If You Want Happiness -A Chinese Proverb If you want happiness for an hour – Take a nap! If you want happiness for a day – Go Fishing! If you want happiness for a month – Get Married! If you want happiness for a year – Inherit a Fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – Help Others! MANY […]
{jcomments on}We have all debated the “zero accident” goal philosophy and it is often times hard for safety professionals to grasp the thought that an accident may have benefits, but they can and often times do! Now I am in NO WAY advocating we go out and work unsafely so we can have an accident;
Psychology of Safety —– Who are you kidding If only we could all view our organization as a family of people working together to achieve common goals. We see our own family members as people, and we never hesitate to actively care for their safety and health. In fact, we inflate the virtues of those
Coal Miner’s Family Prayer The children now grown and gone The father’s body broken and worn His bucket and hat now lay in the rust His once clear lungs now filled with dust His once blackened face never a disguise He was a hero in his family’s eyes Their love for is so complete
Neat little video for those of us who need a reminder from time to time as to why we do what we do! Sounds like a GEICO commercial, but it is still a nice video for the safety profession. Where would we be without Safety Professionals? from InjuryFree on Vimeo.
Here we stand down and dejected The short cut he took was not detected The life he lived has now been rejected If only our safety rules he would have respected Author: Russ Baxter
Everyone’s lives seem to be very busy in this fast paced world. We rush to get to work and then rush home. We urge all workers to take one or two minutes at the beginning of each shift to talk about safety. Such talks can have several safety and operational benefits. The talks will prompt
For all of you out there involved in behavior based safety, I have a TRICK QUESTION for you… Is it easier to convince people to AVOID an UNSAFE ACT or is it easier to get them to COMMIT a SAFE ACT? I ask this because I am trying to figure out a plan of attack
We Believe …That every man or women bears the unalterable responsibility for keeping out of harm’s way. This he or she owes to him or herself, their family, their fellows and his or her job.
Workplace safety is a concept that involves creating a safe working atmosphere, a safe place to work, securing and safeguarding the lives of all employees regardless of positioning the company. Workplace safety is of prime importance since there are professions, which involve risks that, not recognized and managed, could turn out to be fatal. There are
Here is a great poem I know you have seen before…but this reminds me of Safety; of what we do.
Incident prevention represents the hallmark of our safety program. It is the primary reason why we emphasize adequate job planning, risk assessment, awareness and supervision. While we intend to become adept and masters of prevention, there are times when we may need to risk response to an incident situation and over response effectiveness may be
