March 1, 2010
Features
Worker Attitudes Towards Hearing Protection, and How to Change Them
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” This old adage says a lot about the value of knowledge in changing behavior, and a landmark study sponsored by the UK Health and Safety Executive shows that the adage holds true in the workplace just as much as the village...
Anchors and Body Support and Connectors, Oh My!
Fall protection equipment can boggle even the most educated safety director. Do you know how to specify equipment appropriate to your employees’ tasks...
Incentives: Is Behavior the Key to an Effective Program?
One effective approach to recognizing employees is to use incentives to reinforce defined safety behaviors...
Battery Cables and Behavior Change
What do battery cables, behavior change and employee recognition have in common? More than you think...
Keeping Workplace Eye Wellness in Sight
Put eye wellness in your line of vision to create a healthier, more productive work force...
Mass Notification Systems: A Useful Tool during Pandemic Response
The recent H1N1 flu pandemic clearly demonstrates why health facility administrators must prepare their responses to large-scale public health emergencies using every tool available. There is much at stake...
Lockout/Tagout Compliance: Group Lockout and Shift Changes
Part 2 of our three-part series about lockout/tagout compliance examines the challenge of shift changes to safety...
Lighting the Workplace: A Perspective for Safety and Productivity
It seems most business owners are preoccupied with keeping the lights on these days, but maybe business owners should be looking at the lights themselves. After all, the lights just don't let us see and work, they let us work more productively and safely...
Double IAQ Advantage: Better Filtration and Reduced Total Cost
A major healthcare facility jumps at the chance to improve air quality and reduce costs...
Columns
Managing Safety: Motivational Punishment: Beaten by Carrots and Sticks
There are few endeavors in which intelligent and well-intentioned professionals more regularly fail than in the implementation of incentives and rewards for safety...
Managing Environment: Sustainability: The Water Challenge
“…Water, water, everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.” These two famous lines are from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798). They summarize, in large part, the concern for water...
Managing Workers’ Comp: Obesity's Link to Diabetes in the Workplace
Obesity puts a heavy burden on employers as well as employees...
Man's Best Friend
“A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn’t care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.” – John Grogan...
