Leadership is something I have written about here several times, thanks to the great work by Robert Pater, who is a regular contributor to Professional Safety magazine on the topics of safety leadership and safety culture. Leadership can be a natural characteristic fo some people, but it also can be something that is learned and taught [...]
Those of you who have read this blog before know me. I tend to be a bit sarcastic and witty (if I do say so myself) about most topics regarding safety - mostly to keep people entertained to read the valuable information this blog provides. When it comes to workplace violence, however, I will tend [...]
OK, I know, this whole safety briefs thing has developed a mind of its own. I promise though that this will be the last batch for now - as I wrote in a previous post, I happen to be doing some fall cleaning, so I am catching up on some items that probably should have [...]
As this is now the third installment of safety briefs submitted to you this month (yes, my desk was cluttered so I did some fall cleaning - so sue me!), I will not bore you with much of an introduction. Let's pretty much get to it! Climate Change = Health Effects? Whether you believe in [...]
It is not often that Safety Snippets happen to come in two installments. Wait, never mind that. This is unprecedented. Every once in a while, even I don't mind when my little blog makes a little history. In the previous post, I started cleaning off my desk by adding a couple of brief safety items, [...]
We get to the first full month of fall (and Canadian Thanksgiving month - let us all be thankful!), and we get to start the month with a couple of safety briefs - actually, a couple of installments. Maybe we can call this doing our housekeeping a little early. Sadly, though, while it is fall, [...]
Safety truly is a 24-hour job, 7 days a week, including holidays. Safety officers feel this way about their jobs, but often the workers do not share the same mentality. Often it is understood in workplaces that safety is all about the workplace, so many safety initiatives, rules and protocols are left at home when [...]
There are a few safety briefs that have crossed my desk recently, so I won't bother you with a long introduction. We'll get right to it, because these briefs are varied and impact a number of industries, so y'all better pay attention! [Image courtesy of Flickr user morebyless via a Creative Commons license] [...]
We all know that confined spaces have very high risks to safety on a worksite. We know that is a generational thing; confined spaces were often accepted as part of the job in many industries, and the idea of having uniform standards of safety didn't seem possible 30 years ago. Alas, though there has been [...]
It is said that the only thing that is constant is change. And in many ways it's true. We often change our clothes, change the day of the week, change our hair, change our jobs, change our family, and the list goes on and on. Many of us can often answer "what?" about change. We [...]
