It’s Time to End the Blame Game and Start a Just Safety Culture
It’s time for companies to build a just safety culture, where trust in workers is established, people feel safe to communicate their concerns and observations.
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How to Build Your Job Safety Analysis Plan
Job hazard analysis (JHA) or job safety analysis (JSA) help to identify risks and create safer workplaces.
Process Improvement and Safety Culture: Building a Better Workplace
A conversation with Scott Gaddis, Vice President & Global Practice Leader, Safety and Health at Intelex Technologies, on how a safety culture can be strengthened through health and safety-related process improvements. In November 2021, Scott Gadds virtually presented to a large H&S International audience on the value of process improvement within organisations, explaining how effective processes can not only reduce workplace incidents but can ultimately lead to saving lives. To learn more around the importance […]
Second Week Highlights from COP26 – The Good and Bad News
Global leaders pledged to work towards ensuring that by 2040 or earlier and no later than 2035 in leading markets all new cars and vans sold will be zero emission vehicles.
Highlights from COP26 – Will Leaders Deliver on Promises Made?
The tools needed to solve the environment crisis exist and commitments promised by world leaders last week could help the world move towards solutions.
Staying Focused Key Step to ESG Reporting Success: Panel
key step in the ESG process is creating a core document, often referred to as a corporate sustainability report, that encapsulates a company’s overall mission around ESG and how they intend to meet their goals.
Falls Top the OSHA Top 10 List of Safety Violations for More than a Decade
OSHA revealed the Top 10 safety violations for fiscal year 2021 at the NSC Safety Congress & Expo and once again, falls top the list.
How ESG Integration Enhances EHS Management and Business Sustainability
With ESG, there’s a triple bottom line: profit, people, and the planet that will be demanded not only by the internal stakeholder, but the consumer and those looking to invest as shareholders.
Permit to Work Boosts Safety by Design Strategies
As companies pursue more proactive and preventive safety strategies such as Safety by Design, they are looking for new processes and methods such as Permit to Work software, to help make it happen. Keeping workers healthy, happy and safe should be a strong governance focus within every company’s ESG strategy. In 2019, over 27% of […]
Top 10 Tips to Prevent Workplace Fatalities and Injuries
Each day, millions of workers head to manufacturing facilities, oil and gas refineries, mines, shipyards, airlines, food distribution hubs, farms, stores and more. Thousands of workers won’t return home from work. Over 3 million work-related deaths occur annually, according to estimates from the International Labour Organisation and hundreds of millions of workers suffer from workplace […]
The 5 Basic Principles of HOP (Human and Organizational Performance)
A Brief Overview to Human and Organizational Performance Human and Organizational Performance systems, better known as HOP, have garnered much recent discussion and interest by many organizations, who see it as a better approach to improving safety performance. The premise of HOP is the idea that human error is inevitable so perhaps through better process systems management and analysis, organizations might lessen the effect of human error through the promotion of defenses that reduce risk. It is with this thinking that organizations can build management system robustness by […]
Digging In to Improve Mining Safety: Challenges and Software Solutions
Mining safety is on an upswing in recent years. According to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), approximately 230,000 miners work across 11,500 metal/nonmetal mines in the U.S., while 64,000 work in the nation’s 1,000 coal mines. The mining sector employs 3.7 million+ workers worldwide and is structured according to the substance being mined, the type […]