Articles Tagged with ''accident prevention''

Why do people make mistakes?

August 10, 2011
Who hasn’t at some point made a safety-related mistake that put themselves and perhaps co-workers at risk?


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A Growing Obligation to Prevent Harm

Understand the meaning of “standard of care”
July 7, 2011
Should a New York Wal-Mart store have had a crowd control plan in 2008 that may have prevented an employee being trampled to death by shoppers during the store’s annual “Blitz Friday?”
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What was Heinrich thinking?

New research refutes old assumptions
August 2, 2011
For many years safety and health professionals, and the companies that employ them, have been diligently seeking the most effective means of achieving and sustaining high safety performance.


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EDITORIAL COMMENTS: Don't Fool With Mother Nature

November 1, 2010

Have appropriate respect for who’s really in charge out there.


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On the road again -- and again -- and again

May 24, 2011

You ever think about your driving? Unless you’ve had a recent crash, a DUI, your premiums jacked up, a nearcrash, or a violation that costs you bucks, why, really, would you?


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Egyptian Spring comes to Chicago

June 15, 2011
Ahmed S. AZZAM, QHSE Country Manager for Ideal Standard Eqypt, told us an almost unimaginable crisis management story on Sunday at the conference. Ahmed is VP of the ASSE Egyptian Chapter, which has 260+ members. He is attending the conference with the chapter’s president and treasurer.
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EDITORIAL COMMENTS: Close encounter of the complacent kind

September 1, 2010
Bad decisions. Missed warnings. Pushing the limits. I can relate.
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Safety confronts a leadership crisis

Fatalities, severe injuries & emotional health demand action
October 1, 2011
Distressing. Unacceptable. Mired in mediocrity. I’m paraphrasing, but that’s the essence of the American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) reaction last month to news from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that a total of 4,547 workers died on the job in 2010 compared with 4,551 from 2009. 


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Accidents just happen?

Leadership can prevent serious injuries and fatalities
October 1, 2011
How could this hypothetical but all too common scenario happen? 


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Don’t dismiss hidden safety traps

Use JHAs to uncover latent organizational errors
October 1, 2011
The concepts for Human Performance Improvement (HPI) have been advocated for use in safety programs for a number of years. 


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