Turning employee health and safety record keeping to your advantage
Employers can perceive mandatory record keeping as either a burden or an opportunity.
ISO: Global occupational health and safety standard on horizon
Last week the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO) approved the establishment of Project Committee (PC 283). The committee ultimately will produce a specification standard that will be used by third parties to certify an organization’s Occupational Health & Safety Management System. It is expected that the final standard will be complete sometime in 2016.
The past, present and future of injury and illness prevention programs
The past
Before history repeats, let’s apply safety lessons
UL Workplace Health and Safety’s evolution of safety timeline gives us a unique perspective into how catastrophic events and work-related deaths and injuries can be prevented when we make the effort to glean lessons from the past.
NIOSH Director John Howard to present UL webinar on infectious disease, prevention and control
A recent blog post by my colleague Jonathan Jacobi about the appropriate use of humor in workplace safety training has me thinking about the application of humor in other situations, such as personal health crises, natural disasters and global pandemics.
Catch phrases and hypocrisy – bad for workplace health and safety
In a recent post, I discussed reasons why safety should be everyone’s responsibility. Responses to my post suggest this assertion has fallen out of favor in some circles. Catch phrases and hypocritical actions may be to blame.
Make culture your foreign policy for improved workplace health and safety results
Environment, health and safety (EHS) management is a complex undertaking, especially when multiple sites and jurisdictions are involved.
What happened to belief that safety is “everyone’s responsibility?”
News has been steadily surfacing about preventable incidents that were not prevented.
West, TX: rushing to conclusions doesn’t help
Following the disaster in West, TX many in the media have focused on the failures of the site owner and of various government agencies. Some news reports have ridiculed the facility for failing to “imagine” a proper worst-case scenario or “not checking the box” to indicate a flammable or explosive material on-site. One outlet went […]
Is your employee safety incentive program as obsolete as the 8-track?
You may or may not be old enough to remember, but 8-track tapes were a technological wonder back in the ‘70s, and anyone who was cool had one. At the time, it was hard to imagine this state-of-the-art audio technology could ever be replaced or improved upon.