Super Bowl Teaches OHS Programs Crucial Lessons
With Super Bowl Sunday quickly approaching, what better time to tackle my favorite topics: Sports? Occupational Health and Safety? Game on.Just like the Patriots and the Seahawks in the Super Bowl,...
View ArticleCure Delusional Safety Disorder to Keep Program on Track
Does someone you know suffer from Delusional Safety Disorder? This common condition can lead to recordable injuries and increased DART rates if left untreated. Learn about the symptoms and find out how...
View ArticleStrategic Safety Professionals Observe, Control, and Predict
Everything is easy when you’re not the one actually doing it, right? If fantasy could become reality, we would all have that easy button on our desks.Problem? BAM! Button pushed, problems solved.As...
View ArticleCan Incident Management Software Replace Safety Professionals?
Did Excel spreadsheets replace safety professionals? Did the establishment of OSHA standards replace safety professionals? Did online safety checklists replace safety professionals? Did Microsoft Word...
View ArticleIt Takes a Strategic Thinker to be an EHS Professional
I have the honor of frequently interacting with talented safety and health professionals. They have a comprehensive understanding of the exposures unique to their work environments and this knowledge...
View ArticleSafety Identity Begins with Awareness – Here’s What’s Next
“Has your organization found its safety identity?” This question even causes the most seasoned safety professional to pause and ponder.We live and operate in a real world. Organizations want to...
View ArticleUnlock Your Health & Safety Potential Using Software
In today’s technology-driven world, many aspects of an organization can be managed better by people using software. We have seen it in the HR arena with the introduction of payroll and performance...
View ArticleEmpower All Employees by Improving Workplace Safety
My responsibilities as an EHS consultant with UL include sharing workplace safety trends with our staff and clients.This particular piece caught my eye. Back in 2011, Kimberley-Clark surveyed National...
View ArticleEHS and Loss Control: Forging a Partnership
Having worked in both corporate safety and insurance loss control, I am amazed at the disconnect that occurs between these synergistic disciplines. It’s certainly a waste when you consider that they...
View Article5 Things Safety Leaders Do to Make Employees Mock Safety
A fellow youth hockey parent sent me an article entitled, “7 Things Parents Do to Make Their Kids Hate Sports,” by Mark Merrill.I have met parents who do at least some of these things; some of them do...
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