When an occupational health and safety officer comes to your work site that is usually part of an inspection blitz or there has been a complaint to the organization by one of your employees or the unthinkable has happened – you had an incident and you are involved in damage control. You should always extend [...]
Barb shares why noise abatement strategy is so important for a health and safety program.
Getting buy in from workers on wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) means a culture shift. First you have to have champions. There will always be early adopters to personal protective equipment and you want to gain your champions and work with the champions to create positive peer pressure that will enforce the laggards to comply. [...]
I am often asked by safety professionals, “What do I do if I don’t have senior management commitment?” Well, you have to talk to management in terms they understand and there are four areas you can attack this common threat that health and safety people run against. You want to talk financial. You want to [...]
