Yes, you noticed the shorter headline, didn't you? Unlike my ongoing blogs in October about all kinds of safety briefs, this month's installment will be just this post. I cannot promise that I won't have more later in the month, but these are the last ones currently on my desk that I really should get [...]
In business, there is a crisis, and there is an emergency. Based on the size of your business, an emergency can happen every few years, or it could happen every week. It all comes down to perspective. [Image courtesy of Jessica Lea/DFID - UK Department of International Development from Flickr, via a Creative Commons [...]
Safety is truly all about accountability. Whether we like it or not. There is no better indicator of accountability than when a worker is safe, or when there is an incident that causes injury or death. Either way, accountability can be given to all, or it can be investigated and discovered. Sometimes accountability is necessary [...]
Leadership is something I have written about here several times, thanks to the great work by Robert Pater, who is a regular contributor to Professional Safety magazine on the topics of safety leadership and safety culture. Leadership can be a natural characteristic fo some people, but it also can be something that is learned and taught [...]
Those of you who have read this blog before know me. I tend to be a bit sarcastic and witty (if I do say so myself) about most topics regarding safety - mostly to keep people entertained to read the valuable information this blog provides. When it comes to workplace violence, however, I will tend [...]
OK, I know, this whole safety briefs thing has developed a mind of its own. I promise though that this will be the last batch for now - as I wrote in a previous post, I happen to be doing some fall cleaning, so I am catching up on some items that probably should have [...]
As this is now the third installment of safety briefs submitted to you this month (yes, my desk was cluttered so I did some fall cleaning - so sue me!), I will not bore you with much of an introduction. Let's pretty much get to it! Climate Change = Health Effects? Whether you believe in [...]
It is not often that Safety Snippets happen to come in two installments. Wait, never mind that. This is unprecedented. Every once in a while, even I don't mind when my little blog makes a little history. In the previous post, I started cleaning off my desk by adding a couple of brief safety items, [...]
We get to the first full month of fall (and Canadian Thanksgiving month - let us all be thankful!), and we get to start the month with a couple of safety briefs - actually, a couple of installments. Maybe we can call this doing our housekeeping a little early. Sadly, though, while it is fall, [...]
Safety truly is a 24-hour job, 7 days a week, including holidays. Safety officers feel this way about their jobs, but often the workers do not share the same mentality. Often it is understood in workplaces that safety is all about the workplace, so many safety initiatives, rules and protocols are left at home when [...]
