The topic of “return to work” is certainly front and center. While many organizations have continued to operate during the COVID-19 situation under the definition of essential businesses, there are many who have not — especially consumer facing businesses such as retail businesses, bars and restaurants.
COVID-19 offers great opportunity to consider OHS entrepreneurship. If your OHS job has not been subject to lay off, furloughed, or elimination – or some other drastic change – it likely will be in the coming months.
While entrepreneurs may bring incredible ideas to the table, it is employees who are instrumental in bringing them to fruition and pushing them to the next level.
In the past several decades, the size of industrial systems and the technology that grows alongside it has, naturally, expanded. Alongside it, though, the hazardous factors that cause major accidents — like unstable conditions and behavior — have become even more complex, thereby expanding in a similar vein at a breakneck speed.
I think that it’s interesting how the neuroscience and the critical error reduction techniques are aligned or how the neuroscience supports or validates the critical error reduction techniques.
COVE (Center of Visual Expertise) is hosting two virtual workshops in June
June 4, 2020
In an ongoing effort to share the importance of Visual Literacy and to improve safety performance, COVE (Center of Visual Expertise) is offering two Virtual Visual Literacy Workshops in June. This workshop will introduce Visual Literacy concepts along with a selection of exercises and activities similar to those conducted in COVE’s two-day Foundations of Visual Literacy workshop held in Toledo, Ohio.
Did you know that our body does not discriminate between sources of stress? It simply responds to the stress. So, whether the stress is coming from an actual event, or simply a thought, the body may react in a similar way. Now, in these times when there is so much uncertainty, stress can have a huge impact on our bodies.