Getting buy in from workers on wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) means a culture shift. First you have to have champions. There will always be early adopters to personal protective equipment and you want to gain your champions and work with the champions to create positive peer pressure that will enforce the laggards to comply. [...]
I am often asked by safety professionals, “What do I do if I don’t have senior management commitment?” Well, you have to talk to management in terms they understand and there are four areas you can attack this common threat that health and safety people run against. You want to talk financial. You want to [...]
Barb shares a practice she calls the “two-tier orientation system”. The first tier consists of training new employees only on legislative requirements. After completing this tier of training, she recommends asking the new employee if they are still interested in staying with the company before rolling out the second tier which will be a more [...]
I'm pleased to announce my new video regarding successful Core Audits on the Home Page of Purcell Enterprises Ltd.
You should do a hazard assessment in your organization very simply to prevent incidents and losses from happening. Hazard assessments are one of the most powerful tools for ensuring this happens. Now, hazard assessments are very complex and usually the most common hazard assessments that are done are field level risk assessments and job safety [...]
Barb explains four things to know regarding contractor health and safety.
