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February, 2007
What Are Your Legal Obligations Part 3 of 4
In the first two parts of this series, we pieced together the outlines of the employer’s legal obligation to manage the risk of avian influenza. We divided these obligations into two groups: The first, which we analyzed last week, is to educate workers and ensure that they practice proper hygiene; the second is based not [...]
Management Hardiness as a Cure for Workplace Stress, Part 2 of 2
Last week, we looked at the debilitating effects of workplace stress and ended by suggesting a cure: hardiness. Amazingly, hardiness can be learned. But it is not a flavor of the month. It requires habituation and personal change. Let’s take a look at why hardiness is so salubrious not just to [...]
Why Home Is Not Always a Safe Haven
Think of the one place where you feel safe, a place you consider your refuge. For most people that safe haven is home. For example, in a recent National Safety Council survey, 93 percent of respondents said they felt at least as safe if not safer at home than they do at [...]
What Does the Law Require You to Do Part 2 of 4
The fact that employers have a duty to protect workers (and others) against avian influenza and other infectious diseases that pose a foreseeable risk in the workplace is beyond dispute. What’s less clear is what employers have to do to meet that duty. Let’s examine that question now. There’s also a [...]
How to Deal with the Unhappy Prior Employer
Dear SafetyXChange Members:
When we leave a job, we don’t always depart on the best of terms. Unfortunately, those relationships from the old company still matter even after we’ve moved on to the next opportunity. Like it or not, the former boss is a part of our employment record. He or she [...]
Training and Leadership from the Hawk’s Eye View
Last week, we invited you to submit your questions to international speaker, trainer, consultant and author Richard Hawk. Richard is not only an experienced safety professional who has been in the field for more than 20 years but, so he claims, an accomplished guitarist, singer and songwriter. Richard will now make [...]
