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5 Ways to Help Workers Cope With Winter Blues
Cold, gloomy weather. Holiday bills arriving in the mail. New Year’s resolutions that are starting to fray. These are just some of the factors cited by mental health associations in pronouncing January 19 the most depressing day of the year.
The Canadian Mental Health Association offers 5 simple ways that employers can help their workers counter [...]
How to Engage Those Working in Remote Sites
A few weeks ago, I received the following question from a SafetyXChange member, who, due to the sensitive issue, wishes to remain anonymous.
“I have found workers to be non-compliant when it comes to working in remote sites. Managers are never around to find out how poorly, and displaced workers often miss out on mentoring to [...]
The Ten Most Important Safety Lessons I Know
Safety is simple, isn’t it? No one wants someone else to get hurt. Everyone should go home at the end of the day the same way they came in. Why isn’t it that simple?
According to Albert Einstein, “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic [...]
Blips on the 2012 Work Comp Radar
In 2010, Steve Klingel, NCCI President & CEO, described the state of the workers’ compensation industry as “precarious,” while adding that the industry faces “a number of difficulties that will confront market stakeholders in the weeks and months to come.”
Here are a few areas that should be given attention as we head into the New [...]
It’s Time to Renew Our Commitment to Safety
With the holiday season well behind us, I took some time recently to reflect on the year that’s passed, appreciating especially the times spent with family and friends.
But as I was thinking about how much I enjoyed the holidays, I also thought about my friends and colleagues not so fortunate. Unfortunately, we all know someone [...]
2011 Word of the Year
It’s time once again to look at what wordsmiths have chosen as the word that defines the events of 2011.
Merriam-Webster: “Pragmatic.” The adjective that means practical and logical was looked up so often on Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary that the publisher’s choice for word of the year was a “pragmatic” one.
Global Language Monitor: GLM tracks words [...]
2011 Articles Index
How to sum up 2011? Well, it wasn’t as dramatic as, say, 2009, but it did have some interesting events that could be considered aftershocks from that year, such as the Occupy movement, Arab Spring and the Eurozone debt crisis. Osama Bin Laden was caught and killed, as was Muammar Gaddafi, and three governments were [...]
Why You Should Hydrate Your Christmas Trees
Sure, you know about keeping hydrated during the summer months while you exercise and work outdoors but did you know that you need to keep your Christmas trees hydrated also?
NIST, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, has done extensive work on this subject. Check out their videos (which you can download) at http://www.fire.nist.gov/tree_fire.htm or [...]
