A publication of Jenkins Research Institute
Evidence, ideas and field experience.
A closer look at work.
Occupational safety, systems thinking, human and organizational performance, and learning from work.
Featured article · Event investigation
Learn how to conduct a workplace incident investigation using evidence, timelines, interviews, control analysis, and corrective actions that address underlying conditions.
Read the articleInvestigate an event
Build a supported account, compare investigation approaches, and prepare for employee interviews.
Event investigation
Learn how to conduct a workplace incident investigation using evidence, timelines, interviews, control analysis, and corrective actions that address underlying conditions.
Event investigation
Learn the strengths and limits of root cause analysis and how learning from events can reveal multiple contributing conditions, control weaknesses, and how work actually happens.
Event investigation
Explore practical alternatives to the 5 Whys for safety investigations, including barrier analysis, change analysis, cause mapping, bow-ties, fault trees, and Learning Teams.
Event investigation
Learn how to interview employees after a workplace incident using open-ended questions, neutral language, timely interviews, and evidence-based follow-up.
Event investigation
Start with a supported account, then test the controls before deciding what to change.
HOP & Learning Teams
Start with HOP, explore Learning Teams, and consider how leaders respond to mistakes and everyday work.
Human & Organizational Performance
Learn what Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) means, its five principles, and how HOP changes safety, investigations, leadership, and organizational learning.
Human & Organizational Performance
Learn the five principles of Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), what each means, and how leaders can apply them to safety and everyday work.
Human & Organizational Performance
Learn how Learning Teams improve workplace safety by helping organizations understand normal work, adaptations, controls, and the conditions employees actually face.
Human & Organizational Performance
Learn why human error is usually an insufficient root-cause conclusion and how safety investigations can examine context, controls and organizational conditions instead.
Learning Teams
A Learning Team can examine a task that succeeds every day, especially when success requires adaptation.
Leadership
A fair response asks what people did and what the work system made likely or possible.
Use AI for safety
Explore practical uses, prompts, toolbox talks, and job safety analysis with human judgment and verification.
AI & safety
Learn how safety professionals can use ChatGPT for investigations, JSAs, toolbox talks, training, data analysis and communication while maintaining human judgment and verification.
AI & safety
Copy and adapt 10 practical ChatGPT prompts for safety professionals covering JSAs, investigations, toolbox talks, regulations, Learning Teams, data and procedures.
AI & safety
Learn how safety professionals can use AI and ChatGPT to create more relevant toolbox talks built around real work, verified requirements, critical controls and worker discussion.
AI & safety
Learn how AI and ChatGPT can assist with Job Safety Analysis by structuring tasks, identifying questions, challenging controls and supporting field verification without replacing professional judgment.
Workplace safety basics
Get oriented to OSHA, competent-person responsibilities, reading standards, and job safety analysis.
Safety fundamentals
Learn what OSHA does, how it differs from the OSH Act, who it covers, and the basics of employer responsibilities and worker rights.
Safety responsibilities
Learn what makes an OSHA competent person, how the role differs from a qualified person, and why hazard recognition and corrective authority both matter.
OSHA standards
Learn how to read OSHA standards, decode CFR citations, check scope and definitions, and apply requirements in context.
Job safety analysis
Learn how to break work into steps, identify hazards, select controls, and review a JSA with your crew.
About the journal
Jenkins Industry Safety Journal brings together articles about safety, systems, people and work. The journal is the reading experience; practical tools, examples, downloads, training links and The Jenkins Report remain in the Resource Library.
The current collection contains practical and explanatory articles; it is not labeled as peer reviewed. Review information will state the process an article actually completed. Questions and corrections are welcome through the contact form.
