2018 NSC SCE

Ron Ragain
Executive Director
The RAD Group


Ron is co-founder and Executive Director of The RAD Group. He received his doctorate in Psychology from George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1977. In addition to serving on the faculties of Stephen F. Austin State University, Belmont University and Iowa State University, he has been a consultant to hundreds of organizations around the world since beginning his consulting career in 1981. Dr. Ragain has actual hands-on experience in the oil and gas industry having worked in both refineries and on offshore drilling rigs. He has developed and implemented organizational improvement programs in every segment of the oil and gas industry, aircraft maintenance, alarm & security systems, retail merchants, restaurants, newspapers, hospitals and transportation. He specializes in organizational diagnosis, organizational and individual performance improvement, and safety improvement. Dr. Ragain is co-author of many training programs including SafetyCompass®, PerformanceCompass®, and Performance Management in the Workplace which have been used to train thousands of managers/supervisors around the world. He is also co-author of the forthcoming book, SafetyCompass: A practical guide to stopping and redirecting unsafe operations. Conference Presentation Sample Behavioral Safety Now International Association of Drilling Contractors - HSE&T Conference Greater Houston STEPS Southern Gas Association Texas Workforce Commission Mercer Safety Conference Recent Publications “Complexity & Agility: Why the Human Element is Critical to Operational Safety.” EHS Today, 2012. “What the CSB Got Wrong: Danger in a Process versus Personal Safety Approach.” Occupational Health & Safety Online, 2012. “A Study of Safety Interventions: The causes and consequences of employees’ silence.” EHS Today, 2011. “Study: Employees intervene in only 2 of 5 observed unsafe acts.” Drilling Contractor, 2011. “Managing from a Distance: Why so challenging?” The Communicator, 2011.

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