03/02/2021
I could tell within a 30 step walk into a workplace if it was going to be a long report or a short one by:
02/04/2021
When we started this business, my partner was very surprised to learn that fear based compliance, do it because you might get fined, is pretty much non-existent in the occupational safety world. Last time I checked there were over 8 million businesses in America and less than 1,000...
12/22/2020
Is it Legal to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccination for Employees?
Last year, I noticed some Physical Therapists at the facility I used were wearing surgical masks and some were not. So, of course, I asked. It turned out that those who were wearing the mask had opted...
11/24/2020
We’ve all heard of Civil Disobedience, a passive and visible means of making a political point. Occupational Disobedience is a slowly encroaching behavior of disregard for the safety rules and policies in their workplace. It occurs when safety rules are unequally applied, or...
11/03/2020
The process involved with implementing leading indicators as part of your safety initiatives is a little different than tracking lagging indicators.
Implementing leading indicators has a slightly different flow than lagging indicators. Overall, the steps are:
10/19/2020
When comparing the current state of COVID-19 between countries, saying this one is worse than that one, is only possible when you normalize the data with a common denominator or by using a percent. For example, location X has 1,000 cases of COVID-19, is it worse than location Y with 100...
10/12/2020
Everyone talks about incorporating leading indicators to take safety to the next level. Lagging indicators are the traditional (and easier to determine) measures, but keep you looking behind instead of ahead.
Leading indicators are activities that you perform, as an organization,...
10/07/2020
When comparing the current state of COVID-19 between countries, saying this one is worse than that one, is only possible when you normalize the data with a common denominator or by using a percent. For example, location X has 1,000 cases of COVID-19, is it worse than location Y with 100...
09/28/2020
A few weeks ago we had OSHA Safe + Sound Week, the National Safety Council has National Safety Month, Construction Safety Week, OSHA’s National Safety Stand Down, and so on, and on. Workplaces often have a safety day, or week, or month that entails a lot of training and emphasis on...
09/21/2020
Harvard Business Review author Michael D. Watkins defines Strategy as "a set of guiding principles that, when communicated and adopted in the organization, generates a desired pattern of decision making. A...
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