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Items Tagged with 'serious injuries'

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Tools for serious injury & fatality prevention
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Tools for serious injury & fatality prevention

Seeing precursors
Glenn Murray
March 2, 2020

In the last decade or so many organizations have been placing more of a focus on Serious Injury and Fatality prevention (SIF). The theory behind the traditional “Safety Pyramid” (or Heinrich Safety Triangle) says if we reduce incidents at the “base” of the pyramid, it follows we will reduce incidents at the top of the pyramid at an approximately proportional rate. 


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reporting serious injuries and fatalities

Knockin’ on heaven’s door

It’s a sound no one wants to hear in safety – to the harm of protecting workers
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Dave Johnson
April 23, 2019

In 2017, 5,147 workers in the U.S. were killed on the job, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, down slightly from 5.190 in 2016. The fatal injury rate in 2017 was 3.5 per 100,000 full-time employees. Three or four people out of 100,000. Not close to one percent. Meaning most everyone escapes being touched by a work-related death. 


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Celebrate Workers’ Memorial Day

Celebrate Workers’ Memorial Day every day

Take a strong stand, fight, and let’s celebrate life, not death and injury.
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Ron Hayes
April 8, 2019

Workers' Memorial Day, International Workers 'Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning takes place annually around the world on April 28, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work. 


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Getting serious about preventing fatalities & serious injuries

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”—Albert Einstein
Rosemarie Lally, JD Stephen Newell, JD Dee Woodhull, CIH, CSP
June 7, 2017

A renaissance in safety and health thinking is taking place as rates for fatal and serious injuries and illnesses continue unabated. This movement is re-examining of some of the concepts that underpin the safety and health profession.


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Reducing serious injuries and fatalities

You must advance from the reactive OSHA approach
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Mike Williamsen Ph.D., CSP
March 1, 2017

Recently one of our potential customers asked this question:  For a firm that has a DART rate of 0.5, and would like to get to a DART rate of 0.2, to help make the compelling case for change, what is the likelihood that you’re more likely to experience an SIF event having a DART rate of 0.5, thus the need for change?


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Cultures of safety

Preventing serious injuries and fatalities
John Montigny
March 6, 2013
Accidents don’t just happen within a Culture of Safety.


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