Aris Industries

Your plan must be based on your organization’s vision for future safety performance. Frame it as a set of actions that will: Further a safety culture change from reactive to proactive, provide the functioning capability to lead the change, and provide governance requirements to sustain the change.

Full article: Improving Safety Performance: Having an actionable safety plan
Source: Safety Best Practices

There’s a great imbalance between the two inseparable forces of safety and health. This imbalance is evident in Table I. The CSP® and the CIH® are the top safety and health credentials in our field. Both pre-date OSHA, and both have grown in quality and value over the years.

Full article: The benefits of holding CSP® & CIH® certifications
Source: Safety Best Practices

Old pros were trapped in a prescriptive career- the OSHA regulation says this, now do it. Doing it took nearly all of the pro’s time. There was little time for best practices. The old pros did, however, build great foundations upon which young pros may leap from compliance practices to conformance objectives.

Full article: Guidance for young OHS pros
Source: Safety Best Practices

I approached a couple of employees, and asked if one of them would volunteer to wear an air sampling pump. One employee, “If you tell me who you voted for president, I might wear the pump.” I knew at that point that I’d get some honest results from industrial hygiene (IH) sampling.

Full article: Behavior-based exposure sampling
Source: Safety Best Practices