Social nocebo1 is a contagious illness that impacts upwards of one-quarter of people who encounter it. Conditions are ripe for a rise of social nocebo in the workplace. The following are key actions that occupational safety and health pros must take to anticipate, recognize, evaluate and control social nocebo.
Full article: Self-diagnosis can lead to employee health complaints
Source: Safety Best Practices
Jim Spigener from DEKRA Insight discusses how, as oil prices make a comeback, “leaders who don’t get in front of the upswing and include safety in the rebuild will likely find themselves in a losing game of catch-up.”
Full article: Safety Leadership: Safety on the upswing
Source: Safety Leadership
Ivanka Trump’s upcoming (May 2017) book, “Women who work: Rewriting the Rules for Success” contains an unwritten message for the demographic mean 53-year-old male OSH pro: “you need to change with the times.”
Full article: Time to rewrite safety rules
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety Health shares seven tips from veteran safety professionals Carl Potter and Richard Hawk on making safety committee meetings more enjoyable, with added emphasis on embracing variety and even fun.
Full article: 7 tips for an effective workplace safety committee
Source: Safety Info-Graphics
Don Grover from DEKRA Insight discusses the challenge of “understanding what safe decision-making looks like and how to develop and deploy it systematically.”
Full article: Safety Leadership: Decision-making and safer outcomes
Source: Safety Leadership
Compliance bias is the belief that U.S. government mandates such as OSHA regulations are sufficient for most organizations to achieve injury and illness prevention objectives. This bias is outdated and dead wrong.
Full article: We’re blinded by compliance bias
Source: Safety Best Practices
Jim Spigener from DEKRA Insight discusses how, “In many forms, BBS is an elegant, sound and proven approach. But success begins with knowing what your organization really needs.”
Full article: Safety Leadership: Is behavior-based safety really washed up?
Source: Safety Leadership
The ultimate goal of safety analytics is to predict injuries so they can be prevented. Analytics find patterns and relationships in data that can reliably mitigate a problem or reproduce a success.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Safety analytics – Building your team
Source: Safety Leadership
2017 will be a particularly challenging year for occupational safety and health program improvement.
Full article: 2017 will be a challenging year for pros
Source: Safety Best Practices
Safety+Health presents OSHA’s most frequently cited violations for fiscal year 2016. Also: the annual “penalty box” detailing the year’s largest fines, and an exclusive interview with Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement.
Full article: 2016 OSHA’s Top 10 Most Cited Violations
Source: Safety Info-Graphics
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