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Why Do Workers Choose To Get Hurt or Killed?
They may not know it at the time, but workers (and companies) make choices that result in workplace accidents. While there are many contributing factors to workplace accidents, on some level, bad...
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Part 2: Now Let’s Find Out Why Employees Make Those Bad Choices
A few days ago, I ended my analysis of “why workers choose to get injured or killed,” by proposing that as a possible first step to learn the answer, employers should determine their unique safety...
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Why Do Some Establishments Deliver Such Fine Customer Service – And What Does...
I’m on my 16 hour flight back from South Africa to Atlanta and processing my experiences. Surely such a varied and unusual adventure will provide me with fodder for some philosophical musings which...
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Employers Hesitate To Discipline Workers For Safety
This from BLR Workplace Safety News … June 11, 2013 Employers hesitate to discipline workers for safety A labor lawyer says discipline is essential for safety, but employers just aren’t doing it....
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OSHA Gets It Right On Temporary Workers – Part II
I have been surprised to see so little commentary on the outgoing Deputy Assistant Secretary’s April 29 announcement of OSHA ramping up its focus on Temporary Workers. Ed talked a bit earlier this...
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Ruminations On What makes Businesses Succeed (as if a lawyer knows!)
This post is personal, and as the introduction to DVD’s state … this post does not reflect the views of F & P, etc. It’s a labor of love, and also a reflection of my conviction that safety is...
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Can You “App” Yourself To Safety Success?
Safety “apps” are a hot topic. Even techno-challenged souls use apps to spot check noise, avoid heat stress, or conduct basic safety inspections. Even OSHA announced in January, “Winners of an OSHA...
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Employee Engagement or Involvement?
At some point we shifted the discussion from employee “involvement” to employee “engagement.” One dictionary defines “involvement” as: the act of taking part in an activity, event, or situation The...
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Want Another Reason to Focus On Your Employees?
Many of you know, I grew up in the hills of Northwest Georgia where about 85% of the nation’s carpet is manufactured. To put it mildly, it is a non-union area. Thirty miles North lies Chattanooga,...
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Distracted Working
I recently wrote an expanded article on “Why Employees Choose To Get Hurt” for Occupational Health and Safety Magazine, and while reviewing materials, came across a fascinating little gem in the The...
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Is Employee Engagement A Fairy Tale?
My answer is “no,” but the article below reminds us that we must develop “engagement” strategies that recognize the highly imperfect nature of the work world and the effects of the loss of the old...
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OHS Online: More About “Why Do Employees Choose To Get Hurt?”
OHS Blog: Why Do Employees Choose to Get Hurt? August 1, 2013 05:13 by Howard Mavity Despite having handled nearly 500 workplace fatalities, I once found myself hanging three stories from a gutter...
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How Do You Protect Employees Away From the Company?
Many employees work alone at a customer’s site or on the road with no immediate supervision or the presence of a safety professional to check for hazards. Many employees, such as journeymen...
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The Next Big Workplace Safety Issue … Depression?
I grew up with a dad from the “Great Generation” who had survived WWII, Korea and Stalag 17. He and my mom built a pretty impressive business by their hard work. Not surprisingly, I grew up with that...
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The One OSHA Post Retailers Must Read.
If you are in any aspect of retail and a member of LinkedIn, you really need to read the comments on this post on one of the OSHA and Safety sites, “Have You Checked Your Means of Egress lately? Dollar...
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What Can the Encyclopedia Teach us About safety and HR?
The New York Times and other publications are running articles pondering the end of the written version of the Encyclopedia Britannica and what that says about society. We were a “World Book” family,...
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Haz Com/GHS Training Due By December 1, 2013
An excellent explanation and update on Haz Com and the GHS for Construction Contractors, courtesy of the AGC: LINK. Our most recent F & P Blog post on GHS: LINK. MOST IMPORTANT ACTION ITEM:...
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I’m Not an Engineer! What Do I Care About Management of Change?!
Although OSHA’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard may be the most challenging of OSHA’s regulations, the PSM standard, along with NFPA consensus standards about combustible dust have raised the...
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Great Safety Info from “Plant Engineering”
I enjoy articles THAT I discover in Plant Engineering because one of my (many) goals is to obtain more coordination between the safety, engineering, maintenance and purchasing functions. Management of...
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Safety Has Missed the Boat On Sustainability
I have been sharing materials from the EHS Today “America’s Safest Companies” conference which we co-sponsored the last week. I experienced one of those epiphany experiences while listening to Dr John...
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