When an organization starts considering certification of its environmental or occupational health and safety management systems, the question often arises, “What kind of training program do we need to have in place to be certified?"
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — the nation's beleaguered disaster response agency — should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.
About 14,000 employers have been notified by OSHA that injury and illness rates at their work sites are higher than average and that assistance is available to help them fix safety and health hazards.
Last month in this column I discussed five factors that determine how much effort employees will put into safety (or any part of their jobs): 1) their opinion of the value of the rewards; 2) the connection they see between their effort and those rewards; 3) effort expended; 4) abilities and traits; and, 5) role perception.
Dear Employee:
I’m writing this article for you, because your employer is worried that if they bring up the subject, their comments may be taken all wrong and the problem may get worse.
The problem is that your employer can’t find any workplace cause for your health problems.
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To prepare for this article, I familiarized myself with a number of management systems. This is not intended to be a critical analysis of any of these management systems; it’s just one person’s observations based on a number of years of experience with management systems.
If safety pros want to step up and assume leadership positions in their organizations (and why shouldn’t they?), maybe it’s time to play a little hardball. What the heck, baseball season is in full swing.
Last month I reviewed five basic principles of the behavioral approach to occupational safety. Each of those fundamentals, including the use of behavioral language to define accountability systems and provide constructive feedback, is relevant for problem-solving beyond the workplace and for more than injury prevention
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — the nation's beleaguered disaster response agency — should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded.
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