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Are your workers carrying one of the biggest safety risks onto the jobsite?
Are your workers carrying one of the biggest safety risks onto the jobsite? If they are walking around with cell phones in their pockets, the answer is yes. In the 14 years since the first smartphone was released, cell phones have increasingly become central to how we...
What can you do today to increase productivity and safety despite the workforce shortage?
The white paper, "Restoring the Dignity of Work: Transforming the U.S. Workforce Development System into a World Leader," opens with this assessment. “Even with dramatic increases in infrastructure funding and stronger development of innovations, we as a nation no...
Does Your Safety Observation System Create Victims, Villains, and a Culture of Apathy?
Does your BBS process create victims, villains, and a culture of apathy? Chances are that you have a Behavior Based Safety (BBS) process in place for all of your projects. And, of course, the reason that you have a BBS process to begin with is to reduce accidents....
Bad Apple vs. The System
The Bad Apple theory blames human error as the cause of mishaps. This comes about because of a loss of situational awareness, procedural violations, regulatory shortcomings, or managerial deficiencies. From this point of view and the fact that accident data is...
The 800 Pound Gorilla in the Room: Your Management Team Should be Responsible for Safety not the Safety Department
Needless to say, worksite safety is a high priority for all organizations. However, your organizational structure may have unwittingly placed all of the responsibility on your safety department’s shoulders. No one wants to talk about it, but management should bear the...