Overcoming Barriers to an Ineffective Safety Culture
Supervisors need to take a tough-caring leadership approach to safety. In other words, employers must insist their employees comply with safety policies and rules…
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Safety Recognition: OSHA Violation?
I recently wrote a HSE Press Journal article and provided some rules for effectively recognizing employees that can have a huge positive impact, not…
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Rules for Radical Recognition
Over the years, while traveling throughout the long empty back roads of Oregon as an OR-OSHA trainer, I came up with what I believe…
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Recognizing Safe Behavior
The Truth: We Always Recognize Behavior in Some Form To improve your safety recognition program, what should we actually recognize: safe behavior, or the…
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Recognition: Understanding Cause and Effect
Recognition of employees with a bonus or other extrinsic rewards for not having a lost time injury during a specified period of time is…
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Banishing “Employee of the Month”
An effective safety accountability program depends on effective consequences that are for success as well as failure. It’s important to understand no matter what…
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Employee Involvement
Employee involvement is important when you conduct Job Safety Analyses and Activity Hazard Analyses on a construction site. Employees should be consulted during preparation…
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Three Models of Safety Leadership
Every day, employees, supervisors and managers have many opportunities to communicate and act in ways that demonstrate safety leadership. Unfortunately, these opportunities often go…
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Safety Accountability Decision Tree
To be objective, evaluating safety performance to determine if discipline is justified must be based on facts, not subjective hunches or feelings. The last…
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Effective Safety Accountability System
You hear a lot about accountability as a safety professional, but it’s important we understand the close coordination between safety staff, line supervisors, and…
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