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Six must-have features to protect lone workers

Lifeline to safety

January 1, 2020

On a Tuesday afternoon, you send a maintenance contractor out to a remote station to perform a routine check on some of your equipment. Your contractor drives out to the nearest access road, parks his truck, and walks over to the site. When he gets there, his personal gas monitor alerts him to high levels of dangerous gases...

Human error & operational risk

Are you looking in the wrong place to manage non-compliant behaviors?

Peter Bridle

November 14, 2018

How confident are you that a costly, serious safety event isn’t just around the next corner? If your organization has ever been surprised or caught off-guard by a sudden deterioration in its safety performance, it may be that you’re simply not getting the whole picture when it comes to operational risk.

Five tips for providing effective safety training

Get your people in “The Zone”

David F. Coble MS CSP

November 2, 2018

Have you ever been in “The Zone”? “The Zone” is described as a tunnel-vision experience and an extreme focus. “The Zone” is reported by athletes, soldiers, and researchers.

‘Safety culture’ is a messy concept

Too many interpretations lead to haphazard applications

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.

October 4, 2018

The term “Safety culture” has become like the term “engagement” in popular management writings. There is no common agreement on the term. We are left with (mis)interpretations of terms like “safety culture,” which lead to haphazard attempts at changing organizations toward improvement.

Editorial Comments

Safety is a job: Some take it, some leave it…

Dave Johnson

February 23, 2018

Safety is a responsibility. A well-run safety program or safety culture really isn't possible unless management takes on safety as a job, and maintenance and quality and production and shipping and HR and all other departments are prepped to assume their particular responsibilities for safety.

Global PPE market size forecast to be $67.6 billion by 2023

January 1, 2017

The personal protective equipment (PPE) market size is forecast to hit $67.6 billion by 2023; as per a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc.

Lockout/Tagout

7 steps to protect your people

Wayne Dunham

August 1, 2012

Do you need a lockout/tagout program at your company? Last year, a lumber mill had $1.6 million worth of reasons to say “yes.”

Keep your facility clean

Control & contain industrial fluids & chemicals

Derek Yurgaitis

August 1, 2012

When it comes to keeping your facility clean, there’s more at stake than general tidiness.

Webinar

8/31/20 to 8/31/21

Contact: Varonica Galbraith

Reimagining the Workplace: Ensuring Employee Safety Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

On Demand This webinar will share tangible examples of alterations that are required and how to combat the pandemic, highlighting how clinical expertise is a key unlock to translating federal, state and local guidelines into action plans and protocols.

On Demand Learn how to harness the power of visual communication to create a resilient safety culture and keep employees connected, informed, invested, and safe as they re-enter the workplace.

In this webcast, we’ll break down OSHA’s requirements for conducting forklift operator training. We’ll also provide tips that aren’t addressed in the regulations to make sure your program is as effective as it can be.