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How to comprehensively review your safety measures with a three-phase approach

September 1, 2021

Performance Safety can be defined as an on-going review of processes, procedures, and practices through observation, workplace examinations, and task analysis.

Safety’s identity crisis: It’s time to focus on principles, not programs

Randy DeVaul

August 27, 2021

A priority changes with circumstances. A value remains constant, regardless of circumstances. Safety is a value. If integrated into the process, procedures, and practices, safety will not be the first to go when budgets are cut or when time pressures push for compromise.

Fueling safety culture improvement and SIF prevention with BBS 2.0

Josh Williams, Ph.D

August 25, 2021

Although workplace incident rates have steadily declined by 28% over the last decade, rates for serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs) have remained virtually unchanged.

Breathing new life into Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) programs

Dave Johnson

July 6, 2021

Behavior-based safety (BBS) has been widely implemented for more than 40 years to help improve safety performance and prevent serious injuries and fatalities (SIFs). There are several factors that have driven the popularity of BBS.

Cority Enviance offers free 6-month license to ergonomics software amid COVID-19 pandemic

April 23, 2020

RSIGuard provides remote office workers with behavior-based training and tools on healthy, productive work habits.

Asking questions leads to improved performance

Closing Time

Asking questions leads to improved worker performance

T.H.A.N.K.S. for the feedback

Timothy Ludwig Ph.D.

February 3, 2020

We had just witnessed a large toolbox talk at a mining construction site in Africa. It wasn’t a bad session; the safety officers were loud and lively in their statements, there was some humor and even the safety manager from the general contractor stepped in to say a couple words.

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December 12, 2019

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Don’t get caught in the numbers game

Measuring & rewarding

Dr John Kello

December 3, 2019

The president of the Association for Psychological Science recently published a column titled, “The Publication Arms Race.” Dr. Lisa Feldman Barret’s central point is that we professors are rewarded mainly for our publications, and mainly for the quantity of those publications.

Honeywell Industrial Life Safety Training Center offers immersive hands-on experience

November 20, 2019

ISHN recently visited Honeywell’s Industrial Life Safety Training Center/Customer Experience Center in Pasadena, TX, to get some first-hand fall protection training and updates on the company’s hearing protection and gas detection lines.

Dig deeper into system factors behind at-risk actions

Discuss intentions,Not behaviors

E. Scott Geller

November 2, 2019

Most readers are familiar with the common phrase, “The errors of our ways.“ So why am I talking about the intention of our ways -- not errors – in this article?