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If trainees aren’t engaged in training, they aren’t learning what they need to know. Here’s how to tell if they’re engaged or disengaged. The difference between effective safety training that employees apply to their jobs and training that fails to have a positive impact depends on whether or not trainees are fully engaged in the […]
Hands-on simulations and other interactive training techniques play a critical role when conveying safety knowledge and demonstrating safe work behaviors in hazardous work environments, according to a new study. A new study conducted by researchers in the United States and Australia has found that for jobs where the likelihood of serious injury is highest, more […]
In a truly safe workplace everyone is accountable for preventing accidents and injuries. How about your workplace? Do you get an “A” for accountability? If you’re reviewing the structure and content of your safety and health process with an eye to improving effectiveness, you might want to take a look at accountability. How much responsibility […]
If a company conducts a proper accident investigation, it may be used as a basis for collecting data to find causes and prevent recurrences. This goal can only be achieved if the entire procedure is a fact-finding mission rather than a method for placing blame on someone. Avoiding blame is especially important when interviewing witnesses […]
Find out how UPS, the world’s largest package carrier, has built a more effective safety process and reaped the rewards of their effort in 40 percent fewer injuries. BLR’s OSHA Compliance Advisor recently spoke to Debbie Gehricke, director of global safety and health at UPS, and Emilio Lopez, director of fleet safety, to find out […]
At many companies, you will find that management just does not take safety seriously enough. They fail to understand the immediate costs and long-term effects of on-the-job accidents. These costs can include medical expenses, higher workers comp premiums, equipment repair, and personnel expenses. Then there are the undefined costs of low employee morale, retraining, loss […]
Since the goal of safety training programs is to equip and enable employees to work without incident or injury, you must evaluate your training’s effectiveness at achieving these goals. Indeed, in OSHA’s Seven-Step Voluntary Training Guidelines, Step 6 is “Evaluating Program Effectiveness.” Here’s what the OSHA Guidelines recommend: “To make sure that the training program […]
Wouldn’t it be great to learn everything there is to know about preventing accidents at your worksite? Unfortunately, in these days of advancing technologies and new equipment and materials, it’s almost an impossible task. That’s why a supervisor should concentrate on acquiring, at a minimum, a good working knowledge of the following eleven building blocks […]
Estimates on domestic violence cases number in the millions every year. What can you do when one of those cases involves your workplace? Here’s a true story about domestic violence and what you can do to help employee victims. When an employee at one company was being harassed by an ex-boyfriend some years back, the […]
Gary Findley, Safety Director for Grand Package Corp., was concerned when he heard that the company’s workers compensation insurance carrier wanted to conduct a safety audit of the plant. “Don’t worry,” the president of Grand Package reassured him. “It’s not as if we’re having an OSHA inspection. The insurance company is coming here to help […]