Saying an organization’s safety program is world class “allows people to be tempted to take their foot off the gas even though they aren’t at the finish line,” say Don Groover and Jim Spigener from DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Why no one is ‘world class’ in safety
Source: Safety Leadership
Safety Leadership: Your brain in the ‘new normal’
“As many organizations begin to shift their focus from virus response toward returning to work, a blind spot is emerging,” says Josh Mrozowsky, vice president at DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Your brain in the ‘new normal’
Source: Safety Leadership
Check your OHS legal requirements
Whether there is an overpopulation of lawyers in the U.S. is debatable. The more complex, diverse, and open a society is, the greater number of lawyers are necessary to help resolve disputes.
Full article: Check your OHS legal requirements
Source: Safety Best Practices
Rise of the OHS entrepreneur
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.
Full article: Rise of the OHS entrepreneur
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: The ‘ABC’ model for influencing behavior
Angelica Grindle and Erika Gwilt, who specialize in client engagement at DEKRA, discuss how antecedents, behavior and consequences help us understand what influences and controls behavior.
Full article: Safety Leadership: The ‘ABC’ model for influencing behavior
Source: Safety Leadership
ASSP’s Deb Roy discusses her EHS career, offers advice for safety professionals
ISHN interviews ASSP President-Elect Deb Roy in this episode of Dave Johnson’s Wide World of Safety.
Full article: ASSP’s Deb Roy discusses her EHS career, offers advice for safety professionals
Source: Safety Best Practices
Prevent the spread of COVID-19 with cough and sneeze shields
A cough can travel as fast as 50 mph and expel almost 3,000 droplets in just one go. Sneezes are even more forceful —they can travel up to 100 mph and create upwards of 100,000 droplets.
Full article: Prevent the spread of COVID-19 with cough and sneeze shields
Source: Safety Best Practices
Workplace safety considerations in recognition of National Electrical Safety Month
According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), in 2018, nearly one in ten workplace electrical injuries were fatal, and more than half of these occurred in the construction industry.
Full article: Workplace safety considerations in recognition of National Electrical Safety Month
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: Your brain on Zoom
David Musgrave, who leads the Brain-Centric Reliability practice area at DEKRA (dekra.us), offers suggestions to combat the “virtual brain drain” inherent with virtual meetings and presentations.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Your brain on Zoom
Source: Safety Leadership
How to implement proper cleaning and sanitation as companies get back to business
Whether businesses and facilities are preparing to reopen after the COVID-19 shutdowns, or they are performing ongoing efforts to keep their space as clean and sanitized as possible, Goodway Technologies is offering some tips to keep surfaces and the indoor environment safer and cleaner for its occupants. Goodway, which manufactures specialized cleaning and sanitation equipment, has been implementing these steps as they continue to produce solutions for the wide array of industries seeking solutions to keep their employees, customers, and any building occupants safe and healthy.
Full article: How to implement proper cleaning and sanitation as companies get back to business
Source: Safety Best Practices
