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Can You Make Your Employees Get a Flu Shot?
Short answer: Yes, as long as you can show that the vaccination is necessary for health and safety and that your vaccination policy doesn’t:
Violate the affected workers’ contract or collective bargaining agreement;
Discriminate against workers on the basis of religion or disability; or
Violate OSHA whistleblower protection laws.
General Rule: Mandatory Vaccination OK
In [...]
How to Engage Those Working in Remote Sites
By Catherine Jones
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 [...]
Vesna Vulovic: Surviving the Unsurvivable
On Jan. 26, 1972, a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a DC-9 feet over Czechoslovakia. There were 29 passengers and crew members aboard. Miraculously, one of them survived. Flight attendant Vesna Vulovic. One month after her body was pulled from the wreckage, Ms. Vulovic woke from her coma. The fall from 30,000 feet broke her skull [...]
The Halifax Explosion
On December 6, 1917, at 7.30 a.m., the French ship Mont-Blanc left her anchorage in Halifax, Nova Scotia, outside the mouth of the harbor to join a convoy escorted by heavy warships that was gathering in Bedford Basin. It was during World War I and Mont-Blanc was bound for Europe loaded with 2,300 tons of [...]
Phrases that Irk Safety Trainers
My pet peeve is the phrase “It’s never happened here.” We run loaders with split rims and I have researched and have read articles where the split rims have blown apart while being inflated. We train out operators to stand to the side and use an air hose extension while inflating a tire.
I have fought [...]
Wilhelm Röntgen
It’s a technology that we all rely on but take for granted. It’s the technology used to treat our workers after they hurt a limb, back, neck, hand or foot. It’s the technology used to protect us at airports, courthouses and other public buildings. It’s even the technology Superman used to protect Truth, Justice and [...]
Looking for International Driving Material
I received the following email from a SafetyXChange member the other day. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Catherine,
I work for World Airways and I have been tasked to set up a driving safety course for our employees that work around the world. We have had several accidents in the past year when our employees use [...]
Senegal Ferry, the MV Joola, Capsizes
After a natural disaster or other tragedy, much emphasis is placed on providing emotional support to the families of the victims. But it’s sometimes forgotten that these events are also traumatic for those who volunteer to help their community respond to and recover from tragedy. This was a lesson learned after the sinking of the [...]
Howard Florey: The Man Who Brought Penicillin to the Masses
Howard Walter Florey was born on Sept. 24, 1898 in Australia. His father, Joseph, had left England to seek out a warmer climate for his tuberculosis-stricken wife. Unfortunately, she died of the disease and Joseph remarried. Howard was the couple’s third and final child.
Perhaps influenced by the death of his father’s first wife, Howard studied [...]
