It's time to put on our briefs! Let's hope that is the raciest I will ever get here. Every month, our friends at Professional Safety magazine post some handy safety briefs that are informative and useful for many safety officers in North America. Some are reminders, some are advisories, and some are just specific little tidbits [...]
Communication is always the secret to effective safety in any worksite. While words themselves - written or spoken - do not necessarily cause incidents or injuries directly, a lack of effective communication can certainly lead to such problems if not handled and addressed in an effective manner. Communication is so important, there is an OSHA [...]
Many of us learned how to read when we were little. We were able to practice with our parents the concept of sounding out letters, syllables and words to be able to read whole sentences. And then whole paragraphs. We smile at the accomplishment of getting through a Dr. Seuss book reading flawlessly. But as [...]
Water can be a vital tool or cause of issues in safety. It is as prevalent in our world as the air we breathe. It has tremendous versatility in terms of the many ways that it can be used to benefit us and to harm us if mishandled. It is considered one of the four [...]
Safety should always be permanent in workplaces, even those with temporary or contract workers. While temps might not be part of your regular payroll, they are not less human than your staff, and safety can be every bit as important (and should be) for everyone on a job site, regardless of a worker's employment status. [...]
So when is an accident not an accident? It is a matter of semantics and understanding the definition. For those who read this blog loyally, you know that I tend to use the word "incident" far more than I use the word "accident." There are some in the public or among safey professionals who can [...]
Now, we are grinding to a halt. So to speak. Over the last week, I have been going over a recent article in the November 2015 issue of Professional Safety magazine that discussed best safety practices when operating and working around an abrasive wheel grinder, which is so common in certain worksites where repairs and manufacturing [...]
Sometimes, a plurality is enough - a majority isn't needed. We all want to believe that in voting, the majority will be the winner. But when you have more than two parties involved, more than two candidates, all with their own viable platforms, it's very difficult to imagine any one of them getting more than [...]
Maintaining and manufacturing safety is a full-time job virtually anywhere. But when there is a single piece of machinery that can cause a tremendous amount of human damage, safety professionals like us need to pay attention. And it happens to be a tool that is common machinery, maintaining and manufacturing many notable risks to human [...]
Believe it or not, safety does not sound cool to the younger generation. Chances are decent that the word "safety" might be spoken around teenagers, but what they hear is "parents controlling your every move so you stay alive, which means we do nothing fun." Those of us who have or have had to raise [...]
