Building Safer People.
Strengthening Safety Systems.
While LCS can support organizations through serious incident investigations, our primary focus is developing people and building safety capability that lasts.
Teaching
Mentorship
Speaking
Investigation
Our work is built around a simple belief: the strongest safety organizations don’t just have better procedures, they have better-equipped people who know how to recognize risk, understand failure, lead effectively, and continuously improve.
Teaching
Our teaching combines proven methodologies with decades of operational, safety, and investigation experience. The goal isn’t simply for participants to complete a course. It is for them to leave with knowledge they can use, explain, teach others, and apply under pressure.
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Experience Based
90%
Practical
Teaching Areas
We don’t teach safety as theory. We teach it as a practice.
Participants learn from someone who has worked in operational environments, led safety teams, investigated serious incidents, facilitated root cause analysis, and coached leaders through difficult situations.
Who It’s For
- Safety professionals
- Supervisors
- Frontline leaders
- Managers
- EHS teams
- Incident investigation teams
- Emerging safety professionals
- Organizations developing internal safety capability
Root Cause Analysis & Incident Investigation
Develop the ability to investigate incidents systematically, identify contributing factors, understand underlying causes, and develop meaningful corrective actions.
Safety Leadership
Develop the skills required to influence safety beyond policies and procedures, including leadership accountability, decision-making, communication, and organizational learning.
Safety Systems & Continuous Improvement
Understand how policies, processes, controls, people, and organizational conditions interact to influence safety performance.
TapRooT®
Learn and apply the TapRooT® methodology for structured root cause analysis and investigation.
Incident Response & Management
Build the knowledge and confidence required to respond effectively when serious incidents occur.
Industry & Organization-Specific Training
Training can be adapted to the specific risks, operating environment, and needs of an organization.
Mentoring
Safety can be a difficult profession to navigate. Knowing the regulations and procedures is only part of the job. Safety professionals must also learn how to investigate, communicate, influence leaders, challenge decisions, manage difficult conversations, understand organizational behavior, and make sound judgments when the situation isn’t clear.
That’s where experience matters.
LCS brings decades of operational, investigation, safety leadership, and mentoring experience to help safety professionals work through the challenges that cannot be learned from a textbook.
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Tailored Approach
Fully
operational
Focus Areas
Mentorship Isn’t Consulting.
Consulting solves a problem for an organization.
Mentorship helps develop the person who will solve the next problem.
That distinction is central to LCS.
The objective isn’t to create dependence on an external consultant. It is to help organizations develop people who can increasingly handle complex safety challenges themselves.
Who It’s For
- New safety professionals
- Experienced safety professionals
- Safety coordinators
- Safety advisors
- Safety managers
- Supervisors moving into safety leadership
- Emerging EHS leaders
- Investigation team members
Career Development
Build a stronger professional foundation and identify the skills required to progress in your safety career.
Incident Investigation
Strengthen your ability to plan investigations, ask better questions, analyze evidence, identify causes, and communicate findings.
Professional Judgment
Work through complex safety situations with an experienced mentor who can challenge your thinking and provide another perspective.
Safety Leadership
Develop the confidence and judgment required to influence supervisors, managers, and senior leaders.
Root Cause Analysis
Develop deeper analytical thinking and learn how to distinguish symptoms from systemic causes.
Communication & Influence
Learn how to present safety information effectively and have difficult conversations with people at every level of an organization.
speaking
Patrick speaks to organizations, safety teams, leadership groups, conferences, and professional audiences about the realities of safety, incident investigation, root cause analysis, leadership, organizational learning, and the lessons hidden inside serious incidents.
His presentations draw from decades of experience in operational environments and some of the most challenging safety and investigation situations of his career.
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factual Approach
Core
Analysis
Speaking Topics
A good safety presentation should do more than fill an hour.
It should challenge assumptions, create conversation, and leave people thinking differently about the way they work.
Speaking Formats
- Keynote presentations
- Conference sessions
- Leadership presentations
- Safety meetings
- Workshops
- Professional development sessions
- Organization-wide safety events
What Really Causes Incidents?
Why “human error” and “failure to follow procedure” are often the beginning of an investigation, not the end.
The Role of the Safety Professional
Moving from compliance administrator to trusted advisor, educator, and organizational influencer.
Root Cause Thinking
How to look beyond the obvious and understand the systems behind failure.
Lessons From Serious Incidents
What organizations can learn from fatalities, fires, explosions, serious injuries, and near misses.
Safety Leadership
How leaders shape the conditions in which safe and unsafe decisions are made.
Learning From Failure
How organizations can turn incidents into meaningful improvement rather than simply producing another report.
Investigating
When a significant incident occurs, organizations need more than a description of what happened. They need to understand why it happened, what conditions contributed to it, and what needs to change.
LCS can provide experienced investigation and root cause analysis support for moderate to significant workplace incidents and near misses.
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Structured
Deep
Analysis
Investigation Services
A good safety presentation should do more than fill an hour.
It should challenge assumptions, create conversation, and leave people thinking differently about the way they work.
The LCS Approach
An investigation should not exist simply to answer:
“What happened?”
It should answer:
“Why did the system allow it to happen?”
LCS approaches investigations without a predetermined conclusion. The objective is to establish the facts, understand the conditions surrounding the event, identify meaningful causes, and help the organization learn.
Patrick’s investigation background includes serious incidents involving fatalities, fires, explosions, serious injuries, H2S exposure, mining, drilling, construction, gas processing, aviation, utilities, cranes, and significant near misses.
Incident Investigation
Structured investigation of significant workplace incidents and near misses.
TapRooT® Analysis
Application of TapRooT® methodology to complex incident investigations.
Corrective Action Development
Moving from findings to practical actions designed to reduce the likelihood of recurrence.
Senior Leadership Briefings
Clear communication of findings, causes, recommendations, and lessons learned to organizational leadership.
Root Cause Analysis
Identification of underlying and systemic causes using structured RCA methodologies.
Investigation Facilitation
Experienced facilitation for internal investigation teams.
Investigation Team Mentoring
Helping internal investigation teams improve their capability while conducting real investigations.
OUR Process
How We Operate
LCS services are designed to work together to make your people better.
Learn
Build knowledge through practical safety teaching and professional training.
Develop
Build confidence, judgment, and leadership capability through mentorship.
Apply
Put that knowledge into practice through speaking, workshops, exercises, and real-world challenges.
Improve
Use investigation, root cause analysis, and lessons learned to identify where systems can become stronger.
Talk to a Safety Specialist
Whether you’re looking to train your team, develop a safety professional, bring Patrick in to speak, or need specialized support following a significant incident, LCS can help determine the right approach.