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Mental toughness : Are you developing yours?

September 5, 2013

Everything hasn’t always been rosy in my safety career, just as things haven’t been in yours.

Employees can close the gaps in your safety culture

Understanding how to successfully engage and empower your workforce is key to ensuring that your organization can start and continue the journey toward safety culture excellence.

Brett Haskins CSP

September 5, 2013

Empowering front-line workers — those who stand to benefit the most from an effective safety process — is a concept that has been talked about much over the last decade

Preview: 2013 National Safety Congress & Expo

The NSC Expo, with the theme, “Leading Safety into the Future,” will be held in the NSC’s hometown of Chicago, Sept. 30–Oct. 2.

September 5, 2013

Some big names will be coming to the Windy City. The Congress kicks off Monday morning with appearances by Janet Froetscher, President & CEO of the National Safety Council, Kent McElhattan, Chairman, Board of Directors of the National Safety Council, and Jeff Woodbury, Incoming Chairman, Board of Directors, of the National Safety Council.

Safety pros urged to get involved with construction contracts

They can engineer out safety problems before project starts

September 3, 2013

A recent survey of construction and safety professionals highlights the need to include safety management in the earliest phases of construction contracts, according to the authors of an article in this month’s Professional Safety, the journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).

Techno safety at the tipping point

Your job is going to be so different

Dave Johnson

August 1, 2013

Used to be safety trade shows were a circus of magicians, carny barkers and buxom models in bikinis waving from swings.

You really can change your safety culture

But you must reprogram how you see things

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

August 1, 2013

Continuing the changing culture theme from last month, let’s explore Mark Bodnarczuk’s Island of Excellence® Change Model.

Who really owns safety?

Bottom line reality differs from the rhetoric

Shawn M. Galloway

August 1, 2013

If safety is more important than production, why does safety report up through legal, human resources or production rather than production reporting up through the company’s number one priority?

ISHN readers weigh in on contractor’s dilemma

He brings up unsafe conditions, is ignored

July 30, 2013

If safety is not in your job description, are you obligated to mention unsafe work conditions? That was one of the topics that appeared in the responses to a story featured on the ISHN website on July 18: “Safety pro asks, ‘Who can fight for my rights?’”

So you want to integrate safety…

Do you have a safety subculture residing in a silo?

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

July 9, 2013

Do you believe there is a subculture within the overall culture of your organization that is all about safety and nothing else?

The rise of the safety extremist

Phil La Duke

June 27, 2013

I write provocative material. I deliberately try to elicit a visceral response and take people to a place where they can explore their deepest held beliefs and question basic ideologies of safety. The latest in neuroscience suggests that our decisions or made and our ability to change reside deep in our subconscious beneath our defenses.