Here’s how to deal with a toxic individual who sucks the energy, the positivity, the morale out of an organization.

Human resources’ rise in the corporate hierarchy is due, in part, to getting in tune with the overall strategy of the business. What would a safety strategic plan look like?

The near miss is an incredibly powerful learning tool. It carries all the information regarding a potential accident without someone actually getting hurt.

Things that you did at age 20 and 160 pounds simply have to be done differently if they are to be done safely at age 50, with a bit more padding around the middle.

How do the native locals on the other side of the fence line perceive your company’s field facilities? What are you doing to build an appropriately positive image, and to disseminate that information?

Most of us are neither universally positive and committed nor universally negative and unplugged. Our current attitude depends overwhelmingly on our relationship with our organization, or more specifically still, on our relationship with our immediate manager.

Once upon a time, many, many moons ago I went to college. After four interesting years, I went to graduate school. Especially in grad school and the higher-level undergrad classes, I discovered a high value was placed on so-called critical thinking skills.

One of the primary outcomes of the congressional hue and cry in the aftermath of the notorious Enron, Tyco International, and WorldCom accounting scandals was the Sarbanes-Oxley Law of 2002, known in shorthand as SOX. The intended consequences of SOX are obvious. The unintended consequences are less so.

As important as it is to be well trained, to have good equipment to work with and safe conditions to work in, it is also essential that workers be alert and conscious of their surroundings as they go about doing what they know how to do.