Safety+Health presents the results of its annual salary survey – now with more information than before thanks to a partnership with the Board of Certified Safety Professionals.
Full article: Salary Survey 2021
Source: Safety Info-Graphics
Safety Leadership: Behavior-based safety is needed now more than ever
“For this to happen means proving wrong some prevailing myths about BBS,” says Rebecca Timmins of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Behavior-based safety is needed now more than ever
Source: Safety Leadership
OHS expert witnesses in demand with new forms of litigation due to workplace injury disputes
In the earliest days of OHS, disputes of who was responsible for the payment of a workplace injury or illness was settled by litigation. Every US state eventually passed workers’ compensation insurance law to establish a no-fault system where responsibility for injury/illness payment nearly always falls upon the employer.
Full article: OHS expert witnesses in demand with new forms of litigation due to workplace injury disputes
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: More than a manager: Leaders are needed to avoid organizational complacency
“Organizations must reframe success not just by the services or products they provide, but in the conduct of their leaders,” says Sarah Eck of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: More than a manager: Leaders are needed to avoid organizational complacency
Source: Safety Leadership
Do we trust professional industrial hygienists’ judgment?
Anyone may call themselves an industrial hygienist and anyone may practice industrial hygiene. No license, certificate, formal education, or years of experience are required for someone to practice industrial hygiene in the United States. Whether IH is a profession, trade or practice is just semantics.
Full article: Do we trust professional industrial hygienists’ judgment?
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: Using artificial intelligence to identify serious injury and fatality potential: Part II
“By using a different approach, we can achieve our two primary objectives: removing the subjectivity and delay in determining SIF potential,” says Don Groover of DEKRA. “The approach is to use an expert logic system.”
Full article: Safety Leadership: Using artificial intelligence to identify serious injury and fatality potential: Part II
Source: Safety Leadership
Are long work hours unhealthy? The issue is more complex than it initially appears
Long working hours are now considered by the WHO/ILO to be the occupational risk factor with the largest attributable disease burden. WHO/ILO advise, “Protecting and promoting occupational and workers’ safety and health requires interventions to reduce hazardous long working hours.”
Full article: Are long work hours unhealthy? The issue is more complex than it initially appears
Source: Safety Best Practices
White Paper | 4 Steps tp Conducting a Job Hazard Analysis
Conducting a job hazard analysis helps both employers and employees identify potential dangers in the workplace, making it easier to prepare against occupational hazards, from the most common to the most severe.
Full article: White Paper | 4 Steps tp Conducting a Job Hazard Analysis
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: Using artificial intelligence to identify serious injury and fatality potential
“Under the right circumstances, AI can achieve an acceptable level of accuracy in classifying SIFp based on an analysis of case narratives,” says Don Groover of DEKRA.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Using artificial intelligence to identify serious injury and fatality potential
Source: Safety Leadership
OHS professionals have an active role in diversity and inclusion within workplaces
CEOs Action for Diversity & Inclusion (1) state that “… diversity and inclusion are multifaceted issues and that we need to tackle these subjects holistically to better engage and support all underrepresented groups within business.”
Full article: OHS professionals have an active role in diversity and inclusion within workplaces
Source: Safety Best Practices