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Habits of a good life

You can build them at work

Dr. Grainne Matthews

June 1, 2016

The following is excerpted from Dr. Grainne Matthews' keynote speech at the Behavioral Safety Now 2015 Conference.

Choosing the right emergency safety showers and eye/facewash stations for every situation

Steve Willock

June 1, 2016

There’s an old saying that the ‘tail should never wag the dog’ and sometimes, in the increasingly litigious world of workplace health and safety, we need to take a step back and consider if the drive for compliance to standards is driving emergency safety showers and eye/facewash manufacturers to develop their products to meet standards rather than the needs of a casualty in an emergency situation.

Consider fit, hazards & fatigue to protect feet

Jessica Merel

June 1, 2016

Most of us spend more time standing on our feet than thinking about them, and even less time taking care of them.

Don’t let your Lockout/Tagout training lapse

Testing & reevaluating your program is essential

Eric Prinzing

June 1, 2016

The purpose of this article is to provide a brief overview of Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) training, and to provide tips to make this training effective and efficient.

Hot conditions stress older works

Mike Stearns

June 1, 2016

Studies show that older workers are more susceptible to negative consequences from heat exposure, and building this understanding into a workplace heat illness prevention program is imperative to creating a robust plan.

Evaporative cooling draws heat from your body

Alsie Nelson

June 1, 2016

You don’t have to be sweatin’ to the oldies or your favorite Richard Simmons DVD to generate heat. Actions as unconscious as breathing generate heat as part of the metabolism, the process of breaking down food for energy and rebuilding our bodies.

Gas detection Gets smart

Four innovations make compliance almost automatic

Praveen Sharma

June 1, 2016

Chicago Fire Chief Bob Anthony oversees Chicago’s fleet of 240 gas monitors and breathing apparatus.

Here are three image-based safety training activities

Linda Tapp, CSP, ALCM

June 1, 2016

If someone has the choice to look at an image in an effort to gain understanding of something, or read a paragraph or more of text, the visual option will be much more inviting.

Will terror strike your workplace?

Fear of terrorism far exceeds the actual risk – but if you see something, say something

Chip Dawson

June 1, 2016

It’s New Year’s morning and I’ve just finished my local newspaper. The front page is about a 25-year-old Rochester man arrested in a reported ISIS-inspired plot to abduct or kill patrons in a neighborhood bar on New Years Eve.1

Safety culture – it doesn’t exist

It’s more correct to talk about a risk culture

Corrie Pitzer

June 1, 2016

"The concept of organizational culture is hard to define, hard to analyze and measure, and hard to manage," Schein states in the preface of his 1992 book (p. xi).