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Stage a Phony Death to Prevent a Real One
Talking to your workers about safety isn’t always enough to prevent illness and injury. You must also ensure that workers talk to each other when they’re on the job. After all, if workers don’t look out for their co-workers, who will? Unfortunately, many companies have a hard time convincing their workers that the need to [...]
The Value of a Daily Safety Sweep
Most safety professionals know that they are far more effective when they can be “out on the floor” a “good percentage of the time” (whatever that is). For me, I have found that I can get more bang out of my buck (and the company’s) by being sure to also be out there during the [...]
Quieting Your Trainees’ Inner Voices
While vacationing with my family in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, I decided to try something new: hang-gliding. I admit that as a Safety Coordinator, I worried about the impression I would make if I returned to work broken and bandaged. But I decided to go for it. And I’m glad I did! In [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is Safety Really a Thankless Job?
The job of safety supervisor can be a frustrating one, don’t you think? Every day we try to convince our workers to take precautions like using respiratory protection when mixing cement. If you’re in construction, I’m guessing you know what I mean. You try every argument in the book – citing rules, evoking common sense [...]
Safety and the Undercover Boss
Undercover Boss first aired right after the Super Bowl. Even though I have a great disdain for ‘reality’ shows, I wanted to see how careful these CEOs would be about putting their company in a good light, especially with regard to Safety & Environmental. The Waste Management episode was good [...]
