Articles Tagged with ''safety management''

Many areas within the environmental health and safety (EHS) industry rely on extensive training and competency of the workforce to avoid any critical safety incidents.

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

To stay relevant, silence distracters and continue to help organizations eliminate death on the job, behavior-based safety (BBS) processes need to experience a “step-change.”

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?

We all know that high-performing cultures for safety rely heavily on engagement, collaboration, and cooperation.

Consider your safety process. Certainly your safety management systems such as your procedures, rules, reporting systems, inspections, hazard identification, safety training and the like act as a sort of foundation and structure that we hope will reduce hazards and associated risk

During the past 20 years there has been increasing evidence of the role that corporate, or organizational, culture plays in determining safety performance.

This month we will cover the need for Power.

With any process involving hazardous materials, the primary goal is to prevent the release of the substance.

A three-year nationwide study explored the effects of corporate culture on the level of safety performance (Erick¬son, 1994).