Getting Employees to Report Near Misses
Discipline is a double edge sword—necessary to enforce safety policies but also a potential chilling effect on the reporting of dangerous conditions. Near miss reporting is an excellent example [...]
What Are The Costs of a Lack of Safety Training
WE DO NOT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF OUR EXPECTATIONS. WE FALL TO THE LEVEL OF OUR TRAINING. - Archilachus BUILDING A RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI) Safety training, like [...]
What Are The Costs of a Lack of Safety Training
WE DO NOT RISE TO THE LEVEL OF OUR EXPECTATIONS. WE FALL TO THE LEVEL OF OUR TRAINING. - Archilachus BUILDING A RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI) Safety training, like [...]
10 Reasons Trainees Don’t Listen to You
Why is it so often the case that the message of training doesn’t get through? There’s no one answer to this question; but there are at least 10 possibilities. [...]
Showing How Worker Fatigue Harms the Bottom Line
As safety coordinator, you need to be aware of the dangers of workplace fatigue and warn company management to consider the economic impact of driving workers too hard. But [...]
How to Measure Safety’s ROI
Most companies are in business to make money. Of course, safety and profitability are perfectly compatible. But because it doesn’t generate revenue, safety tends to be seen as a [...]
COVID Mandate News on Both Sides of the Border
Today (January 13, 2021), the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the OSHA's emergency temporary standard requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to ensure workers are vaccinated against the coronavirus [...]
Seven Statistics on Working in Winter
From slippery elevated work areas to white-knuckle driving in blizzard conditions, winter poses some serious challenges to workers across much of North America. Here are seven statistics related to [...]
Winter Means Training Workers on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
After over 25 years of preaching and teaching it, I’ve come to realize that safety is a culture, not just a workday activity. It is a part of our [...]
CEO on the Soapbox
The first week of 2022 offers an opportunity to stand on a soapbox and do a little bit of forecasting for the year ahead, so here goes. Between the [...]
