By Mark D. Hansen, CPE, CSP, PE, CPEA
Does your CEO have a realistic view of safety? Or does the CEO expect safety to solve all of the company’s problems? This advice can help you align your CEO’s expectations with reality.
Safety & Business
We sometimes forget that until fairly recently, many considered safety to be an [...]

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This can be a chaotic time of year and it’s easy to overlook health and safety best practices at home. But this is precisely the time when we need to be thinking about protecting our kids. So we’ve gathered four tips from the experts to help you get your kids ready for the school year [...]

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By James F. Laboe
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, I discussed four of the seven factors for employers to consider in deciding whether to contest an OSHA violation. Now I’ll look at the final three. There’s a checklist of all seven factors at the end in case you missed one of the earlier [...]

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By Phillip Wells
Sometimes getting the job is worse than not getting the job. Let me describe an experience I had several years ago when I worked for a defense contractor.
The Ax Falls
One day, my immediate supervisor advised me that my position had been eliminated. He explained that the company was reorganizing as [...]

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By Corey Jones

I’m a safety coordinator for EllisDon, one of North America’s largest construction companies. EllisDon is known for taking on and successfully completing some of the world’s most challenging and high profile projects. Safety coordinators at EllisDon must be prepared for all types of projects. Each one poses different challenges. In my own [...]

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By Wayne Pardy, CRSP
Measuring how well a safety program is working is a major challenge. Historically, companies have relied on accident and injury statistics to do this. Last week, in Part 1, we pointed out some of the limitations of this approach. Now, we’ll look at an alternative model, one that integrates performance-based [...]

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By James F. Laboe
There are 7 factors I counsel employers to consider when deciding whether to contest an OSHA violation. Last week, in Part 1 of this series, I discussed two of these factors:

The strength of OSHA’s case, that is, how good a chance OSHA (technically, the Secretary of Labor) has of proving that [...]

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By Lauryn Franzoni
Last week we talked about how to pick the geographic area to which you want to relocate. Let’s now look at what happens next.
Paying Your Own Way
Moving is expensive. Companies will often pay the relocation costs of their employees. But corporations tell us that relocation budgets are still very tight. So [...]

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By John Hidley
In the two previous installments, I explained each of the two basic steps an organization can take to improve the effectiveness of its safety leadership:

Evaluating where you are and determining where you need to be; and
Identifying critical leadership behaviors.

Today, I’ll conclude the series by describing how two organizations [...]

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By Wayne Pardy, CRSP
One of the biggest challenges faced by safety directors, management and workers alike is coming up with a way to measure the success of the company’s safety program. Many companies use accident and injury rates to determine if their safety program is working. Although this is crucial information that must be measured, [...]

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