Yesterday’s Advisor looked at some of the professions on the periphery of workplace safety who might have enough in common with safety professionals to feel like true colleagues, and who might help improve your job performance. When you improve your performance, you improve your career.
Today, we’ll look at two more groups of professionals whose interests might overlap with your own, and whose input might make you better at what you do:
Emergency responders. Don’t wait until something goes wrong to get to know your local emergency responders, both law enforcement and fire:
Law Enforcement
In workplace violence situations, the speed of law enforcement response affects how quickly any threat is brought to a close, so invite your local law enforcement professionals out to offer pointers on preventing and responding effectively to violence in the workplace.
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Fire Department
What capabilities does your local fire department have? Are they equipped to respond to the types of emergencies that might occur in your workplace? If you coordinate with your local fire department, they can tell you how to make emergency response easier and more effective. They may, for example, have you give them off-hours access via a Knox Box nondestructive emergency access system, or you could offer them a tour of your facility and a map so that when they arrive, they won’t have to waste time figuring out where to go. They may also be able to provide some types of training, such as fire extinguisher training, that your workers need.
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Workers’ Compensation Professionals
You may not know your workers’ compensation claims manager—and that could mean you’re doing your own job well!—but you should make the effort. Workers’ compensation professionals have their fingers on the pulse of what’s hurting workers, and what’s doing them the most long-term damage—as opposed to the types of injuries that are recordable, but not disabling, injuries that you might see most frequently—and they’ll have access to risk managers whose job it is to identify effective controls for those hazards. If you pick the brain of your workers’ compensation claims manager before you have a claim, you could improve your own performance and benefit your X-mod (experience modification).
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Whether it’s changes in OSHA requirements, news about innovative safety ideas, guidance for creating effective safety plans, or some other vital safety and health issue, you’ll find it all reported and interpreted for you by our safety experts at Safety.BLR.com.
What’s more, this one-stop safety website is a fantastic resource for safety training materials on just about any topic you can imagine.
Training responsibilities become a snap with the website’s thousands of audio presentations, PowerPoint® presentations, prewritten safety meetings, toolbox talks, trainer’s guides, and much, much more. You’ll find training tools on more than 120 safety topics, along with plain-English compliance analysis and other resources.
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- Side-by-Side State/Federal Compliance. By placing our state and federal regulatory analysis side by side, you easily see how to fully comply with both governmental entities.
- MSDS Library Expansion. The site now provides an immense library of 3.5 million MSDS and SDS forms, with about 10,000 more added or changed every week. Need one? Just call up the chemical by name, manufacturer, product group, or CAS number, and then print it out.
- Newsletter Wizard. If you’ve ever wanted to publish a safety newsletter but felt lacking in editorial skills, this new addition is for you.
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