairs reads, slogans on the wall, and a program that starts over after every serious injury. A plant that can’t keep its people safe can’t keep a process stable either. The injuries, the overtime, the scrap and the turnover come from the same few jobs.
First, Nobody Gets Hurt applies 80/20 thinking to harm. Find the few jobs that do most of the damage, by count and by cost, and screen every event for the potential to kill or maim. Fix the work instead of retraining the worker. Hear about the near miss before the injury. Read every recordable within a day, with a root cause inside three days, and put three numbers on page one of the board pack every month: the recordable rate, the experience mod and the near misses.
The book follows Kessling Fabricating & Coatings, an invented company with two plants and 640 people, for a thousand days: from a recordable rate of 6.8 to 2.1 in two years, with near-miss reports up from 12 a year to 710 and a $4.4 million EBITDA gain its CFO signed line by line. Your team does the work in First, Nobody Gets Hurt · The Field Guide.
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How to use it
Start with the harm Pareto: rank the injuries by count and by cost, and screen every event for the potential to kill or maim. Fix the work on the few jobs that matter, make the near-miss card the easiest report in the plant and read every recordable within a day. Work the Field Guide’s thirty-six worksheets with the plant manager, the safety lead and the shift supervisors, and put three numbers on page one of the board pack.
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The companion
Fillable PDF available
Thirty-six worksheets, one instrument to a page, with Kessling’s version filled in beside every blank: the first page and its three numbers, the harm Pareto and the SIF screen, the hazard hunt, the controls ladder, the near-miss card, the leader floor walk, the 24-hour report and the root cause, and the board page. The 134-page PDF has 1,893 fillable fields.
Letter-size, built to be written in. Print and fillable PDF. The book keeps the narrative; the guide holds the working paper.
The author
Bill Canady runs two billion-dollar-plus companies — one at $1.1 billion and one at $1.5 billion — as Chairman and CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products and Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies. Across global industrial markets he has delivered over $3 billion in shareholder value. A U.S. Navy veteran with an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, he created the Profitable Growth Operating System (PGOS). He is the author of The 80/20 CEO, The Rule of Three, and other books in the Eighty20 library.
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