Are safety professionals preparing for incidents to happen instead of preventing them?
87 percent of safety professionals say they’re proactive about safety despite having failure-focused key performance indicators. According to our global safety industry survey, success as safety professionals is primarily measured by lagging indicators, or the occurrence and frequency of events that happened in the past, such as: Number of Reported Accidents & Incidents (76 percent) …
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Workplace Safety Tips for Organizations, from Industry Experts
Workplace safety tips—you’ve heard tons by now, and they’ve probably told you what you know or what you’re already doing. Although this topic has been discussed many times before, workplace safety shouldn’t be taken lightly—especially by people in leadership. We interviewed experts across various industries and summarized their advice into 5 workplace safety tips: Never …
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4 Leadership Moves to Build a Better Safety Culture and Improve Employee Mindset
There’s a new breed of corporate culture aimed at proactively keeping workplaces safe. It’s commonly known as “safety culture” and it’s revolutionizing how employers and employees engage with safety. 5,190 working people were killed on the job and more than 50,000 died from occupational diseases in the United States last year. In 2016, 991 construction …
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How Great Leaders Make Great Safe Workplaces
The safest workplaces don’t just have comprehensive rules and standards—they feature great leadership, too. “Health and safety improvements are best achieved when health and safety are supported by the organisation’s culture,” says a Safe Work Australia spokesperson. “Leaders in organisations have a vital role to play.” Here, Dr Dan Caprar, a psychologist and senior lecturer …
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