Safety Training & Incentives - Articles - Page 20

Online safety training: Are workers tuned in...or texting?

August 12, 2019

Safety training is increasingly going online because companies and organizations find it more convenient for workers, more productive and cheaper to deliver. “It’s huge,” says Dan MacDonald, president of BIS Training Solutions, an Edmonton-area company that provides training software, as well as classroom and online training. “It’s probably a billion-dollar industry just in Canada.”

Online driver training is a tool to use

Mark Murrell

August 12, 2019

Whenever I chat with fleets about CarriersEdge, and what our online training services can offer, I am confident in my replies as the questions are usually standard. Not much stumps me, but when I attended the Mid America Trucking Show a potential client asked me what we say to drivers who feel threatened by our online training. I had been asked that same question 12 years ago, and I remember that I really had to think about how I would respond.

Online training helps managers support employee mental health

August 12, 2019

An online training program called HeadCoach increases managers' confidence in their ability to prevent and manage mental health issues among their staff, reports a trial in the July Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Friendly persuasion beats negative safety training lectures

Safety needs a “common language”

Larry Wilson

August 1, 2019

Be careful, pay attention, watch what you’re doing, follow the rules... and you won’t get hurt!” Not exactly the most positive form of communication, is it?

Learn the different types of arc flashes

Electricity through the air

Benita Mehta

August 1, 2019

While arc flash is an increasingly well-known phenomena, workers are still suffering injuries on a regular basis. In June 2019, OSHA cited a metal smelting company for electrical hazards after an arc flash caused three workers to suffer severe burns at the ASARCO facility in Hayden, Arizona.

Implement a floor safety plan to prevent slips, trips & falls

Daily housekeeping required

Karen Hamel

August 1, 2019

Telling employees to watch their step isn’t enough to eliminate slip, trip and fall injuries in production areas. Like other safety hazards, slip, trip and fall hazards can be identified and in many cases eliminated.

Human behavior impacts safety shower training & usage

Ryan Pfund

August 1, 2019

Imagine a work setting with all the latest and greatest eye washes and safety showers installed in every area that poses an exposure risk with easy and unobstructed access.

Misunderstandings cloud our vision of a healthy safety culture

David Applegate

August 1, 2019

Our safety programs, if they exist at all, tend to focus on participation and completion, rather than transformation. To be fair, the chief obstacle stems from a preponderance of wrong assumptions and dangerous misconceptions. Identifying some of these (see below) may help us as safety professionals become more effective in our mission.

NFPA develops safety training bundle for facility managers

July 31, 2019

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has developed a training bundle to help facility managers, building owners, engineers, designers, and code officials address essential safety and security features in the buildings that they are charged with keeping safe and functional.

Train workers to accurately see hazards & report what they find

The Hazard Hunt will never be the same

July 29, 2019

“What are you going to do for an 18- to 23-year-old who yesterday worked at Wendy’s and today will be walking into a high-risk work environment?” asked Mike Deetsch. Mike is the director of education and engagement for the Toledo Museum of Art.