Safety Management
Safety 2009: Activating Higher-Level Safety Culture and Performance
During an ASSE Safety 2009 session, Robert Pater, founder of SSA/MoveSmart, outlined four levels of company safety culture and offered tips to jumpstart effective, positive culture change...
Safety 2009: How Stages of Change Influence Safety Behaviors
Dianne Stober, Ph.D., explains how safety professionals can use this cognitive-behavioral safety approach to encourage positive change in employees and create a safer workplace...
Safety 2009: The Corporate Responsibility Revolution
During his keynote speech at ASSE Safety 2009, Tim Sanders, former Yahoo chief solutions officer, stressed that corporate social responsibility – which he defined in part as “do no harm, but do some good” – is a strategic component that influences a company’s success...
Managing Perceptions to Create FOCUS
Three years ago, I was asked to help an organization improve their safety performance. The organization was a maintenance group that performed heavy and...
Steps in Safety Strategy: The Gap Analysis & Implementation Plan
In previous columns, we have looked at the first four of ten actions that help leaders establish safety as a strategic objective. These steps have focused...
Employ a Laser-Like Focus To Achieve Safety Success
What's the difference between the lights in a parking lot and the light of a laser? Parking lot lights illuminate large areas, providing just enough light...
The Seven Deadly Sins of Business
Most businesses that fail do so because of their owners' "sins." ...
Occupational Safety and Health Makes Top Ten Hot Career Trends for College Graduates
As U.S. unemployment has risen to a 25-year high, a new trend study from the University of California San Diego Extension reveals some of the hottest career options for college graduates in this recession. At No. 6 on the list: occupational safety and health!...
How to Reduce Workers' Comp Costs in Recessionary Times
Amid a slumping economy, there still are opportunities for organizations to reduce workers' compensation costs and save money through savvy risk management practices. ...
Speakers' Message: Don't Get Hurt on the Job like Me
The Washington Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) is sponsoring speeches as teens prepare to take summer jobs or graduate and move into the full-time workforce....
Texas Mutual Launches Safety Program for Teen Workers
With the goal of reducing the number of workplace injuries among teen workers, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. and its partners have kicked off the One Wrong Move campaign in Lubbock, Tex....
NAOSH Week 2009: 'Safety Means Always Coming Home'
The theme of this year's North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week, held May 3-9 to help raise awareness about the importance of workplace safety, health and the environment, is "Safety Means Always Coming Home."...
Koch Pipeline Employees Set Company Safety Record
Employees of Koch Pipeline Co. have set a company safety record by working 6 million hours – 8 years – without a lost-time incident. The milestone was reached March 26. ...
Steps in Safety Strategy: Communications & Governance
In the last column, we began to look at 10 actions that help leaders establish safety as a strategic objective. The steps begin with building a foundation...
Active Agenda: Mindfulness
Thomas Edison's observation above helps to explain why some people do not recognize the Active Agenda project. The free nature of the project creates...
ASSE Remembers Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
In the aftermath of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that took 146 lives in New York City in 1911, the modern workplace safety movement began with the founding of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) later that year. To commemorate this important event, the Des Plaines, IL- based ASSE announced today that it is moving forward in planning its centennial celebration in 2011. ...
Maintain Leadership, Help Workers Survive Layoffs
As massive layoffs continue to make national headlines, people believe it’s not a matter of if, but when, their organization will be next....
Reducing Office Clutter
Research shows there is a direct correlation between productivity and clutter. Productivity and profits decline when clutter and chaos rise. Do piles...
Create a Safer Work Environment by Bridging the Language and Culture Gap
In recent years, construction, manufacturing, meat packing, hospitality and many other industries have seen a sharp rise in the number of Latino, Eastern...
Survey: Dissatisfaction With Management Top Reason Good Employees Quit
When top performers decide to jump ship, managers may want to consider a little self-reflection, a recent survey suggests. ...
Better Business Through Relationships
Performance management guru Joe Takash believes that the best way for an employer to build trust, performance and profit is to motivate employees and retain good talent....
NYCOSH Publication Questions Whether “OSHA Can Be Fixed”
In a new publication from the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), a broad range of advocates from labor, government, public health and workers’ rights organizations outline priorities for OSHA aimed at initiating new programs to eliminate workplace hazards, strictly enforce existing standards reversing policies undercutting worker safety and health instituted by the Bush administration....
Canada: IRSST Releases Machine Safety Guide
A new guide published by the Quebec Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute (IRSST) describes methods for eliminating mechanical hazards at the source and using fixed guards as a protective measure....
Study Aims to Enhance Behavioral Approach to Workplace Safety
A new study in the National Safety Council’s (NSC) Journal of Safety Research identifies key knowledge gaps and suggests ways to enhance behavior-based injury-prevention interventions and improve occupational safety and health....
UK: East Sussex Company, Director Guilty of Manslaughter
The UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging companies to carry out full risk assessments following the prosecution of a company, IC Roofing Ltd., and its owner and director, Colin Cooper, at Hove Crown Court following the death of an IC employee....
