Inside Safety Pro vs. Outside Safety Pro: Which is Better?
For an organization to make the most informed decisions regarding their safety program, a fully comprehensive view of the situation — the data, the safety culture, and how the organization operates — is required. To some organizations, this means turning to a trusted, internal safety professional, to leverage their proprietary knowledge of the organization’s inner […]
You CAN Continue Safety Training During a Pandemic
The world continues to be upended as we work together dealing with the waves of change from the COVID-19 pandemic, affecting how we work, how we plan, and how we fundamentally operate day in and day out. More than ever, safety has become a major point of focus for organizations as they find new ways […]
Identify Gaps in Your Safety Game
Closing out the fourth quarter, now is the time to take a macro look at the data compiled over the last year and use the findings to build out a roadmap for the new year. Naturally, this leads many organizations to turn a more critical eye toward safety and finding areas of improvement to address. […]
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 […]
What Does It Mean to Be a Professional Confined Space Rescuer?
Feature submitted from the perspective of a real Rescuer- EMT, Mark Ford, Confined Space Rescuer at Amerisafe Group. Iron workers, plumbers, electricians, sheet metal workers, operating engineers, and other crafts require years of training and apprenticeship to become skilled in one’s craft. Yet anyone can be a Rescue Worker? The difficulty in this situation is […]
First Aid & CPR Training Certification
Be Prepared: CPR Training Certifications A 41-year-old worker at a manufacturer of heating and air-conditioning systems suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at work. After three shocks and CPR he was revived within 4 minutes. Fortunately, his company had AEDs (automated external defibrillators) and trained responders. By the time EMS (emergency medical services) personnel arrived, he […]
Occupational Health Safety – Sun Exposure
Sun Exposure Workplace Safety: Are You at Risk? Workers who spend all day outside are exposed to high levels of ultraviolet radiation, even when it is cloudy. Exposure from the ultraviolet radiation from the sun can damage skin and potentially cause skin cancer, which is the most common type of cancer. In a 2018 poll […]
PEC Basic Safety Orientation vs OSHA 10-Hour Safety Course
Amerisafe offers both PEC Basic Orientation (a.k.a., “Safeland”) and the OSHA 10-hour safety courses. Recently there have been some questions regarding which is “better” than the other. The answer is “it depends” upon why the training is needed and which training could be more useful to a company. Prepared below is the following summary of the advantages and […]