Are safety officers leaders, or managers? What about supervisors? Managers? Are thy also leaders, or are they more managers? Do we even dare ask about the C-suite? We can admit it, in many ways managing is a bit easier than leading. But the latter is more needed when it comes to safety in a workplace. [...]
One of the keys to success that is talked about in many circles is to read and learn - a lot. The amount of success can be correlated to the voraciousness of reading non-fiction books, whether they are historical, biographical, self-improvement, financial or business books. In safety, having leadership is a secret to success. The [...]
Recently, Professional Safety magazine did a quick question-and-answer profile about Louise Vallee, who is serving as chairman of the mentorship program led by the ASSE Women in Safety Engineering Common Interest Group. As you might imagine, safety engineering is one of those fields that you can say is male-dominant. Women have made some inroads in the last [...]
Those who have been loyal to this blog, you know what is post is about. For those who are relatively new, I welcome you to a Safety Snippet blog post. These are a recurring theme here, as short news items of importance to safety professionals come across my desk, and individual items are not long [...]
Workers are different, both individually and as a collective. This is why, in the art of safety discipline, it is importaatnt to have several tools in your toolbox to effect the necessary discipline - and there has to be a willingness to use any of the tools at any given time. Christopher Goulart wrote an [...]
Christopher Goulart developed an important article in a recent issue of Professioanal Safety magazine that discussed a lost art of discipline in workplaces in regards to overall worker safety. We have been drilling down into this article in a series of posts, which go from the importance of discipline in workplaces, the tools at our disposal [...]
We safety officers know. We've been through the drill. It is always one thing to have a safety protocol in place on your worksite, down to the very last detail. It's a whole other thing to get and keep human beings to execute the protocol correctly every time. Humans are complicated creatures. Getting workers to stick [...]
Much of safety is about discipline. Protocols, guidelines and programs are really only on paper - it takes good manager and worker discipline to turn the paper into practice and keep workers safe while on the job (and in some cases, at home too). Discipline is inherent with many workers, but not everyone is so [...]
Safety is about the most important thing for any business or organization. And while human nature is to rebel against structure that is too strict, the best safety programs are ones that have an inherent rate of discipline among workers. Discipline comes in many difeerent forms, and no organization or company should ever have just [...]
Healthcare workers are some of the hardest-working and yet underappreciated givers on our planet. Most of the work they do is to help and serve others who are in various states of disorder - from pneumonia or high fever to high blood pressure to cancer and gunshot wounds. Whenever someone is in trouble, healthcare workers [...]
