Every once in a while, as I go through the many articles and research studies about workplace and occupational health and safety, I come across an item that is kind of fun and interesting - if only tangentially related to workplace safety. [Image courtesy of Marina del Castell from Flickr via a Creative Commons [...]
In a previous post, I wrote about the concept of safety-training videos, discussed their benefits and tried to bust the primary obstacle to making safety-training videos, and why it may be useful to make your own instead of using stock video training resources. Now that we've given you the tools and ammunition to approach you [...]
Between you, me, and the confines of this space, we can all admit ... outside of those of us in the safety bubble, safety programs, procedures and protocols we have to teach our workers come across like a lead balloon. Not sexy, in other words. I certainly know it can be tough to get people [...]
Safety programs are quite diverse - about as diverse as the industries in which safety standards, protocols and programs are instituted. And how effective each safety program seems to also vary according to the inherent risks of the industry and work site, as well as the language and cultural barriers of the various employees and [...]
Dust just loves keyboards. It's kind of like modern-day kids in that sense. Kids love pushing buttons, and keyboards are all about the buttons. Dust has seemed to be a common enemy of all computer devices and other electrical items like television sets, desktops, tablets, refrigerators and the like. And since no one wants to [...]
Men and women who can drive tractor-trailers and long-haul trucks are in seriously high demand, and for plenty of reasons. There has been a certain romanticism about trucking that has developed over the last few decades, and in some ways it can be very rewarding work. [Image courtesy of Anthony Easton from Flickr, via [...]
When around water, safety experts can tend to drone on about life jackets and other personal flotation devices (PFDs) - and there seems to be evidence every year that the advice isn't always heeded, as witnessed by the number of drowning deaths on America's water ways due to people being thrown overboard and not having [...]
Everyone knows that hazardous materials and chemicals are dangerous and require a special safety program entirely separate from the safety program on the work site. Over the years, as more and more hazardous chemicals and materials are stored, used, handled and shipped, much of the safety compliance has seemed to be blurred or clouded. In [...]
Since the Great Recession of 2008, the economy has been slow to recover, but it has recovered. It has been recovering in the sense that many companies who laid off millions of workers who had full-time salaries and benefits, have been working with thousands of temporary workers to do some of the work that has [...]
We have all become familiar with the term "attorney-client privilege," right? After all, either we have been sued, done the suing or know someone who has been in a legal wrangle for any number of reasons. While attorney-client privilege is considered sacred in the court system, as a term it can be thrown around a [...]
