To ensure greater effectiveness, it’s important for employers to revisit their safety programs and policies. In this article, we’ll discuss some of the most common workplace safety mistakes and provide tips on how to avoid them.
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OSHA’s HazCom standard requires that employees be informed of the hazards associated with the chemicals in their workplace and how to protect themselves from exposure. This course explains the purpose of the HazCom standard, and how to reduce risks when dealing with hazardous chemicals. Watch this course preview to learn how supervisors can best communicate that information to employees.
Supervisors must be certain that all employees have the knowledge to carry out their role in the workplace in a safe manner. Training is the “how,” meaning the skills, practices, procedures, and safe behaviors that keep a worker safe. But also important is the “why.” A common reason employees fail to follow rules is that they don’t know why the rules matter. When employees are educated on the consequences of behaviors and deviations from the rules, they’re more likely to follow them.
Making changes in your company can be stressful and risky, and managing those changes without a management-of-change process can be even more so. Without a solid process in place, it can also be time-consuming and expensive. Whether the change is new technology implementation, process updates, compliance initiatives, or reorganization, a good management-of-change process can save you time and money.
This guide will help you understand the key benefits of EHS management systems, like BLR’s EHS Hero®, and how you can effectively communicate them to help gain support from leadership for your safety initiatives.
According to one of the first definitions of safety culture, it’s “an organizational culture in which ‘safety is an overriding priority.’” The term “safety culture” implies a value for safety or a culture of safety. Still, now use the term to describe an organization’s culture as it relates to safety values and beliefs, regardless of whether the organization truly values safety.
These near-miss incidents serve as a warning to companies that procedures must be reconsidered to avoid serious injury or death. According to the National Safety Council, major incidents typically are preceded by near misses, meaning they could’ve been avoided had the near miss been reported.
The next time your workers voice their complaints about the abundance of rules or the need to go through yet another equipment clearance, ask them to consider whether they would prefer to go back to the “old days” when safety wasn’t considered a priority. Reflecting on these three crucial turning points in the history of workplace safety might make them think twice
This session focuses primarily on large lead-based batteries, as well as lithium-ion batteries that are frequently used in a large number of industrial settings. This course will help employees understand potential hazards when dealing with battery-operated equipment, how to handle batteries, and what to do in case of a battery-related emergency.