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10 Personal Safety Tips for College Students
The NIAAA statistics about college students and alcohol are scary, particularly for parents sending their child off to the first year at college. For many young people, this is the first time they’ve been solely responsible for their safety and security. And alcohol is not the only danger out there. Did you know that 80% [...]
6 Safety Committee Best Practices
Over the years, I have written extensively about what we in Canada call Joint Health and Safety Committees. One of the things I do is interview leaders of successful committees and gather up their best practices. I have written a book summarizing my findings. Here’s a small taste of some of the best practices I [...]
Tips for Building a Culture of Safety
A culture of safety is not just a new set of rules; it is a new philosophy of preventing injury in the workplace. In a true safety culture, safe behavior is not something the boss makes you do; it is a vital part of your job. An unsafe worker is an uneducated [...]
4 Ways to Cut Yourself Some Slack in a Hectic Schedule
When people are faced with too much month and too little pay, they are often forced to draw up and follow a budget. Just as money can be saved that way, it’s also possible to budget your time more wisely and reduce stress.
The following time-saving tips, applying to activities both on and [...]
How to Maximize Your Time
Busy people often wish for more hours in the day, but leadership consultant Joelle Jay, Ph.D, says, “When you maximize your time, you actually do have more hours in the day.”
Jay, president of Pillar Consulting, says the key to maximizing time is following these five shortcuts:
1. Modeling: In many industries, modeling [...]
Beating the Post-Vacation Blues
Although post-vacation blues is not officially recognized by the American Psychological Association, it is a condition that seems to affect many of us. Why? When we’re on vacation – whether we travel or not – we escape our daily routines. We indulge ourselves and adapt a more a flexible lifestyle. Returning to the reality of [...]
True Experiences That Trainers Would Like to Forget
Trashing the Boss
I was asked to provide safety training to the supervisor staff at a commuter rail construction job site with the safety manager. I suggested to my boss that we talk about keeping the various work areas free of debris. During the training, I showed several digital snapshots taken around the various work areas [...]
Towards a Less Cavil-ier Training Style
I recently attended a one-day seminar on how to reinforce desired behavior by accentuating the positive. In the seminar, we were taught how to avoid caviling. I didn’t know what “caviling” meant. So during our first break I asked around and found out it’s a fancy word for nit-picking. I had no idea I’d been [...]
