Category: Special Topics in Safety Management

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.

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New Safety Signage Requirements Q & A

As the revised safety signage rules go into effect, you may have questions about how the changes will affect your workplace. Here are some Fads that can help. Today’s Q & A is presented courtesy of Clarion Safety Systems, LLC, the leading designer and manufacturer of visual safety solutions that help customers in more than […]

How Does OSHA’s New Signage Rules Affect Your Workplace?

In September, OSHA issued a direct final rule revising requirements for workplace safety signs. Find out what the changes mean to you. The goal of the new rule is to create a single, national uniform system of hazard recognition. OSHA believes that such consistency will create more effective communication, which in turn, should help achieve […]

Barriers to Business Value of EHS

Yesterday, we talked about how identifying your organization’s value drivers and linking EHS programs to specific business values can help you promote safety and health in your organization. Today, we identify barriers to the successful achievement of that goal. EPA identified five primary barriers to understanding the relationship between a company’s environmental performance and financial […]

Identify Value Drivers and Prosper

EHS professionals who determine the core value drivers in their organizations will prosper—and so will their companies. “Value drivers” are the specific values that steer the organization toward long-term health and well-being. When these drivers are adjusted, many of the projects and resources of an organization are changed to serve those values. Profitability is an […]

Assign PPE? Not Before a Hazard Assessment You Don’t!

OSHA requires a thorough hazard assessment before PPE is selected and assigned to employees. Find out more. If you were a NFL coach, you wouldn’t send your team out on the field without helmets and shoulder pads. If you were a NASA manager, you wouldn’t send an astronaut for a space walk without a space […]

PPE Maker Opens Houston Facility to See, Touch, and Try Products

Honeywell, which manufactures PPE, fire alarm systems, and other products, has opened a $3 million facility to demonstrate their safety products and systems and train people to use them. Honeywell Life Safety President Mark Levy says the company chose Houston for its new safety product showcase because of its concentration of global oil and gas, […]

Preventing Silica Exposure: Engineering Controls vs. PPE

As we said in yesterday’s Advisor, OSHA is proposing to change the PELs for silica. The proposal would also require primary reliance on engineering controls and work practices. OSHA says that primary reliance on engineering controls and work practices rather than PPE to prevent silica exposure is consistent with long-established good industrial hygiene practice, with […]

How One Company Protects Its Lone Workers

At Georgia Power, protecting lone workers is serious business, according to its safety and health general manager. Hamilton Hardin, safety and health general manager, says that Georgia Power makes every effort to ensure that lone workers, like all employees, are treated like "prized assets." Among other things, that means they get comprehensive safety training and […]

Working Alone Shouldn’t Mean Working at Risk

Millions of employees work away from their employer’s location. If some of them are yours, although you don’t see them every day, you’re still responsible for their safety and health. Lone workers perform their jobs on the road, at client’s sites, in home offices, and other locations distant from your workplace. Some, like security guards […]

Checklist for Dealing with Workplace Power Interruptions

Do you have a plan for when the power goes out unexpectedly? You should. A power outage can amount to much more than just a brief inconvenience. It can create safety issues that workers may not recognize unless they have been told to expect them. Consider these questions to identify and plan for possible hazards […]