The risk alignment challenge: How high-performing organizations respond
“When there’s misalignment, the tolerance to risk increases at the front line, where the risk of injury is highest,” says Elizabeth Prazeres of DEKRA.
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OSHA’s proposed lead rulemaking
Description: The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2022 overturn of 1973 Roe v Wade has emboldened states to propose “fetal personhood” laws. What does this mean for proposed rulemaking for blood lead levels?
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Safety Leadership: Setting supervisors up for safety success
“Provide them with strategies that enhance safety activities by incorporating leadership best practices,” says Claudia Lima of DEKRA.
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Leaders with empathy are valuable
Who is more empathetic e.g., better able to recognize pain in a person’s face, a professional industrial hygienist, or a professional historian? A person’s empathy capacity may be partly determined by Empathy Quotient (EQ) scores.
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Scope creep: Expand or establish limits of industrial hygiene capability?
Industrial hygiene began as a medical specialty in the early 1900s. Scope creep among OHS pros is occurring now and will expand in the future, too. The challenge for OHS pros, and others, is to know when to expand or establish limits of OHS capabilities.
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Invest in your workers
Expenses are an unavoidable reality and the cost of doing business. The trick is to pick the right things to spend money on, to maximize revenue and minimize cost.
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The impact of overturn of Roe v Wade on workplaces
The court ruled in Roe that, “A person may choose to have an abortion until a fetus becomes viable, based on the right to privacy contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Safety Leadership: 5 steps to unlock your organization’s safety potential
Mike Snyder of DEKRA offers a path for implementing an effective risk-based management approach.
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Safety Leadership: The link between successful outcomes and supervisor excellence
“Even if we know that a certain safe behavior is expected – or even required – of us, the consequences are the most important influence on future behavior,” says Erika Gwilt of DEKRA.
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What’s that smell? Odor management should be part of your OHS program
How humans and other animals detect odors is an intriguing topic. Each OHS pro should understand the basics of how to interpret chemical exposures.
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