I know what you are thinking. You just had a safety audit, or you at least just had a meeting with your new safety officer and you have been going over your safety record over the past year or three, and you are flummoxed. You are going through your records, and while you are trying [...]
We have written before in this space, and I have talked about this in some of my seminars, workshops and even when I conduct workplace audits, about the importance of having happy workers and employees. Happy workers lead to more productive workers and workers who are more safety conscious and thus less injury-prone. I have [...]
We all love calendars. They can be very effective at managing our days, our weeks, our months and all of the routine things we do at work. We pay bills a certain day every month. We conduct safety checks the same week of every month or the same day every week.The company has donuts in [...]
In order to have a business operating, every owner has to have a selection of paperwork, or at least records. Some are for tax purposes, some for accounting purposes, some for regulatory purposes and others just for personal knowledge and information. These can include everything about yoru business, from income and expense reports, invoice and [...]
It is said that the only thing that is constant is change. [Image courtesy of Matt Brown from Flickr via a Creative Commons license]Change is virtually inevitable - every day is new. Yet we humans don't take well to changes and we generally get stressed. How can companies manage the stress when change in [...]
Leadership - at least, good leadership - is hard to come by. Leadership is a way of life, a characteristic - it's not something that just comes with a fancy leadership title. We all know people who are leaders among the rank-and-file, and we know people in leadership positions who just don't have what it [...]
Excessive speed is often a factor in many car accidents, though admittedly rarely the only factor. However, speed limits on many roads and highways have generally done well to lower accident rates and thus fatality rates in motor vehicles over the decades. While the numbers are still pretty high because there are still people who [...]
As you might expect with the European Union, or most any multinational government agency, a very significantly data-intensive report was released recently. [Courtesy of EladeManu from Flickr via a Creative Commons license]The theory that comes out of a recent EU-OSHA study is that women are more at risk for workplace incidents than men, which [...]
Have you ran or wanted to run a marathon? OK, those of you who are truly crazy and raised your hands, go away now. [Image courtesy of Grand Velas Puerto Vallarta from Flickr via a Creative Commons license]Finding way to relax and take away the stresses of the day go a long way in [...]
There is one apparent epidemic in European workplaces that has not been vaccinated yet, and it appears to be creating a real employment and productivity crisis across the pond. The real question might be, can this virus make its way over here? [Image courtesy of EU-OSHA on Flickr via a Creative Commons license]After a [...]
