2006 National Safety Survey: Safety's Satisfying Journey
If our interviews with some of the respondents to this year's National Safety Survey are any indication, there's more truth than ever to the idea that...
Safety Catalyst: Overcome Repeating Problems
One seemingly insurmountable problem most companies have is reducing accident repetition. So-called "accident repeaters" have multiple injuries. They...
Safer Shiftwork Through More Effective Scheduling
So many industries utilize shiftwork schedules that nearly 15 million full-time workers in the United States work shifts outside the traditional 9-to-5...
Mapping Support for an EHS Management System
The benefits of an EHS management system must be explained to management if you want proper funding and support. But first, a roadmap for success must...
Putting Safety on Climate Control
Some companies have elaborate, expensive safety programs that achieve only slightly better-than-average results. The reason can be a great mystery, especially...
The State of Safety Education
The Occupational Safety and Health Act is 35 years old, and there is widespread concern stopping just short of panic, in some cases about the fact that...
What Safety Excellence Managers Do
by Larry L. Hansen, CSP, ARM The truth of the matter is: Senior managers care deeply about many things; most importantly, delivering results to shareholders,...
Expert: Safety Obsolete Without Effective Management Systems
Donald Jones, Dow Chemical's safety manager, during his presentation at the American Society of Safety Engineers' safety symposium discussed how leadership...
Understanding Safety's Role in Culture and Climate
For many years, we have heard people talk about the impact of organizational "culture" or "climate" on safety. All of us who have worked in more than...
The Safety Catalyst: Handling Stubborn Safety Problems
by Robert Pater Will Rogers contended, "The secret of success is simple. If you're in a hole, quit digging." This seems like common sense, but I've seen...
Guidelines for Developing a Welding and Cutting Safety Program
OSHA's safety management guidelines offer safety managers a framework for preventing hot work injuries and fatalities...
Managing Global Safety: The Power of One
Global companies face global safety risks. That's one of the lessons learned after the 1984 disaster in Bhopal, India, affected Union Carbide's worldwide...
Leadership and Communication Skills for the EHS Professional
Most EHS professionals are not trained in the so-called "soft skills" such as basic leadership, written and oral communication and listening. I can vouch...
2005 National Safety Survey: Focusing on Employees
Safety and health doesn't come without its share of headaches. Asked what was the biggest obstacle to getting his job done, one senior safety engineer...
Who Is Auditing Your Safety Auditors?
Business success for Boston-based insurance provider Liberty Mutual depends, to some extent, on effective safety audits. John Neil, the practice leader...
The Importance of Site Supervisors to Safety
I'd be willing to bet that if you ask your supervisors, especially with all the organizational changes that have been rampant throughout companies today,...
Lean Behavior-Based Safety
The business climate has drastically changed since 1984. Behavior-based safety (BBS), in general, has not! Even a proven technology with documented results...
Stepping Up to Operational Safety Excellence
By Larry L. Hansen In 1985, I dared to ask one single question that ended my 18-year career as a safety practitioner. It also, however, impacted how safety...
Online Exclusive: Successful Safety Welds Good Communication, Employee Involvement and Management Support
To a greater extent now, successful safety management calls for humanized techniques and tools to realize safety goals, even as automation becomes increasingly...
Davis-Besse: A Plan for Change or a Worst-Case Scenario?
On Feb. 16, 2002, FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co. shut down the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station (DBNPS) in Oak Harbor, Ohio, for a fairly routine...
Safe at Home?
In today's work force, employers should be happy to know that they can continue to depend on a mature and experienced pool of employees. According to...
An Effective Approach to Claims Management
Two very similar back injuries are covered by the same insurer, in similar companies, in the same state. In both cases, the companies worked hard to control...
Why Won't They Listen?
Ask any group of business managers to name the one organizational problem that frustrates them most, and which is often at the core of operational snafus,...
How Will They Know?
W. Edwards Deming believed that an organization's ability to achieve "quality excellence" hinged upon management's ability to answer one simple question,...
Nanotechnology: Now is the Time to Assess Risks
Companies are using nanotechnology (the manipulation of materials only one-billionth of a meter in size) to develop products ranging from clothing and...
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