If there’s a workplace fatality, or if injury/illness rates are too high, or workplace hazards and risks are perceived to be great, employers, disgruntled workers and outside interested parties, such as OSHA, often seek an EHS revolution — rapid fundamental change.
Full article: Stay abreast of these evolving EHS requirements
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: It’s time for a revolution in behavior-based safety
“Safety – and the issues surrounding it – is far different from when behavior-based safety first came onto the scene,” says Susan Murphy from DEKRA Insight, who presents five principles for creating a modern injury-reduction system.
Full article: Safety Leadership: It’s time for a revolution in behavior-based safety
Source: Safety Leadership
Does ISO 45001 address sexism?
With #womensmarch and #metoo bookending 2017, many U.S. employers are likely to establish new policies and procedures in 2018 to better manage workplace sexism. How does this practice impact occupational health and safety?
Full article: Does ISO 45001 address sexism?
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: Tipping point: Inoculating against critical performance errors
“Many organizations have not yet installed effective measures that actually get people thinking and executing correctly when it really counts,” says DEKRA Insight’s David Musgrave, who discusses new neuroscience-based ways to keep employees safe and unplanned events at bay.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Tipping point: Inoculating against critical performance errors
Source: Safety Leadership
Safety Leadership: The secrets to keeping workers safe on short-term projects
“The new year can bring additional short-duration or evolving work projects and, with them, a heap of unique obstacles to safety,” says Jim Spigener from DEKRA Insight, who shares “a better way to increase the behavioral reliability” at these worksites.
Full article: Safety Leadership: The secrets to keeping workers safe on short-term projects
Source: Safety Leadership
The art of the deal: Know how OSHA reaches settlements
OSHA has cut deals with employers and industry associations ever since the agency’s beginning. About one-third of cited employers don’t take OSHA’s deal. They just correct and pay. Will more of this group deal with OSHA in the future?
Full article: The art of the deal: Know how OSHA reaches settlements
Source: Safety Best Practices
OSHA’s Top 10 most-cited violations for fiscal year 2017
Which violation is making its first appearance on OSHA’s list of most-cited violations? Safety+Health presents the data on OSHA’s “Top 10” for fiscal year 2017. Also: A Q&A with Patrick Kapust, deputy director of the agency’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs.
Full article: OSHA’s Top 10 most-cited violations for fiscal year 2017
Source: Safety Info-Graphics
Safety Leadership: The risks with routine
Jill Wiltfong from DEKRA Insight speaks with Dr. Susan Koen – an expert on human reliability, workplace fatigue and high-performing work systems – about why performing the same tasks time and time again can contribute to failure to recognize changes and the associated risks.
Full article: Safety Leadership: The risks with routine
Source: Safety Leadership
Safety tips as mobile workers multiply
Lack of deep cleaning and other actions/inactions help unwanted guests in the room, such as bed-bugs and germs, to multiply and spread to bedding and even packed clothes.
Full article: Safety tips as mobile workers multiply
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Leadership: The value of observational safety feedback
What did DEKRA Insight learn when it partnered with a researcher to understand what aspects of the observation process had the greatest impact on safety performance? Gennifer Lyon explains.
Full article: Safety Leadership: The value of observational safety feedback
Source: Safety Leadership