Workplace Safety Culture - Articles - Page 88

You must be a curator to access & sell your knowledge & expertise

June 7, 2013

To enhance your value to any organization, one must become a “curator” that can identify, select, qualify, and organize essential information.

Five ways managers undermine culture

Scott Stricoff Don Groover

June 7, 2013

In order to build (or strengthen) a safety culture, it’s helpful for managers to recognize pitfalls of leading in safety and understand how to remedy them.

Face-to-face connections lead to employee engagement

Brian Galonek

June 7, 2013

This article will focus on the first pillar — employee engagement — a fundamental necessity without which safety improvements are difficult at best and a good safety culture is virtually impossible.

You need to manage strategically

Not enough attention is placed on the need for business practices to be integrated into safety thinking

Shawn M. Galloway

June 7, 2013

Imagine an operational leader of any business who is unable to produce a strategic plan.

How should you respond to an active shooter?

The Department of Homeland Security developed a website that provides all necessary training materials to deal with an active shooter

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

June 7, 2013

Where and when the next mass shooting event will occur cannot be known, but thinking it can’t be your workplace is naïve.

Agency releases safety culture statement for offshore oil industry

Regulations “are not enough”

June 3, 2013

In an effort to promote safety in the offshore oil and gas industry, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has released a nine-point Safety Culture Policy Statement.

What you need to know about management systems

They're about tools, not guarantees

Dave Johnson

May 29, 2013

Consultants Tom Rancour and Bradford Russell offered these takeaways in a session at the AIHce: Some companies implement and dedicate time to management systems, but the guiding principle, the safety and health policy, is buried in some labor manual. Without a “map,” management systems develop “escapes” or leaks in risk management compliance because the vision and the followup protocols are buried.

Try this at your next safety and health meeting

Learn what's on employees' minds in one fell swoop

Dave Johnson

May 21, 2013

At the AIHce Tuesday afternoon they called it “IGNITE” – enlightenment in a hurry. Of course we are all in a hurry these days, and grab our news on the go, preferably in easy to digest bite-size bits. That’s the idea behind IGNITE, which was a 90-minute session at AIHce.

Takeaways on how to innovate

-including the ten thousand hour principle

Dave Johnson

May 20, 2013

Frans Johannsson, author, lecturer and entrepreneur, has made the rounds on network news shows, mostly discussing his two books, “The Medici Effect” (2004; published in 17 translations) and “The Click Moment” (2012). His opening keynote at the AIHce focused on innovation for the lay person, for all of us in the business world. Here are takeaways from his 50-minute rapid-fire, high-energy talk: