Tag: Worker Participation

Back to Basics: Worker Participation

By Grace Hatfield, EHS Daily Advisor Aug 21, 2023 Back to Basics

Updated: Aug 21, 2023

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine worker participation and how leaders can help their employees get involved in safety. In order to build a strong, effective safety culture, there must be buy-in from all employees at all levels, […]

Does Your Incentive Program meet OSHA’s Draft Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines?

By Jennifer Busick Apr 19, 2016 EHS Management

Updated: Apr 19, 2016

In OSHA’s 1989 Safety and Health Management Program Guidelines, “Management commitment and employee involvement” were a single major element. In its proposed revisions, OSHA has broken out “worker participation” into its own section and greatly expanded it. In the new section, OSHA has targeted two common employer practices— incentive programs and postincident drug testing—as having […]