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2006 Best Practices Articles Index
Every Thursday, SafetyXChange’s Training and Leadership newsletter features an article on how to train, motivate, inspire and build support for your safety program. Here are 12 of our favorite articles from 2006 that we think you will find particularly useful. (Remember that all of our articles are archived on the site. The Training and Leadership [...]
Accident vs. Incident
Before we begin, a word from your moderator:
For the past week, you members of SafetyXChange have been making my life a misery. And I thank you for it.
You see, when we asked you to send in your views on the Accident vs. Incident debate, we expected a nice response. But 50 or so was way [...]
2006 Best Practices Articles Index
It’s been a great year for SafetyXChange. In 2006, we held our first safety industry awards, the Saxcies™, and then launched a new look. We also continued to add new members and new contributors to our community. Here’s a quick look at just 12 of the best articles from this year’s Best Practices Weekly published [...]
5 Key Employment Trends for 2007
Dear SafetyXChange Members:
Every year at this time my company, ExecuNet, lists what we foresee as the key trends in the job market in the months ahead. We just did our forecast for 2007 and it’s full of promise. Unemployment is low and opportunities are there for the taking – in both [...]
Liberating Ourselves from the Doctrines of the Past, Part 1 of 2
Everybody agrees that leadership is crucial to successful safety performance. The rub comes when you ask how leadership should be demonstrated. Like people in other professions, we safety professionals have a tendency to look inward for answers. This is a mistake, one that limits the search for new solutions and approaches. [...]
How to Use Search Engines to Your Advantage
Dear SafetyXChange Members:
Google and other Internet search engines have changed job seeking like they’ve changed everything else. What hath Google wrought? And how can you, as safety professionals, take advantage of Google to enhance your job search and career prospects? Here are three quick tips.
1. Give Yourself a Regular Google
Understand [...]
An Approach in Three Scenarios, Part 4 of 4
Two types of conflict can occur in the workplace: unnecessary conflict and resolvable conflict. The first two parts of this series looked at resolving the former; last week, we laid out a 10-step strategy to deal with the latter. Let’s now see how the principles of resolvable conflict management play out [...]
Fighting an Invisible Killer, Part 2 of 2
Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that’s rare in the general population but all too common among workers exposed to asbestos. Here are some of the things we, as safety professionals, can do about the problem.
Why Mesothelioma Is Such an Urgent Problem
First and foremost, safety professionals need to be aware of [...]
A Safety Checklist for Holiday Travel, Part 1 of 2
The holidays are about being together with loved ones. For some of your workers, that means hosting the family gathering. For others it means traveling to the homes of relatives. This week’s SafetyXChange is dedicated to the latter – the holiday travelers.
Make a Checklist
Holiday travel takes a lot of preparation. Shopping for [...]
An Overview of 2005 Workplace Fatalities
On August 10, 2006, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published a 16-page report on fatal work injuries in 2005. Here’s a quick and dirty overview.
Types of Fatal Incidents
There were 5,702 fatal work injuries in 2005. The leading types of fatal incidents:
Highway incidents: 1,428 worker deaths;
Non-highway incidents involving vehicles: [...]
