NSC 2011: Storytelling, Collaboration and Safety from the Heart
According to National Safety Council (NSC) Congress and Expo keynote speaker Peter Sheahan, the key to making significant behavior changes in safety can be found not necessarily in overcoming our challenges, but in looking beyond our past successes...
Managing Safety: Three Steps to Build Character in Safety
Every wrong choice is preceded by a series of unwise choices.” – Andy Stanley, from his book, The Best Question Ever ...
Improving EHS Program Performance with Safety Assessments
Without a clear method for identifying hazards and appropriately mitigating risk, improving employee safety and applying safety automation equipment where needed on the factory floor can be a blurry challenge....
Now Is a Good Time to be in EHS, Demand High for Safety Professionals
A NIOSH-commissioned survey has found that employers plan to hire 25,000 EHS professionals over the next 5 years, but only 12,000 students are expected to graduate from academic programs related to occupational safety and health. Some of the positions are expected to be filled by employees who don’t have EHS training...
Managing Safety: Safety Measurement: The Dysfunctional Big Picture
Far too often, organizations known for excellent safety performance are surprised by significant events occurring at their sites that result in major property damage, or worse, death. If you are surprised by results, positive or negative, you are not paying attention to the indicators....
Whatever It Takes
You can’t safely carry on a phone conversation while driving. No, really, you can’t. ...
Deepwater Horizon: Production Rewarded, Safety Ignored
The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team concludes BP, Transocean and Halliburton violated federal safety regulations and compensated employees based on how quickly – not how safely – they could bring in a well....
Maintaining the Integrity of a Workplace Safety Committee
Encouraging worker involvement in company safety committees sometimes can be a challenge. Even so, to create a workplace that fosters employee engagement, morale and safety, workers must have a voice...
CSB Investigation on Three Accidents at DuPont Belle, W.Va., Plant Calls for Tightened Safeguards for Highly Toxic Gas Handling
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) found the lack of safe equipment design, ineffective mechanical integrity programs and a failure to investigate near misses contributed to a series of three accidents that occurred over a 33-hour period on Jan. 22 and 23, 2010, at the DuPont Corp.’s Belle, W.Va., chemical manufacturing plant. The final release – of deadly phosgene gas, which was used as a chemical weapon in World War I – resulted in the death of a worker...
Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team Concludes BP, Transocean and Halliburton Violated Safety Regulations
The federal investigative team reviewing the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers, injured 16 and resulted in a catastrophic oil spill that lasted 87 days spilling millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has laid most of the blame for the tragedy on BP, but the news isn’t good for Transocean or Halliburton, either....
Selling Safety
Making the business case for implementing a behavior-based safety program...
Enthusiasm for Occupational Health and Safety: When It’s a Benefit and When It’s Not
Offer employees a helping hand as they navigate complex tasks by ensuring they are motivated, prepared and practiced...
Is Your Company Ready for Irene?
Business owners and commercial property managers are scrambling to take last-minute action that might help minimize the damage and protect their livelihoods as Hurricane Irene approaches the North Carolina coast...
Researchers Recommend Companies Include Good EHS Performance In Externally Reported Metrics
New research of the top 50 manufacturing firms listed on IndustryWeek’s Top 500 list from 2009 suggests that while reporting about sustainability and corporate responsibility is increasing, few companies utilize their EHS results as part of these externally reported metrics...
Best Practices for Monitoring Workers’ Social Media Activities – Or Not
According to a business ethics expert, monitoring workers’ social media practices can protect a company’s reputation and help screen new hires. Unfortunately, it also can foster feelings of distrust among workers and even damage productivity...
The Safety Professional’s Guide to Risk and Crisis Communication
Safety professionals who apply principles of risk communication can more effectively express their safety training and messages to the work force. In an exclusive interview with EHS Today, Pamela (Ferrante) Walaski, CSP, CHMM, explains what safety professionals need to know about risk and crisis communications...
From Casual to Committed: How Alignment and Engagement Can Create Positive Accountability
“If your employees don’t know where you’re going, almost any road will get them there.” These are words that send chills through the hearts of leaders everywhere...
Managing Safety: Establishing a Sustainable Safety Culture
Organizations in every industry eventually reach an important realization: Safety excellence is equivalent to business excellence...
Did DuPont Prioritize Cost Over Safety at Belle, W.Va., Facilities? Chemical Safety Board Investigation Indicates It Did
Despite having a reputation for safety, the three serious incidents that occurred in a 33-hour period at DuPont Corp.’s chemical plant in Belle, W.Va., on Jan. 22-23, 2010, were the result of a series of preventable safety deficiencies, according to the draft report from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), and some of them were related to the cost of alternative equipment that would have prevented the incidents...
A Study of Safety Intervention: The Causes and Consequences of Employees’ Silence
When you read incident reports and news coverage of highly public “accidents,” you often find references to a bystander who, somewhere along the line, saw that something was wrong but said nothing. In retrospect, that person’s decision not to speak up can seem heartless, weak or even immoral...
How to Submit a Standout America’s Safest Companies Application
EHS Today Senior Editor Laura Walter offers tips for submitting a strong America’s Safest Companies application...
Safety 2011: Safety Is a CEO Issue
While using the fallout from the BP oil spill disaster as an example, Thomas Krause, Ph.D., told safety professionals at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Safety 2011 conference that they are responsible for communicating safety to senior leadership – leadership that, in some cases, exhibits “a profound failure” of understanding safety within their organizations...
Safety 2011: What Motivates Employees?
Several times during the opening session of Safety 2011 in Chicago, author Daniel Pink noted that according to the physics of behavior, if we reward behavior, we typically get back more of that behavior. Conversely, we punish the behaviors we don’t want, and therefore should get less of that behavior...
Risk Assessment in the Machine Safeguarding Process
Designers and users of powered equipment and machine tools historically have sought the best methods and controls for preventing injuries associated with use of their equipment...
Managing Risk for Unlikely but Catastrophic Events
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programs may help businesses prepare for and respond to incidents that might not have a high likelihood of occurring but are capable of yielding catastrophic results...
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