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safety management systems

An actionable safety plan: Part 2 – Establishing core actions

This is the second in a three-part series
Deborah Grubbe James B. Porter Jr.
January 19, 2018

Our most recent column (October 2017, pp. 16-17) covered part one (of three) in developing an actionable safety plan. First we described some key First Actions in implementation. Below we describe the three action areas. Part three will detail Sustaining Actions.


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workplace safety culture

Dispelling the myth that your worksite is unique

“Accidents just happen around here”
Dr. John Kello
January 8, 2018

We tend to view our own industry, whatever it is, as unique. We’re prone to see our industry as having characteristics that distinguish it from other industries. I am often told by clients, “this business is unlike any other.”


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leaders with their workers

Leaders: A purposeful presence can open up safety dialog

Wallow with your people
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David Sarkus MS, CSP
January 1, 2018

When I coach leaders, I often hear that the image of wallowing stays with them long after I’m gone - even when they don’t feel like wallowing! Ultimately, the thought of wallowing moves their thoughts to intentions, and then, purposeful actions.


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training program strategies

Short, more digestible training programs meet today’s needs

Brad Harbaugh
January 1, 2018

The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to review your training challenges, and consider online solutions that align with your needs. Following, we look at common workplace training challenges, and how today’s online solutions can help ease those burdens.


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ishn survey projections for 2018

Survey reports stable EHS budgets, staffs & incomes

Davejohnson
Dave Johnson
January 1, 2018

Safety and health professionals (full-timers) and practitioners (part-timers) are in stable, generally positive positions entering the new year, according to reader research conducted by ISHN magazine in October, 2017.


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safety leadership

Focus on organizational and human factors impacting risk

Hit the reset button
December 12, 2017

Changes in safety and health approaches are needed both in and outside of government. Many established beliefs and assumptions concerning government operations currently are being re-evaluated and questioned. This reset presents an opportunity.


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OSHA Penalty Settlements

The art of the deal: Know how OSHA reaches settlements

Markiewicz
Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
December 1, 2017

OSHA has cut deals with employers and industry associations ever since the agency’s beginning. About one-third of cited employers don’t take OSHA’s deal. They just correct and pay. Will more of this group deal with OSHA in the future?


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red flag warnings and predictions

Why can’t we see red flags?

No one likes to listen to a pessimist
Davejohnson
Dave Johnson
December 1, 2017

Do your safety and health efforts have a sufficient number of realists – or potential pessimists – who know the truth on the ground, and will call it as they see it to more distant and pre-occupied higher-ups?


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worker safety conversations and culture

The benefits of having better conversations on safety

More than a scorecard metric…
Kiran Jagilinki
November 29, 2017

Unlike other business metrics, safety can impact our lives both on and off the job. To flourish in the business world, great organizations need to also evolve and elevate their cultures by making safety more than just a metric on a scorecard.


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Bed bug bites

Safety tips as mobile workers multiply

Don’t let the bed-bugs bite
Markiewicz
Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM
November 26, 2017

Lack of deep cleaning and other actions/inactions help unwanted guests in the room, such as bed-bugs and germs, to multiply and spread to bedding and even packed clothes.


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