I recently received the following inquiry: “We're getting ready to perform safety coaching sessions with some of our frequently injured employees. Do you know of anyone who might have a script to outline the dialogue?”
I hear a lot of complaints from safety professionals. Chief among them is that they are held accountable when other people get hurt. It’s a fair bone of contention.
This comes from the Linkedin group EHS professionals. A new safety officer complains that workers always sleep during his general meetings and he gets no respect.
Last week I posted an item about workplace bullying on my personal blog (www.philladuke.wordpress.com). I asked the question “Is workplace bullying a safety issue?” and it fomented quite a debate.
Work hazards usually not to blame for employees missing work, research shows
March 24, 2012
A supportive supervisor can keep employees in certain hazardous jobs from being absent even when co-workers think it’s all right to miss work, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
Q: My staff are digital instrumentation technicians who will never see any voltages greater than 120VAC. What entity requires training for these type individuals (right now, we're going to the training because our Electrical group says we need to, but can't prove a basis for the training, and because it makes sense from a safety point-of-view)?
Abusive bosses who'd like to stop stressing out their subordinates should exercise more. That's the finding of a new study reported in the latest issue of Journal of Business and Psychology.
What would you prefer: The carrot or the stick? Punishment works and is frequently used in less mature safety programs as a reaction to some incident that hurt someone.
As they continue to execute an aggressive global growth strategy, Pelican Products, a leading manufacturer of high performance protective case solutions and advanced, portable LED lighting systems, continues to build its team with the appointment of two business development directors, Rich Cusolito and Jeff Wodrich as Directors of New Segments, and its lighting division with the appointment of John Hanwell as Director of New Product Development—Advanced Area Lighting Group (AALG).
The company that supplies showerheads to well known hotels has appointed Robert “Bob” Knoll as the first Chief Operating Officer of Speakman Company in its 143 year history.