Moving materials efficiently at the Dana Corporation facility in Toledo, Ohio, from receiving, throughout production and shipping, is critical to their operation. When Dana decided to upgrade its fleet of LPG forklifts in 2007, management planned to achieve environmental, health and safety best practices.
Almost every self-help book and theory of human behavior gives intention a critical role. We are told to define explicitly what behavior we intend to perform and what attitude or mindset will accompany our behavior. In a real sense, this intention-setting experience becomes our “control panel,” exerting self-direction and purposeful action.
“Brothers Concerned About Scaffold, Relative Says,” ran the headline in The New York Times on December 9, 2007. Two days before, the brothers fell from the sky, plunging 47 stories along with their scaffold from the roof of a sleek, black glass Manhattan apartment tower. One was killed instantly; the other was hospitalized, critically injured, as we went to press.
I have a name for the various bad behaviors of drivers; some names I borrowed and some I came up with. Have you seen these poor driving behaviors before?
Just how much freedom and flexibility do EHS professionals have to pursue their priorities and execute their responsibilities within the confines of their company’s culture?
Most of us are neither universally positive and committed nor universally negative and unplugged. Our current attitude depends overwhelmingly on our relationship with our organization, or more specifically still, on our relationship with our immediate manager.
Dr. Brothers donated his kidney to his mentor and professional colleague — Dr. Patricia Krantz, executive director of the Princeton Child Development Institute, Princeton, N.J. Dr. Brothers’ elective surgery exemplifies physical courage.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not count combat injuries and deaths in its annual surveys. If it did, the military would unquestionably qualify as America’s most dangerous job.
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