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Don’t let your Lockout/Tagout training lapse

Testing & reevaluating your program is essential

June 1, 2016

The purpose of this article is to provide a brief overview of Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) training, and to provide tips to make this training effective and efficient.

Here are three image-based safety training activities

Linda Tapp, CSP, ALCM

June 1, 2016

If someone has the choice to look at an image in an effort to gain understanding of something, or read a paragraph or more of text, the visual option will be much more inviting.

Cookie-cutter training doesn’t cut it

You should accommodate the diversity of your workforce

P.J. Schoeny

June 1, 2016

Last September, OSHA published its list of the Top 10 Most Frequently Cited Standards for FY2015

Avoid low attention/low retention training

8 attributes for engaging your employees

Bob Rock

June 1, 2016

We’ve all been there: a safety training course where the instructor reads from the PowerPoint® slides word for word – attempting to jazz things up with a laser pointer – while the audience struggles to keep their eyes open by sneaking looks at their phones or doodling.

Working on the side of the angels

John Drebinger Jr.

June 1, 2016

When you think of safety as a calling it takes on a whole new level of importance. You and I are not serving a company or government organization.

Do you need “The Vision Thing”?

Better to craft a specific mission statement

James E. Leemann Ph.D.

June 1, 2016

Without debating which presidential candidate you support, which Vision Thing (also known as slogan) provides a sense of inspiration, originality, and excitement?

Relationships & strategy safely lead to success

Dr. John Kello

June 1, 2016

A colleague of mine is an executive in a truly excellent company, one very explicit about its “Culture of High Performance.”

What’s your strategy for superior safety performance?

Terry Mathis

June 1, 2016

The Senior VP of Marketing at a Fortune 500 company told me he wanted his customers to feel like buying his product was the most logical decision they had ever made.

NIOSH studies nanomaterial exposure effects

May 31, 2016

Since the 1980s, the burgeoning nanomaterial field has led to a growing number of manufacturers worldwide making and using these materials in coatings, computers, clothing, cosmetics, sports equipment, and medical devices, among other items.

UL, partners tackle India’s workplace safety problems

May 31, 2016

India’s high occupational fatality and illness rate was the subject of a meeting held last month in New Delhi aimed at identifying and developing solutions for key obstacles to improved workplace safety.