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“Simply requesting that employees ‘remain situationally aware’ is not a strategy informed by science and will always be met with skepticism and flawed execution,” says Rajni Walia of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability. “We need to consider how we can improve situational awareness when it matters most.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Situational awareness and human performance
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OSHA’s serious injury and fatality reporting requirements have been in effect for four years. Don Martin of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability looks at the numbers and offers suggestions for improving the reporting system.

Full article: Safety Leadership: How to drive OSHA’s efforts to reduce workplace serious injuries and fatalities
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Arlington, VA — The Electrical Safety Foundation International has introduced several resources aimed at workers in “occupations that traditionally receive little to no electrical training.”

Full article: Electrical safety group unveils videos, infographics for workers in non-electrical jobs
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Controlling workplace exposures requires understanding the elements that lead to that exposure, says William Bozzo of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, who identifies seven.

Full article: Safety Leadership: Controlling seven areas of exposure
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“Companies that fail in safety often are those that limit their strategy to ‘quick-fix’ approaches with no long-term vision of what they’re aiming to achieve,” says Guillermo Díaz of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, who poses five questions to safety leaders.

Full article: Safety Leadership: Workplace safety requires leaders invested in the long run
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Washington — NIOSH, OSHA and the Center for Construction Research and Training – also known as CPWR – are offering a number of free online resources to help employers prepare for the sixth annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction, set to take place May 6-10.

Full article: Get ready for the National Safety Stand-Down: Free resources available
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“Safety planning isn’t exclusive to the workplace. Safety must also be practiced at home,” says Don Martin of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, who says employers should encourage employees to “practice behavior at work that reinforces safety at home whenever potential risk is at play.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Safety at home starts in the workplace
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“Organizations that implement oversimplified BBS systems are shortchanging themselves and their people,” says Jim Spigener of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, who encourages the use of system-focused BBS.

Full article: Safety Leadership: Why system-focused behavior-based safety is the real deal
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“Confirmation, overconfidence, sunk cost and optimism biases all are the results of the pleasure we feel when we’re right and the pain we feel when we’re wrong,” says Michael Mangan of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability. So what can leaders do to overcome them?

Full article: Safety Leadership: I can’t be wrong – can I?
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“What if the human vision system itself is a hazard within the workforce?” asks DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability’s Rajni Walia, who says that “despite the fact that so much of our brains are devoted to seeing, there’s no guarantee that we see correctly.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Seeing is suspect: What am I missing here?
Source: Safety Leadership