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:
06/25/2020
Pre-Shift Surveys that can be completed on a computer or mobile phone, before the employees even leave the home, have many advantages over taking an employee’s temperature once they arrive.
05/25/2020
Did you know that Safety and Health professionals are considered essential?
While the Bureau of Labor Statistics recent statistics show an increase in the number of preventable fatalities the number of qualified safety and health professionals is still flatlined and aging. ...
04/05/2020
The adoption of safety management technology spans everywhere from a few paper forms sitting around the office to completely automated desktop and mobile apps. Most companies fall into the majority category of having some form of technology to help manage safety processes but are still...
03/30/2020
Recently I came across bing.com/covid with a map of all the countries in the world and the statistics about the disease at each location. Very user friendly with small dots for few confirmed COVID-19 cases and large dots for...
03/23/2020
On January 21,2020 an 80 year old Hong Kong man came aboard the Diamond Princess, a cruise ship, and he disembarked on January 26th. On February 1, 2020 he tested positive for COVID-19. On February 3rd the Diamond Princess docked in Japan’s Yokohama port and the...
03/08/2020
Happy International Women’s Day!
And what better way to celebrate than to share some information about one of America’s first Industrial Hygienists: Alice Hamilton!
Alice was born in 1869 in New York but lived most of her life in Illinois. During her life she was...
03/01/2020
Business owners or managers, when you advertise your business, do you showcase how many days since you last failed? You don't. Yet every day most employees pass a sign that boldly reports the number of days since hazards in your workplace hurt a fellow employee.
When...
11/03/2019
In Part I we learned from an article by Lee Shelby called
10/23/2019
Recently, I was at a safety conference where the keynote speaker was Eric Giguere, who, even though he had never been trained in it before, volunteered to work with a crew installing sewer pipe. He recounted how his...
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