What is a Culture of Safe Production™?
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Supervisors are Your Organization’s MVE: Most Valued Employees
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Is Budgeting for Injuries a Smart Move?
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Safety Leadership Training — is it Worth the Investment?
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What Is Safety Leadership
As a term, it is almost deceptively simple, but safety leadership as a concept is greater than the sum of its parts. At the core, the idea of safety leadership is straightforward enough — a reliable collective of motivated individuals who continuously promote and drive employees to meet and exceed collective organizational safety goals. Taking […]
Guidelines for Developing Safety Leaders
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Should You Reward Your Employees for Following Safety Guidelines at Work?
Deciding whether to incentivize safety in the workplace can be tough, especially if you’ve been struggling with employee injuries and accidents. However, the Environment, Health, and Safety organization, or EHS, has some handy tips that can help you decide on the best course of action for your place of business. The Trouble with Existing Incentives […]
Ongoing Risk Assessments Are the Only Way to Ensure the Longevity of Your Safety Culture
Risk assessments are foundational processes found in every successful safety culture. They identify hazards, provide safe solutions, and improve productivity organization-wide. Unfortunately, safety cultures are not mechanized – they require a healthy amount of ongoing maintenance to remain legitimate and effective. Safety cultures can quickly become investment dumps for companies that do not take the […]
Safety Management Programs Should Be Audited Yearly
Safety audits are designed to collect key information regarding the effectiveness of a company’s safety management programs. These audits are crucial to ensuring compliance with safety legislation – like OSHA regulations, for example. However, these audits serve far more important purposes; like monitoring the health of a company’s workforce, identifying weaknesses in safety programs, guiding […]
Continuous Improvement Is Crucial for Safety Program Success
Work is demanding. In the high-risk industries we specialize in, that work can demand more than just an employee’s effort – it can oftentimes demand their bodies, as well. Back pain, collision injuries, falls, lung poisoning, chemical exposures, burns, bruises, and blemishes alike; employees place their bodies under tremendous tension with their lives at risk […]
Training Employees Is Crucial When Implementing an Employee Safety Program
Let’s imagine you were given an unknown, brand-new tool to construct a wooden wall with. Without instructions, you could try to figure out how to use this new tool through a process of trial-and-error. You might even determine the correct way to use the tool eventually, but not after making many mistakes along the way. […]
How to Create a Successful Employee Safety Program
Creating a successful employee safety program within your own organization is a daunting task. You need to create a real program that actually keeps your employees safe… while simultaneously maintaining a tight budget. Which, oftentimes feels like an impossibility, leading to stalls in program implementation due to uncertainty. The day to create a safety program […]
