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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Don’t Be Shocked! Identify Counterfeit Electrical Products

Beware counterfeit products that could cause electrical accidents in the workplace. What are the most frequently counterfeited products in the world? Rolex watches? Louis Vuitton wallets? Try Viagra. In a close second place, though, and of much greater concern for workplace safety experts, are electrical products and components. More than 1 million counterfeited electrical products […]

5 Steps Employees Can Take to Improve Safety Performance and Prevent Accidents

Improving safety performance and preventing workplace accidents is a challenge, but it’s one that’s made much easier when employees lend a hand. If you can get your employees to take these five simple steps every day, you’re well on the way to improved safety performance and zero accidents. 1. Identify hazards: If employees don’t know […]

Exporting World Class Safety: Part 2

Yesterday, we told you about how DuPont exports world class safety through its safety consulting services. Today, we introduce you to another organization that exports what it has learned about workplace safety to other businesses so that they, too, can improve their safety process. The development of a strong internal safety process ultimately led Milliken […]

Exporting World Class Safety

Imagine a safety and health process so effective and highly developed that it can be successfully applied to other businesses. DuPont, which has brought world class science and engineering to market through innovative products, has also created a world class safety process. Protecting its 58,000 employees and eliminating injuries is essential to DuPont’s core commitment. […]

OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Service Is Very Popular—And Not Only Because It’s Free

Your business may be in the market for an outside safety consultant but lacking in resources to hire one. OSHA’s free safety and health consultation services may be the answer, or at least part of the answer. OSHA consultation provides free and confidential advice to small- and medium-sized businesses committed to improving workplace safety and […]

Need Help Meeting Compliance Requirements? On-Site Consultation May Be the Answer

There’s help out there if you need advice about improving safety performance and compliance. And some of it is free. Here’s the success story of one employer who turned to its state OSHA for assistance. After developing an innovative process for manufacturing sidewall panels for recreational vehicles and motor homes, Dicor called in the expertise […]

Who’s In Favor of Employee Involvement?

Who’s in favor of employee involvement? Practically everybody. But the real question is, how do you make it work? Ask a roomful of safety professionals if they favor employee involvement for improving safety and health, and you’ll likely see all hands rise. It’s intuitive that getting workers engaged in safety and health will enhance their […]

Get Workers Involved in Safety–and Keep Them Engaged

Here’s a company where the safety program is built around employee involvement. The Ruhlin Company, headquartered near Akron, Ohio, has 350 employees who work on a variety of construction projects. Safety director Ryan Nicholson says the company’s safety program is built around employee involvement. Workers have to feel some kind of ownership in the program, […]

Do You Have What It Takes to Work 3 Million Safe Hours?

Poultry producers have had their share of run-ins with OSHA, but a Wayne Farms, LLC, site is getting attention for a more positive reason. The company’s Enterprise, Alabama, site recently celebrated 3 million hours worked without a lost-time accident. Keep reading to learn how they did it. Getting there is no accident, says Wayne Farms […]

Workplace Injuries: Where? Who? Why?

Today, we look first at some interesting injury statistics and then review 10 common compliance pitfalls that can lead to citations, accidents, and injuries A recent report by the insurance carrier Allsup finds that injury rates vary considerably by state, even for workers in the same industries. Keep reading to find out how your state […]