Barb shares her top three ways: 1. Design systems to prevent injuries before they happen 2. Create an inter-disciplinary force to weed out incidents 3. Build in systems and plan for catastrophies
My role is the health and safety consultant or The Cat in the Hat. When I was a young girl I loved the story of The Cat in the Hat, the cat balancing 50 to 100 multicolored very beautiful hats on his head and getting into all sorts of trouble. Health and safety entrepreneurs are [...]
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 [...]
Organizations are composed of people, equipment, tools and processes. Organizations have to have a balance between all of these elements in order to improve their health and safety readiness. Human beings have to have the right attitude and behaviors in order to practice health and safety. Sometimes though the attitude isn’t there but the behavior [...]
