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Good health boosts fitness, morale & productivity

Preventive, proactive processes reduce costs & increase safety & performance

February 18, 2019

Wellness is defined as “the condition of good physical, mental and emotional health, especially when maintained by an appropriate diet, exercise, and other lifestyle modifications.” Companies are turning to preventative programs to reduce workplace injuries.

Fear & insecurity stifle reporting illnesses & stressors

Millions of workers suffer in silence

Dave Johnson

December 17, 2018

Chronic pain we know about too well. The opioid onslaught has taught us that. The pressure to work through pain is real, particularly in industries with a macho ethos such as construction and oil and gas. But step back and look at a larger picture — chronic diseases — and the untold millions of adults who work through a chronic illness.

actively caring for people, behavior-based safety

Actively caring for people’s safety

The crucial difference between “caring” & “acting”

Krista S. Geller, Ph.D.

December 4, 2018

What does it mean to actively care for people’s safety? Is this the mission of behavior-based safety (BBS)? Let’s understand the difference between “caring” and “acting.” No one wants to see an individual get injured on the job. This is caring. Yet, many workers admit they do not act on their caring by providing behavioral feedback.

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Workers help craft the best safety rules

Time to rebuild the “Rule Mill”

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.

December 4, 2018

Rules are so easy to make that safety offices are often accused of being a “Rule Mill” because they continuously produce their rule-of-the month. Why do we create so many rules? One particular cog in our mill that causes us to create rules is incidents. When we suffer an incident, we want to throw every tool in the arsenal to keep it from happening again.

Achieving work-life balance goes beyond finding time for the family

Robin Stanton Gerrow

October 29, 2018

Ever feel a little guilty about taking the time for that pick-up game of basketball or a weeknight watercolor class? You shouldn’t—it’s good for you and your job. That’s what doctoral candidate Victoria Daniel and Dr. Yujie Zhan of Wilfrid Laurier University discovered in their research titled “Wearing Many Hats: How Employee Personal Life Engagement Enriches Creativity at Work,” presented in April at the 2018 Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in Chicago, Illinois.

Corrie Pitzer on safety’s coming revolution

The ‘third wave’ of safety

Corrie Pitzer

October 9, 2018

Corrie discusses Safety I, Safety II, and Safety III. Safety I is the current practice—injury prevention. It is slowly evolving into Safety II, which emphasizes human performance and systems controls. Safety III holds out the promise of reinventing the profession.

Creating an employee-centric safety culture

You need ownership, training and safety as a value

Adam L. Bates, MS, MBA

October 9, 2018

What I call a “True North Safety Culture” is the point at which an organization aligns to a value and goal of eliminating risk(s)/injuries within an organization, and also aligns mission/vision statements to this goal.

Psychologically healthy workplaces honored

September 26, 2018

The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced the recipients of this year’s Psychologically Healthy Workplace Honors (PHWH), given to organizations from across the United States and Canada that have created a work environment where employees and business thrive.

New tool measures effectiveness of workplace safety and health programs

September 24, 2018

As more organizations offer increasingly comprehensive programs for workplace safety and health, researchers and organizations alike look for the best examples and tools to measure their effectiveness. With so many programs available, how do organizations know which one is best?