10/27/2020
ROSI is Return on Safety Investment. Often even experienced Safety Managers don’t have a strong background in business or budgets. This can be a major handicap when trying to get needed safety equipment or changes to employee exposure conditions.
The initial and...
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...
09/15/2020
As employees return to work and other social activities their chances of being exposed to someone with the virus increases. In order to manage staffing needs for your business it is important to have some idea of how long it will be until your employee is well enough to return to work....
09/08/2020
While hurricanes have been decreasing in frequency and severity before and since hurricane Katrina the book Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink provides an excellent example of how plans and programs made simply to match accreditation standards, or OSHA standards can turn an emergency into a...
08/26/2020
The following wide-spread and long-standing safety weaknesses can all exist within a culture based on ever lower incidence rate numbers and zero goals rather than a wholistic approach to safety management:
08/06/2020
In Part I of this blog series, we discussed why we created Simple Safety Coach. Part II provided an overview of what we have put into the software, and why. Now in Part III,...
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