Women often face unique challenges on the job that increase their risk of accidents and injuries. Employers must improve their awareness of these issues so that they can take steps to support female employees. This article will take a closer … Read More
Safety
Preventing Hearing Loss in the Workplace
Some work environments are inherently extremely noisy. This environmental factor could be a serious hazard to workers if it is not handled correctly. As stated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 22 million workers encounter dangerous … Read More
Capturing and Using Leading Safety Metrics
Safety professionals collect data. It doesn’t make a difference if your focus is general safety, occupational hygiene, or a combination of the two. Performing safety observations, collecting air samples, and contributing data analysis to make inferences on potential hazards are … Read More
Relationships Are Not Built Behind a Desk
“If you don’t believe in the messenger, you won’t believe the message.” –Kouzes & Posner Much of my career and my writings have focused on building trust and productive partnerships between organizations’ workforce and leadership through personal and adult-to-adult interactions. … Read More
Safety, Commonsense, and Nonsense
Nonsense “Safety is nothing more than using common sense! In the aftermath of accidents, 85% are found to have been preventable.” “According to safety professionals, 4 in 5 serious injuries are the result of workers not being sensible on the job and … Read More
Safety Observation Training – The Feedback Conversation
When a safety system is built around simply observing and recording results, it can create a culture where workers experience inspectors as ‘unwelcome outsiders’ rather than ‘trusted partners.’ In a previous article, Safety Observation Program Defined, certain observation approaches that … Read More
