Hot Safety Topics
Safety Products
Sponsored by Bongarde
User Poll
Loading ...
SafetyXChange on Twitter
New blog post: The Ontario Workplace Violence Law http://www.safetyxchange.org/compliance-risk-management/ontario-workplace-violence-lawSafetyXChange Feedback
Thoughts? Let us Know
June, 2008
A 5-Point Strategy
Recruiters are notorious for not returning phone calls, rarely acknowledging receipt of a resume, and generally speaking, not even knowing that a job candidate exists. And that is precisely why you should reach out to them, even when and especially when you’re not looking for a job.
Why Recruiters Play Hard to Get
Recruiters are an excellent [...]
Overcoming 7 Common Problems of Safety Meetings, Part 2 of 2
There is probably no such thing as a bad safety meeting. Any time people get together to talk about how to work safely, something good has to come out of it. But some safety meetings are certainly better than others. Last week, we covered the 12 rules of successful safety meetings. Today, here’s a brief [...]
Roastin’ and Toastin’: A Heat Stress Demo
If you’re in the Northeast like me, you’ve been broiling for the past few days. And so have your workers. Here’s a neat little heat stress demonstration that I came up with when I was working for PSEG as a Safety Engineer that you might want to try.
The Ingredients
This is what you’ll need to conduct [...]
How to Keep Golf Carts on a Safe Course
With the 2008 U.S. Open just days away, I’d like to reprise an article I wrote two years ago on the issue of golf cart safety. So strap in and let’s head to the first tee.
Golf Carts Aren’t Just for Golfers
I don’t play golf. Nor, I suspect, do a lot of you. It doesn’t matter. [...]
Part 4 of 4, The Legal Effect of Voluntary Standards
We’ve seen that supposedly voluntary standards published by organizations such as ANSI and CSA might become mandatory, either directly by incorporation into a regulation or indirectly as a benchmark used to interpret a regulation. This final installment will attempt to answer the obvious question this raises in the minds of safety directors: What do I [...]
Overcoming the Lack of a Degree
Fair or unfair, in today’s corporate world a degree from a four-year school is par for the course. Of course, the job market includes many successful men and women who have accomplished much without a degree. But while it isn’t necessarily an obstacle to success on the job, the lack of a degree can pose [...]
12 Rules of Successful Safety Meetings, Part 1 of 2
You’ve prepared and tested your PowerPoint presentation, arranged for demonstrations and gathered visual aids and props. Your workers know what the topic of discussion will be. You’ve come to accept your pre-talk jitters and recognize them as normal. All in all, you’re feeling pretty well prepared for the weekly safety talk. Now you have to [...]
Three Assumptions Not to Make
All of us have an interest in getting injured employees back to work as soon as possible. Although, physically, employees must heal at their own rate, we as safety professionals are in a position to speed up the return to work process. But we often miss our chance to do so. More often than not, [...]
Hurricane Preparedness is in Your Hands
This week marks the official beginning of hurricane season, a period that experts are predicting will see well-above-average storm activity. Hurricanes can cause substantial property damage, not to mention the injuries and loss of life that accompany the huge storms. This devastation can be caused by high winds, tornadoes, storms surges and inland flooding. There [...]
Part 3 of 4, The Legal Effect of Voluntary Standards
ANSI standards are voluntary. But as I explained in the previous installment, an ANSI standard can become mandatory through a process known as incorporation by reference. In essence, the ANSI standard becomes a part of the OSHA rule. Now I’ll explain how an ANSI standard can have the effect of law even if it’s not [...]
