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Safety is a process, and as such, needs to be managed. This section offers resources to create a viable safety program, sell it to senior management, train supervisors and employees in using it, and then track and report your progress. Look also for ways to advance your own skills in these areas, both for your current job, and those that follow.
It’s reported that unhealthy workers cost employers billions every year. NIOSH has some ideas for developing programs and policies that can improve worker health and cut costs. Full-time workers in the United States who are overweight or obese and have other chronic health conditions miss about 450 million more days per year than healthy workers. […]
Which EHS activities should you focus on when developing reliable metrics? It depends on your goals and what you want to accomplish. The items listed here provide some examples. Here are some suggestions from Michael D. Lawrence, who presents the BLR webinar "EHS Metrics: How To Measure What Matters Most To Drive Safety In Your […]
So, why do you need metrics anyway? What can you do with them once you have them? “What gets measured, gets done,” says Michael D. Lawrence, of Summit Safety Technologies and speaker of BLR’s upcoming webinar “EHS Metrics: How to Measure What Matters Most To Drive Safety in Your Organization.” The webinar is on Wednesday, […]
If you’re relying on safe work rules to protect employees, make sure the rules are reliable. This story is based on a real court case. The names have been changed, of course, and the dialogue is imagined, what might have been said. The issues and the outcome, however, are all too real. Many workers side-step […]
If workers take a “rules are for fools” attitude, and supervisors turn a blind eye, you could end up paying for their deficient safety attitude. This story is based on a real court case. The names have been changed, of course, and the dialogue is imagined, what might have been said. The issues and the […]
How much time and productivity are you losing to employee aches and pains? What’s it costing your business? Probably more than you think. p>On any given day, millions of employees work through their aches and pains, some job-related, some not. Sore backs, aching necks, and stiff knees plague workers of all ages. It’s a big […]
Here are some frequently asked questions about OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP). Q. Who benefits from VPP? A. OSHA says that the foremost beneficiaries of the VPP are workers who, at day’s end, arrive home safe and healthy to families and who feel safer on the job. But there are lots of benefits to go […]
OSHA maintains that it’s not just a regulatory enforcement agency, but also a promoter of efforts to improve occupational safety and health through programs such as VPP. Working with industry and labor, OSHA created the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) in 1982 to recognize and partner with worksites that implement what OSHA terms "exemplary" systems to […]
Yesterday, we talked about color-coding requirements for safety signs and tags. Today, we briefly review OSHA’s specifications for workplace signs and tags. OSHA specifications for safety signs and tags apply to the design, application, and use of signs or symbols intended to indicate and define specific workplace hazards. They do not apply to plant bulletin […]
Employees need to know what the different colors you use on safety signs and tags mean in terms of the hazards and levels of danger they may face. Your color-coding system should be among the important elements covered in safety training and orientation programs. All employees who face physical or health hazards on the job […]