The Importance of Safety Committees in Your Organization
People take a stronger interest in decisions when they have a say or vote in the outcome. This is true for simple choices like daily lunch orders, colors of uniforms, or what to get a boss during the holidays. It’s also true in situations with greater consequences. This is why employers work so hard to […]
Safety Meetings: Why Management Should Show Up
It’s not easy being a manager. A schedule full of pressing responsibilities and duties that are difficult to communicate to other employees but that are necessary to ensure the business keeps running smoothly day in and day out. A macro focus trained on every aspect of a company or department at once to ensure nothing […]
3 Winter Workplace Safety Tips
Winter brings along more than shorter days, snowy landscapes, and dropping temperatures. Wintery weather creates additional hazards and challenges that make work more difficult and dangerous. Ensure your safety culture extends year-round – snow or shine. Don’t wait until the freezing temperatures set in to begin preparing. It’s important to establish and share winter weather […]
Every All-Star has a Coach: Build Safety Pros with Expert Training
Everyone knows of Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, and other great athletes. But can you name their coaches? Good coaching is what separates the average athlete from your legends. Michael Jordan didn’t attend one basketball camp and go on to be the greatest basketball player of all time. Michael Jordan, in this […]
Overcoming the Struggle to Hire and Retain Younger Talent
It’s no secret that hiring is hard for many organizations right now. Continued company success relies on bringing on new, top talent to fill open roles. But pressure is mounting as businesses continue to struggle for ways to attract and retain younger recruits. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet or magic word that makes a […]
Benefits of Proactive Safety Education and Where to Begin
Safety education helps create a culture of safety within an organization where employees identify and correct risks and hazards before they can cause an injury or worse. Yet many employers wait for traumatic incidents to inform their training needs and reveal safety gaps that need to be addressed. This method for training is far from […]
Supervisors: The Backbone of Your Safety Program
Quality front-line supervisors are the key to drive safety success in organizations. They are the employees most familiar with how teams operate, and they act as the closest level of management on the ground with workers. This gives supervisors the unique ability to act as a bridge between upper and lower levels of an organization. […]
Fire Safety at Home is as Important as at Work
Fire safety plans are critical for safety in the workplace. These plans are more than just good safety procedures — they are required as part of state and local fire codes. This is why every workplace needs a fire safety plan and should be performing periodic drills. These requirements mean most workers quickly become familiar […]
Top 6 Spooky Job Sites From Around the Country
There are some fear-inducing incidents that occur on job sites that fall outside of near-misses, injuries, and accidents. They drift into the realm of the frightful and unexplained to send a suspenseful chill down the spine of readers. And we’ve decided to celebrate the spooky season by rounding up the most popular of these supernatural […]
Do’s and Don’ts of Air Monitors Every Worker Should Know
A key element for keeping workers safe on the job is limiting exposure to harmful chemicals and hazardous materials. Most associate these exposures with liquids and harmful solid materials but the concern is just as valid for the substances in the air around a site. Which is why air monitoring plays such an important role […]
Risk Assessment, Analysis, and Management: What’s the Difference?
Language has surprising overlaps between words. Which is why effective communication focuses just as much on how a message is said versus what is actually said in the message. This is important in safety when determining if a bright sign with images will warn workers about a hazard more clearly than a morning speech or […]
Are Your Supervisors Seeing Hazards? Studies Suggest They’re Not
Supervisors are key employees for organizations. They have the greatest insight on the ground-level, day-to-day operations. They are influential team members and have a greater responsibility for safe working practices on-site. They harness their insights and responsibilities to brief the other employees on safety hazards and ensure risks are mitigated. But supervisors are not infallible. […]
