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October, 2005
The Tale of the Spontaneous Confessor
Introduction
The name’s O’Shay, OSHA CSHO. Nick O’Shay. I’m an OSHA CSHO (Compliance Safety and Health Officer) – an inspector. The guys in the Area Office call me the “Old Man” and “Citation Nick” because I’ve been inspecting workplaces for 26 years.
My message to you employers out there: Play by the rules, and we can be [...]
The Changing Workforce
A few weeks ago, my colleague Glenn Demby referred to a study conducted by Age Wave and The Concourse Group that breaks workers into six distinct categories [Editor's Note: See Safety Careers Weekly, Sept. 9]. This is an important study and I’d like to discuss it in a little more detail.
Study Background
Entitled the “New Employee/Employer [...]
On the Road with Safety Herb
Six times a year, the safety manager of Westmark Hotel sets out to make the “howdy rounds” to the 1,500 people he trains. Those people are spread out across Alaska and the Yukon Territories. To say “howdy” to them all this safety manager must drive 2,800 miles.
This is obviously not your normal training trip. But [...]
Part 1: Defining Roles and Responsibilities
The safety profession is rife with clichés. One of the most venerable: “Safety is everybody’s responsibility.” If safety is everybody’s responsibility in general, then it is nobody’s responsibility in particular. So be careful about using this cliché. Unless and until you define and assign specific responsibilities to the members of your “team,” they won’t know [...]
Incident Response, Part 1 of 3: The Incident Management Plan
The ultimate goal of the safety professional is to prevent incidents. That’s a laudable goal. But we sometimes get so caught up in prevention that we tend to overlook another important aspect of our job: Reacting to incidents. The fact of the matter is that incidents, both natural and man-made, do happen. They always have [...]
Rudy Giuliani and the Secret of Leadership
Dear SafetyXChange Members:
I make it a point to regularly get out of my office to rub elbows with the pinstripe suits and bask in the ambient light of their BlackBerries and Treos. One of my recent “field trips” was to the World Business Forum: Leadership Speaks at Radio City Music Hall in New York [...]
How to Address Language Barriers at Work
In the last 20 years, Spanish has become a major language on construction sites. The same thing is happening in other industries. Based on a recent report from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Hispanic employment in the private sector nearly doubled from 1990 to 2001, reaching 11 percent in 2001.
The question safety professionals need [...]
Let the Debate Begin
By the SafetyXChange Members
Thanks to everyone who commented on Elizabeth Johnston’s series on the need for PPE tailored to the female form. Here is a sampling of what you had to say.
Amen, Sister
I say AMEN to Elizabeth!
Women definitely get a RAW DEAL (pun intended) in the PPE market. From SCBA face pieces that DON’T FIT [...]
OSHA Unveils Its Top 10 List
By Glenn Demby, Esq.
Last week’s National Safety Council conclave in Orlando witnessed the perpetuation of a new tradition: the unveiling of the OSHA list of top 10 most often-issued citations for the year so far. The envelope, please. . .
The Results
The total number for all 10 citations on the list is 40,463. [...]
