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 [...]
There isn't anything entirely fool-proof when it comes to protecting us on the worksite from hazardous chemicals, smoke, vapors and other potential harm. Nothing is perfect, but having much of the protection we are expected to use certainly is manifold times better than going without. There are challenges with some complex environments where there are [...]
This is the Era of the Victim, or the Era of the Oppressed. But you know, many of the so-called "victims" are only victims of their own ignorance and arrogance. Some victims - like those of rape, robbery, assault, fraud - have legitimate grievances, while others only have it in their own heads that they [...]
Technology has reached a new dimension, and so does safety. That dimension is the third, as in three dimensions, or 3D. The 3D movie and TV technology has been around for decades, and has continually been refined so that we don't need those dopey red-and-blue paper glasses to watch a 3D movie on in the [...]
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