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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?
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Which violation is making its first appearance on OSHA’s annual list of most-cited violations? Safety+Health presents the data on OSHA’s “Top 10” for fiscal year 2018. Also: An exclusive 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 2018
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“As with most seemingly simple questions, the answer is more complex,” say DEKRA Insight’s Don Groover and Rick Smith, who contend that “one important point to understand … is where the organization is on its safety journey.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: How much time ‘should’ leaders spend on safety?
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“When the job market tilts in favor of workers … how do you keep your best people?” asks DEKRA Insight’s Don Groover, who outlines four steps leaders can take to swiftly and effectively “stop the hemorrhaging.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Retaining talent in a tight labor market
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The results of Safety+Health’s 2018 Salary Survey are in, featuring data broken out by job title, experience, region and more. How does your salary stack up?

Full article: Salary Survey 2018
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Full article: Safety Leadership: Time to evolve: What the modern safety program needs to address
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