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Michaels: U.S. and E.U. must work together on occupational safety

It is clear that a new paradigm is needed
August 1, 2011
The United States and the European Union share many challenges in preventing work-related injuries and illnesses – challenges that “weaken our social fabric and our economies,” said Dr. David Michaels, in a speech earlier this month to the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

 


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Health protection + health promotion = healthier workforce, says study

A healthier workplace may be a safer workplace
July 28, 2011
Employers who integrate their safety initiatives with their health and wellness programming have the potential to improve the overall health and productivity of their workforces, according to a paper published in the June issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM). 


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VPPPA welcomes Steven Witt as Senior Advisor

July 27, 2011
The Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association, Inc. (VPPPA) is pleased to announce that the former director of the Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Steven Witt joined the VPPPA National Office staff on July 11, 2011.


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YOU are selfish and don’t care until it gets personal

Nantha Kumaran
July 27, 2011
People don’t care. You don’t care. Nobody cares until it gets personal.


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"Good guys" are more likely to cut ethical corners of trust

Peter Sandman Ph.D.
July 14, 2011
This blog comes from the Guestbook discussion board on risk communication expert Dr. Peter Sandman's website www.psandman.com and is reprinted here with Dr. Sandman's permission.


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WDWT (Why don’t we talk?)

The lost art of face-to-face communication
DJ Borbidge
July 11, 2011
Can you translate this? ! AAMOI AFAIU AR FEAR BOCTAAE FEAR DAMHIKT EOD FOUO Believe it or not the message above is this: “I have a comment. As a matter of interest. As far as I understand. Action required.
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Catch the Invisible Drift

It’s easy to stray from safety rules
James E. Leemann Ph.D.
July 7, 2011
Colonel Scott A. Snook, Ph.D., in Friendly Fire1 introduced the term practical drift. The theory of practical drift emerged from Snook’s root cause analysis of a 1994 friendly fire accident in which two U.S. Air Force F-15C Eagle fighter jets patrolling the No-Fly-Zone over northern Iraq shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk UH-60 helicopters. Twenty-six peacekeepers lost their lives.
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A Growing Obligation to Prevent Harm

Understand the meaning of “standard of care”
Dan Markiewicz
Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP
July 7, 2011
Should a New York Wal-Mart store have had a crowd control plan in 2008 that may have prevented an employee being trampled to death by shoppers during the store’s annual “Blitz Friday?”
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Predict & prevent workplace injuries

Raghu Arunachalam Ph.D. Griffin Schultz
June 1, 2011
You might be surprised to learn that many of the same technologies used to construct “Watson,” the supercomputer that beat the best human champions on the game show “Jeopardy,” as well as the “Deep Blue” supercomputer that defeated Gary Kasparov and other chess masters, are being employed to bring cutting edge predictive and advanced analytics to the field of safety.
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It's all about ownership

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.
May 31, 2011
I get asked to visit companies and “diagnose” why their behavioral safety program has “lost steam” or never got off the ground to begin with. Inevitably I find the whole shebang is being run by the safety department and a few anointed safety enthusiasts who do all the observations.
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