06/27/2021
Suppose you are a new Safety Manager and there has been at least a six month gap between your hire date and the last Safety Manager's employment, that no one will talk about. As you do your first day on the job walk-through, you see evidence of long-term neglect of standard health...
06/23/2021
Who Doesn't Love Change?
Actually, I don't know anyone who would say that they love change. But most of us recognize it as a necessary part of growth, both personally and professionally. In early 2020 many of us suddenly found ourselves both working and living within the same...
06/15/2021
The National Safety Council says there were 4,493 "preventable" workplace in 2018. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the number of occupational fatalities were up by 2% in that year for a total of 5,250 dead people who went to work with plans for the weekend, vacations, dancing at their...
06/08/2021
Seldom has there been an economic and social disruption that has swept the entire world creating anxiety, fear, and depression. After a year of isolation at home with these feelings it is small wonder that the transition back to the workplace is harder to implement than sending the workers out...
05/31/2021
When you use leading indicators to assess the health of your Safety Culture you stop reacting to, and start preventing, accidents. Our blog this week will walk you through how easy it is to move from reaction to prevention with Simple Safety Coach (SSC).
A Day...
05/02/2021
On June 11, 2018 an employee of Konkol Construction, framing contractors, fell 14 feet from the top-plate (the upper horizontal framing piece of a stud wall) to the concrete floor below when the roof trusses collapsed. The date of his death, 4 days later, is described as "(APPROXIMATE)"...
04/19/2021
The 2015 National Safety Survey, conducted by the magazine Environmental Health and Safety, showed that more than 80% of companies in the survey track near misses as a metric of their safety culture. It is very important to identify near misses and to prevent a recurrence with more...
04/07/2021
Our Blog today takes you behind the scene to hear how a retired Safety and Health Officer evaluates the effectiveness your employee’s training. It’s a bit diabolical.
What OSHA Considers Effective Employee Training
Do you remember getting...
03/25/2021
Earlier this week I was reading an article in the Forbes Magazine on "Better Decision – Making in Times of Change" by David Michels. Mr. Michels writes articles about Leadership Strategy, he states "I write about helping businesses achieve their full potential." This is a core...
03/19/2021
In many parts of the country Spring is almost here and most of the snow is gone and we are getting the first look at our lawns since last fall and… it isn't pretty. There are small patches of dead areas that were hidden by the grass around them. I had my roof replaced just...
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