As Valentine's Day is upon us (and Happy Statehood Day to my friends down in Arizona), this is often seen as a holiday about love and acceptance and tolerance for others, not just those closest to us. It is said that we should also love our enemies as much as our friends, but sometimes that [...]
We're not trying to say this is going to be easy. But for the sake of the safety and health of your workers, you should at least think of this is very necessary. We can't keep doing what we're doing. James Loud says as much in his recent Professional Safety magazine article about major incidents in [...]
If it seems like I am spending an awful lot of blog time and space on James Loud's Professional Safety magazine piece regarding major workplace incidents. Well maybe I am, so what of it? Not to seem defensive, but I do think this is an important article and it deserves a full discussion and encouragement for [...]
James Loud was vociferous with his words in his recent Professional Safety magazine article that looked into possible reasons that the U.S. and Canada are experiencing higher risk of serious incidents at worksites, despite all the progress we have all made in reducing the number of incidents overall. I have been posting an in-depth look at Loud's [...]
While it's not a bad thing to acknowledge and honor the pioneer in our field, James Loud may be on to something if we give too much deference to trailblazers. Loud wrote an extensive, thought-provoking article in Professional Safety magazine recently, addressing the increasing risk of fatal incidents in work places in th U.S. and Canada. [...]
Perception is relative. And oftentimes, history adds context to perception. The perception we have is that yes, there are fewer incidents in our workplaces, even as we have many more workers than 40, 50, or even 100 years ago. Over the last century, the number of work-related deaths has dropped by 75 percent while the [...]
When it comes to incidents in the workplace, we have good news and bad news, though this news is not new as I have blogged about this before a while ago. The good news is, the numbers of workplace incidents have fallen dramatically over the last 100 years, and especially in the last 40 years [...]
Burnout is a common problem these days, and it is not something that can be left to the individual. Like a single flame in a dry forest, if you leave it alone it will affect and impact others around and that flame could grow into a conflagration that impacts the morale of an entire organization. [...]
Passion is often symbolized by fire or a flame. So it makes sense that when a worker or person experiences a lack or loss of passion for work or life, there is a term called "burnout." Burnout can be seen as an emotional disorder, where a person loses the emotional investment in his or her [...]
Forklifts aren't necessarily complex machines, but they do have several ways about them that make them dangerous to operate and requiring very specific guidelines and standards by which they should be operated and maintained. In this post, which is the final of a four-part series, we'll take a look at some strategies that employers can [...]
