Supervisor buy-in to a safety program is important to a company’s overall safety culture. Period. If supervisors fail to follow safety rules or prioritize production over safety, then employees are going to be much less likely to take the program seriously. And sometimes in these cases, supervisors failing to follow safety rules can lead to […]
The owner of an excavation company can’t be sued by his employee over injuries sustained in a trench collapse. Why? Because, despite failing to use a trench box, the court found he didn’t intend to harm the employee. Workers’ compensation and other laws are in place to protect employers from lawsuits and keep the courts […]
A chemical plant owned by the federal government violated OSHA’s process safety management (PSM) standard in multiple ways! If it was a privately owned business the facility would be paying more than a million dollars in fines, but instead it gets off with just having to correct its violations. What happened: The Cliffside Helium Enrichment […]
Newly proposed regulations relating to the New York HERO Act’s workplace safety committee requirements offer some clarification on what’s expected from employers and when they are required to institute a committee. Under the Act, the state’s Department of Labor will require employers with at least 10 employees to allow those employees to establish a workplace […]
We had a location that was doing well with safety. Their stats were great! But then they started tanking. We didn’t know what was causing this. So we went to the facility and gathered people from all departments for a meeting. It was important for employees to tell us themselves what was going wrong. But […]
Employees valuing their own safety and watching out for each other because they want to, not because they have to – that’s the definition of a good safety culture. How do you get there? There are five areas many employers miss, according to Dale Lesinski, VP Sales & Training, DiVal Safety Equipment. Lesinski outlined five keys […]
Over the past several years, safety culture has emerged as a pivotal component of any highly productive and innovative organization. Now emerging from a global pandemic, workplace safety is a top priority for every organization’s success. And it is not just about creating sanitization stations and painting lines on the floor for social distancing. It is […]
Where do the best workplace safety ideas come from? Often, the source is employees because they know the hazards involved with tasks – and how to abate them – better than anyone else. This OSHA investigation proves it. Started with complaint An employee complaint led OSHA to inspect this business. At this indoor gun range, […]
What happens when the results from your safety program start to plateau – when injury rates flatline, employees are unmotivated and uninspired and safety culture suffers? One thing we did was to use the S.T.A.R.S. program. It was originally a self-check tool to prepare for certain tasks developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) […]
