A strong safety culture promotes more than just safety. It cultivates worker confidence and retention, benefits organizational behavior, and can even increase productivity. According to OSHA, developing a strong safety culture has the single greatest impact on accident reduction of any process. So, how do you create and maintain your safety culture for your organization? […]
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In a healthy safety culture all personnel share the same responsibility for safe work. Management AND the labor workforce must both support the safety culture, even though they have different perspectives. In this blog, we share the perspectives of both roles and offer a tips for working together to achieve a safety culture! The Management […]
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Robert Jones took over his father’s industrial based company a few years ago. When he became president of the company, he implemented internal training in safety aspects, became a proponent of vigilant supervision and even had to resort to the threat of punishment for non-compliance. These methods all worked. His company did become safer. But, […]
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Let us start with a definition: Axiom: an established rule or principle or a self-evident truth! In 1931 Herbert William Heinrich published his book Industrial Accident Prevention, A Scientific Approach. In the book, the author created the 10 Axioms of Industrial Safety. Although some of his findings that were published in his book have been disputed […]
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We all know how important safety is to your workplace. It keeps things running smoothly, manages risk, creates trust with your clients, and most importantly prevents injuries and accidental deaths. You can’t build or sustain a workplace that values safety all on your own. It has to be a culture. Merriam Webster defines culture as: […]
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Are your worksite safety policies ambiguous? This article may help you to avoid this issue. Have you ever attempted to perform work that has a certain level of risk and found out that the safety and health management system does not have a policy reviewing the risk and corrective measures to take? Or if a […]
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