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How to best incorporate Behavior-Based Safety

Benefits: lower costs and better safety

August 3, 2018

Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is the application of behavioral psychology to improve safety in the workplace. The aim is to change behaviors that cause incidents and promote behaviors that are efficient and safe.

Add fun & creativity to your training program

Stop preaching & lecturing

M.B. Sutherland

July 24, 2018

Standard teaching techniques apply to all types of learning. But safety training exists on a level of its own given the life and death stakes involved. While safety professionals need to find teaching ideas that work, many find themselves falling back on the same tired slide presentations.

Editorial Comments

It’s not a matter of training, training & more training

Safety’s learning moment

July 23, 2018

Safety training has been around forever. There are also safety orientations, safety coaching, safety mentoring, safety education, safety feedback. These staples of safety programs have one thing in common: showing employees how to recognize risks, know the rules, and avoid injury or illness.

Dysfunctional Practices: that kill your Safety Culture (and what to do about them)

July 20, 2018

For Dysfunctional Practices: that kill your Safety Culture, Dr. Timothy Ludwig draws on his 30+ years of research and practice in behavioral approaches to safety to help managers re-shape their safety culture by driving out fear and risk and engaging their workforce.

How the oil and gas industry handles high risks

No guarantees

Ryan Milford

July 16, 2018

If anything has come to define the human experience throughout history, it is a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown with a confidence that borders on arrogance and come out the victor.

Does your vacation really re-charge your batteries?

June 29, 2018

Taking time off helps the majority of U.S. workers recover from stress and experience positive effects that improve their well-being and job performance, but for nearly two-thirds of working adults, the benefits of time away dissipate within a few days, according to a survey released by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Q&A with new ASSE/ASSP president

Rixio Medina oversees transition to the organization’s new name

Dave Johnson

June 26, 2018

ISHN editor Dave Johnson sat down with Rixio Medina, new president of ASSE/ASSP who is overseeing the transition of the organization's new name.

Making safety a family affair

Jennifer Odiatu

June 25, 2018

Riggio Valve is a family-owned small business in Bayonne, New Jersey, that performs rebuilding, welding, and machining services. Several years ago, owner and president Vin Riggio set out to improve his company’s workplace safety and health program.

CSHS supports proposal for companies to disclose human capital metrics

June 20, 2018

The Center for Safety and Health Sustainability (CSHS), whose member organizations represent more than 100,000 workplace safety and health professionals around the world, has filed one of many letters of support of a petition from the Human Capital Management Coalition.

Weekly news round-up

June 16, 2018

Trenching hazards claim a life just ahead of the national Trench Safety Stand Down; fatigued workers affecting a majority of businesses and OSHA makes changes in its Voluntary Protection Program. These were among the top stories featured on ISHN.com this week.