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April 25, 2022

IOGP SAFETY LEADERSHIP GUIDE FOR MANAGERS

If you have not yet read the IOGP guide on safety leadership in practice - check it out! We all want to create a good safety culture. Well, point me to someone who really does not want that. However...

Russian FederationBlog

April 18, 2022

Safety Ideas

I am excited today, because one of my workers came to me with an excellent idea. He invented a way to reduce work at height risks in the office by replacing some overhead equipment with a more ergonom...

Russian FederationOpinion

April 6, 2022

The safety marketing crisis

What marketing crisis? The short answer: there’s a surplus of “functional” safety content which makes it very difficult for new companies to utilize this style of long form content to drive sales.

United StatesOpinion

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April 3, 2022

Are you scared of audits?

Last week I was doing a field visit during a contractor HSE audit. Everything was going well, and then two people were asked to share their JSA for an upcoming hazardous activity. They went into our...

Russian FederationOpinion

April 3, 2022

Children's safety

Kids tend to fall, smash, slip, and tumble. We would not have it any other way because it is all part of being a kid. However, there are small things that we can all do to help kids prevent more serio...

United Arab EmiratesOpinion

March 29, 2022

Importance of Front-Line Leaders

There is a yearly staff meeting. The CEO starts the speech with the importance of occupational health and safety, mental health protection and working together as one team. The HR Director continues...

Russian FederationOpinion

March 28, 2022

Grinder Machine Safety | Mechanical & Non-mechanical Hazards | Control Measures

Grinder machine Safety | What are the mechanical and Non-mechanical Hazards | Control Measures Before get into it we will know what is Hazard ? Hazard is something which has the potential to cause...

IndiaBlog

March 25, 2022

Repeated Incidents

Do you like incident investigations? In my experience, people can get very excited about them. There are many techniques for Root Cause Analysis, some going together with fancy tools and long spreads...

Russian FederationOpinion

March 24, 2022

The Power of Social Media to Support Knowledge Sharing.

Hello dear Safety Professionals I'm Bapi Sarkar from Mumbai India. I'm a Former Construction Worker currently pursuing NEBOSH & to become a certified Safety Professional is my Dream. But right now I ...

IndiaOpinion

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March 23, 2022

Sharing your cv or resume in social groups equals throwing it in trash bins !

Yes ! of course you may get angry or may you have a different opinion on this, but let me share the reason why you should not share your cv or resume in social groups. In simple words be genuine and ...

IndiaOpinion

March 22, 2022

Fitz’s Top Four Reasons Lockout Policies Fail to Protect Employees

In my 50 years of manufacturing experience, I have seen all too many employee amputations, severe arc flash burns, and other catastrophic injuries. To my memory, the root cause of all these accidents ...

United StatesBlog

March 21, 2022

DIFFERENT SAFETY CULTURES - DIFFERENT SAFETY STORIES

Do you know what a Safety Culture Ladder is? Many of you do, but just in case: “Pathological” / “Nobody cares” / “Practice-based” culture - if a person falls from height, we hide it or blame the p...

Russian FederationOpinion

March 21, 2022

Experience is Not equal to Competence !

Experience is Not Equal to Competence! Yes! Of Course, you may amazed because of the statement but why? - let me share my thoughts here! When I got my first job in a wind turbine generator erectio...

IndiaOpinion

March 20, 2022

51st National Safety Week

Theme :Nurture young minds Develop Safety Culture. When I came in Mumbai I was also started working like them.. and ultimately it's my turn to train them, aware them about all of the potential Hazar...

IndiaBlog

March 11, 2022

Fire load

Fire load: An important factor in establishing the basis for the assessment of the fire risk pertaining to any building is the concept of ‘fire load’ which indicates the quantity of hea...

United Arab EmiratesBlog

March 10, 2022

Hammers - think safe act safe

From our home to mega projects .... hammer plays a vital role. How many kinds of hammers are there? Actually, there are about 5, including claw, sledge, bricklayers, peen, chipping, tack, and soft f...

United Arab EmiratesBlog

March 10, 2022

COMMON MISTAKES IN SAFETY STORIES

I know one person who loves to talk about safety. He starts all his meetings with a safety moment, he conducts separate sessions about safety with his subordinates, he always has comments about incide...

Russian FederationOpinion

March 5, 2022

WHAT MAKES A GOOD SAFETY STORY

Which story is more appealing to you and why? Story 1 In the past few years our company suffered an increase in road traffic accidents. Last year we recorded 30% more injuries because of overspeeding...

Russian FederationOpinion

February 28, 2022

Storytelling in Safety Management (1)

People think in stories - this is a fact. Try to remember “31, 5, 13, 18, 100, 14, 4”. Compare it to “31 people live in 5 different cities. 13 of them commute to work using public transport and 18 ...

Russian FederationOpinion

February 26, 2022

Ergonomics Golden Rules

Many workers in 2022 will be obliged to swiftly convert a room in their home into a full-time workstation due to the new realities. Ergonomics may not have been at the top of your priority list becaus...

United Arab EmiratesBlog

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April 20, 2022

Eating healthy on the road

Blessed to say my current situation is a zero-travel situation, but at previous employers I was required to travel AT LEAST one week a month. Being on the road I quickly realized two things: (1) hotel...

United StatesBlog

May 14, 2021

I wish all the agency updates were in one place...

Well guess what we’re going to learn how to build today. Harnessing the infinite power of the internet, we are going to run what’s called a “table scrape” on the OSHA and NIOSH websites and pull some ...

United StatesBlog

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April 23, 2021

Group chat is lit

No I’m not talking about the 15 person in-law group chat, though I’m sure that one gets lively too. This one would ideally have a few other safety pros, and (hopefully) sits near the top of your inbox...

United StatesOpinion

April 17, 2021

Photographing your workplace

It’s common for safety pros to photograph incidents of unsafe workplace conditions when walking through the facility. These photos are then typically sent to managers, supervisors, and/or employees to...

United StatesBlog

April 9, 2021

Why there’s caution tape around administrative controls

Ever walked into a bank and wondered why they don’t keep stacks of money in the lobby? Of course not! It’s obvious the reason banks don’t do this is because people would steal it. Banks keep their mon...

United StatesOpinion

April 2, 2021

Imagine if your workflow looked like this 👇

Alright, now let’s duplicate that for you in about 45 seconds. Ready? Step 1: Copy the text in this google doc:

United StatesBlog

March 26, 2021

Soon to be meme Grant Taleck likes walking

On March 13, 2021 Grant Taleck walked 33.09 miles. Let that sink in. The walk lasted 9 hours 26 minutes, and by the end of it he had this to say in a DM to me: “And mow my legs are extremely sore” (no...

United StatesBlog

March 14, 2021

Safety Culture??

What is a safety culture? How is this safety culture achieved? How do you handle adversity while trying to obtain this culture? What do you mean by building a safety culture from the ground up? These...

March 9, 2021

The Queen’s Gambit

Have you seen this Netflix original show? It’s about a girl who is an orphan and grows up to be an amazing chess player. She learns all about chess from the maintenance man at her orphanage. Instead o...