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Safety Training Program Survey
We invite you to participate in a survey on safety training programs. This is part of our continuing series of surveys intended to determine the methods safety professionals use to provide safety training, the training resources they buy, their satisfaction with current programs and resources, and how [...]
Proposal to Add MSD Info to 300 Log
In case you missed it, OSHA wants to make employers list specific musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) information on the OSHA Form 300.
A little background. On Jan. 19, 2001, in the final days of the Clinton Administration, OSHA published a Recordkeeping rule that would have created a new column on the Form [...]
Search Firms Get Back to Hiring Mode
What a difference a year makes. After a tumultuous 2009, executive search firms have entered 2010 with renewed confidence in the executive hiring market, and they’re planning to bolster their own consulting and research teams to meet that demand.
The Job Trend Numbers
My company, ExecuNet, keeps a monthly Search Firm [...]
The RSI Hazards of Frequent Driving
February 28 is International RSI (Repetitive Strain Injuries) Awareness Day, which is held on the last day of February every year because it’s the only calendar day that does not necessarily repeat annually.
As safety professionals know, RSIs, also known as musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), affect people in all workplaces and the risks of developing MSDs are [...]
ASSE to Honor 100 Women Who Make a Difference in Safety
The American Society of Safety Engineers’(ASSE) Women in Safety Engineering (WISE) common interest group will honor 100 women who have, or are currently, making a difference through their work and dedication to protecting people, property and the environment, as part of ASSE’s 100th anniversary celebrations in 2011. This week WISE issued a [...]
Doubting One’s Safety Profession Decision
I can indeed appreciate what Corey Jones is referring to in his article of Feb/18. There are many times during the year when I believe that my safety efforts and daily reminders are never truly valued and quite misunderstood. 2009 was a particular bad year for our distribution centre in terms of [...]
Are You a Jerk?
Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University, has written a book about how people can improve or at least survive a workplace where some people leave a lot to be desired.
The title might be offensive to some, so we’ll modify it slightly, to The No ‘Jerk’ Rule: Building a Civilized [...]
Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Safety
Can a supervisor or company pour on safety too thickly and end up overwhelming, turning off or angering workers as a result? Definitely, says an Australian psychologist whose session I attended at the 2007 American Society of Safety Engineers’ conference in Orlando, Florida. Here are some of the key things I learned from the session.
How [...]
Athletes Who Paid the Ultimate Price
On February 12, 2010, a luger from the Central Asian nation of Georgia lost his life in a Winter Olympics training accident. Nodar Kumaritshavii was heading down the final turn of the Whistler Sliding Center when he lost control of his sled, flew over the wall and smashed into an unpadded [...]
What to Look for in a Safety Consultant
Much of what the average safety practitioner reads each day comes not from peers but consultants. This growing cadre of safety consultants and their prevalence in the print and electronic media isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There are many excellent consultants out there; but there are many less than excellent consultants, [...]
