ASSE Comments on 2009 Fatal Workplace Injuries, Stresses the Business Sense of Safety
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) offered condolences to the families of the 4,340 people who lost their lives last year due to on-the-job injuries, according to statistics http://ehstoday.com/safety/news/fatal-injuries-declined-8545/ just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, yet noted that there still is much more to do in the arena of workplace safety....
New Study Reinforces Importance of ‘People Behind the Product’
Companies that invest in people development activities to drive customer service, including sales training and employee recognition and rewards, may perform better than firms focusing solely on brand development, marketing and advertising, suggests a new study published by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement...
Sustainability: Keeping Safety from Backsliding
The only thing more difficult than improving safety is making the improvements sustainable...
Manager’s Role in Employee Engagement More Important than Ever
When companies take proactive steps to help managers recognize employees, they are more likely to reap rewards in the form of better employee productivity, improved customer service, revenue growth and return on working capital, according to a new executive briefing released by Madison Performance Group. The paper offers specific strategies companies can use to support a front line manager's role in enterprise wide engagement efforts...
Distracted Driving Remains Serious Highway Safety Challenge
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) is taking a stand against distracted driving, calling it “an emerging problem but a significant highway safety issue.”...
Off-the-Job Safety: Preventing Problems at Your Fourth of July Backyard Barbecue
Barbecuing is one of America’s favorite pastimes, especially during Fourth of July weekend. However, it’s hard to believe that these festivities can cause food poisoning, lead to cancer and start home fires...
Workplace Violence to Big Rigs – Celebrating 20 Years of Studying Workplace Hazards
To study the air that workers in auto repair shops breathe, analysts with the SHARP Program, the research group at the Department of Labor & Industries, bought a hunting vest and stuffed it with measuring devices, including several filters and three different air pumps...
EU-OSHA: Safety and Health Spending is an Investment, Not a Cost
In conjunction with the release of the agency’s 2009 annual report, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) Director Jukka Takala stressed that “spending on workplace health and safety should be seen as an investment and not a cost.”...
ASSE 2010: Stop Chasing Ghosts in Accident and Fatality Prevention
Larry Wilson of SafeStart had a message for hundreds of attendees at ASSE Safety 2010: Stop chasing the erroneous belief that other aspects of the EHS program must be addressed before turning to the behavioral side of safety. Instead, he explained, we should all take a hard look at our behavior now and consider how it affects our personal safety, both on and off the job, in order to prevent accidents and fatalities...
ASSE 2010: Integrating EHS into the Business
David Steinbacher, MPH, CSP, of ZymoGenetics Inc., provided a strategic overview of EHS planning during a session at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Safety 2010 conference and expo in Baltimore...
ASSE 2010: Management Strategies to Survive the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath
In the June 15 opening session of ASSE Safety 2010, Geoffrey Colvin, senior editor for Fortune magazine, gave attendees an overview of what business leaders can do to respond to the financial crisis and come out stronger on the other side – by better understanding risk, creating new solutions to new problems, upgrading employees and more...
ASSE 2010: Author Andrew Winston Wants Companies to Turn Green into Gold
Green is “a powerful trend shaping business, the way we eat and the way we live our lives,” Andrew Winston, author of the book “The Green Recovery” and co-author of the best-selling book “Green-to-Gold,” told a standing room-only audience during the opening keynote session of the professional development conference of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) in Baltimore. Wilson is the director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. He also has helped companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value and build stronger relationships with employees, customers and other stakeholders. His clients include Bank of America, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA...
National Safety Month: What Can You Do to Protect Your Employees?
June is National Safety Month – the perfect time to think about ways you can best protect your employees and keep them safe...
Michaels Identifies Oil Spill Cleanup Safety Concerns, BP Response Deficiencies
In a May 25 memo to Admiral Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander for the Gulf Coast oil spill, OSHA administrator David Michaels expressed concern “over significant deficiencies in BP’s oil spill response operations related to worker safety” and outlined problem areas ranging from inadequate site control practices to heat stress risks and more...
The 50 Most Influential EHS Leaders
Love them or despise them, these are the 50+ people we feel have the most influence on EHS...
Why We Need to Hang Up On Our Distracted Driving Addiction
Whether your fingers are safely on the wheel or tapping out a text message, you put yourself and others at risk when you use a cell phone while driving...
Workplace Safety is the Leading Edge of a Culture of Accountability
New research makes a compelling argument for the value of safety, indicating that once accountability for safety is reached, companies can leverage that learning to improve quality, production, cost control and customer service...
Variation and Its Impact on Safety Management
There is variation in people and the things we do at work, home and play. It is all around us, which probably is why we take it for granted...
Managing Safety: Old Dogs and New Tricks: Keep BBS from Rolling Over and Playing Dead
Behavior-based safety is past its prime. For many processes, the glory days happened in the first year or two and, since then, it has been an uphill battle to keep it going...
Younger Drivers May Benefit From Training that Targets Hazard Anticipation
A new study finds that young drivers can be trained to recognize and avoid hazardous situations when driving, thereby reducing their risk of accidents...
Are Your Employees Getting Ready to Bolt?
The latest news reports have given us a glimmer of hope that the economy finally may be recovering. While that's a welcome sign for most organizations, it may not be good news for all...
May 2-8 is NAOSH Week
This year’s annual North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week, “Mission NAOSH 2010: Safe Workplaces,” takes place May 2-8 to raise awareness about occupational safety, health and the environment. NAOSH Week kicked off with events May 2 and 3 in Washington, D.C., and Canada...
Managing Safety: Establishing a Culture of Safety Excellence: Strategies Worth Repeating
Relying on our culture for safety is a strategy as old as the first tribes in existence....
Cultivating a Self-Motivated Workforce: The Choice, Community and Competence of an Injury-Free Culture
“The best kind of pride is that which compels people to do their very best work, even if no one is watching.”...
OSHA Agenda Includes Injury and Illness Prevention Program
In addition to familiar topics such as cranes and derricks, diacetyl, beryllium and crystalline silica, OSHA’s spring 2010 regulatory agenda contains some new, high-priority items – an Injury and Illness Prevention Program standard and a move to modernize the agency’s injury and illness reporting systems...
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