When considering sustainability, many organizations think of environmental concerns and the capacity to endure in this aspect. But what about the sustainability of a safety program? How does the program endure, evolve, and continually improve? Professionals in the safety field … Read More
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How Going Zero Waste Makes Business Sense
Aiming for zero waste may seem daunting to businesses, regardless of size. The required level of know-how could necessitate hiring outside consultants. Concerning profit optimization, the time and money required to build systems that yield no residual by-products may appear … Read More
Does Appearance-Based Safety Leave Room for Improvement?
We live in a world that attaches numbers and metrics to virtually every facet of our lives. We are assessed and graded constantly and fear being on the “losing side.” Intrinsic to human nature is the desire to be viewed … Read More
The Value of Including Safe Observations
The safety profession has an unhealthy fixation on measurements based purely on negative values. OSHA recordable and lost time injuries are the first such statistics that spring to mind (both lagging and—I would suggest—negative indicators). Once they occur, they cannot … Read More
LATCH: Roster-focused Content in a Safety Software Platform
A significant number of cloud-based safety software components are roster-focused, including hazard assessments, personnel lists, training tracking, chemical inventory, and group digital file management. By nature, these aspects tend to be both interrelated and end-user-facing. It is therefore essential that … Read More
Why All the Fuss About “Psychological Safety?”
Back in the 80s, before I had even heard of the term psychological safety, I was the Safety Director for a nuclear plant that was weeks away from startup. As we prepared the plant to operate, several whistleblowers came forward … Read More
