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Don Groover and Don Martin of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability discuss why, “when the concept of exposure reduction is not understood and safety maturity is low, a change in direction can have serious unintended consequences.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Could focusing on SIF reduction be a mistake?
Source: Safety Leadership

Safety+Health presents the data on OSHA’s “Top 10” for fiscal year 2019. 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 2019
Source: Safety Info-Graphics

The results of Safety+Health’s 2019 Salary Survey are in, including data broken out by job title, experience, region and more. How does your salary stack up?

Full article: Salary Survey 2019
Source: Safety Info-Graphics

“Involved employees” and “engaged employees”: William Bozzo and Donald Groover of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability break down why these terms “are sometimes used interchangeably but are quite different.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Moving the needle on worker engagement
Source: Safety Leadership

“Our research and client experience has shown that about 25% of OSHA recordable events have realistic serious injury and fatality exposure potential,” says Don Martin of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability.

Full article: Safety Leadership: Focusing on SIF potential is key to solving them
Source: Safety Leadership

“There is no silver bullet for eliminating all error from the workplace,” says Michael Mangan of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability. “However, organizations can put strong defenses in place.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Understand brain functions to understand mistakes
Source: Safety Leadership

“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
Source: Safety Leadership

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
Source: Safety Leadership

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
Source: Safety Info-Graphics

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
Source: Safety Leadership