The OSHA website, www.osha.gov , is both wonderful and confusing. Wonderful because it has lots of great occupational safety and health resources on it. Confusing because there’s far too much stuff on it (thousands of pages), and once you get familiar with it they seem to completely change it’s...
“The Inverse Relationship Between Confidence & Competence” There’s a big difference between being “competent” and having “confidence”. Over 40-years ago I was a newly minted college graduate with an advanced degree in occupational safety and health. I was extremely confident, maybe even cocky. I thought that I knew...
Can you spot the safety hazards, unsafe acts, and OSHA violations in the below photo? Jot down your answers, click on the photo, and compare your findings to ours. – – Click here to view other “Safety Photos Of The Week”
So you’re new the workplace safety and health occupation and want to learn more about OSHA and safety basics. Here’s a link to OSHA’s “Introduction To OSHA” webpage. It’s a must read for anyone who’s new to occupational safety in the United States. This page has information on: OSHA...
– Safety Accountability – “Insurance Chargeback Programs” A key to any injury and illness prevention program is accountability. It is through accountability that management motivates employees and gets things done. If you work for a company that has multiple locations and you are not charging back insurance related costs...
Below is this week’s “Safety App of the Week“. Every Monday we publish an article that reviews and rates a new workplace safety app. Our testing is done on Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3s. We rate each app from ♥ to ♥♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥♥ is the best). Prior app of the...
A key to any injury and illness prevention program is accountability. It is through accountability that management motivates employees, supervisors, managers and executives. Some companies hold their managers and supervisors accountable for their accident records. This is a “reactive” (after the fact) measure that is usually not as effective a...
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