“The way our brains are wired plays a key role in making work-related decisions that have significant safety implications,” says Matt Hargrove, a principal consultant at DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Why understanding brain-centered hazards matters for warehouse work
Source: Safety Leadership
Safety Leadership: Same technology, different outcomes
“Investing in technologies that monitor employees is an ever-increasing employer trend,” says Don Groover, senior vice president of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, who wants you to consider your motivations for installing monitoring devices.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Same technology, different outcomes
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Safety Leadership: Demonstrate your personal safety ethic
“Saying you value safety in the workplace and demonstrating it are two very different things,” says Steven Luttrull, vice president of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability.
Full article: Safety Leadership: Demonstrate your personal safety ethic
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Safety Leadership: Could focusing on SIF reduction be a mistake?
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
OSHA’s Top 10 most cited violations for 2019
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
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Salary Survey 2019
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
Safety Leadership: Moving the needle on worker engagement
“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
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Safety Leadership: Focusing on SIF potential is key to solving them
“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
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Safety Leadership: Understand brain functions to understand mistakes
“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
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Safety Leadership: Situational awareness and human performance
“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