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Everything hasn’t always been rosy in my safety career, just as things haven’t been in yours.

Equipping at-height workers with quality, job-specific gear is only half the battle.

Used to be safety trade shows were a circus of magicians, carny barkers and buxom models in bikinis waving from swings.

Continuing the changing culture theme from last month, let’s explore Mark Bodnarczuk’s Island of Excellence® Change Model.

If you hold the CSP, OHST or CHST, the BCSP will allow you to fast-track to obtain a CET.

To stay relevant, silence distracters and continue to help organizations eliminate death on the job, behavior-based safety (BBS) processes need to experience a “step-change.”

If safety is more important than production, why does safety report up through legal, human resources or production rather than production reporting up through the company’s number one priority?

I was in an industrial facility speaking with a mix of workers and managers trying to figure out why personal injuries kept cropping up with some regularity.

Actually, it wasn’t long ago. In the mid-1970s I was a college kid working various and sundry summer jobs. Unloading rail cars of cat food.

In May, 2012 Safeway meat counter employee, Ryan Young, stopped a man from assaulting a pregnant store customer.