As they say in the theater, “The show must go on!" If you think about it, keeping up with your safety program isn’t really any different, is it? Maintaining your safety program and ensuring safety regulations are being followed are necessary to keep workers safe, regardless of what’s going on in the world.
Topics: Workplace Health and Safety, EHS Management, Job Safety Analysis, Training Management, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections, Safety Culture, Lockout/Tagout, Human Resources, Coronavirus
Building a successful safety program is only half the battle. Once you’ve built a program you can be proud of, you have to make sure it stays that way. As Warren Buffet once quipped, it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it, and the same thing can be said of your safety program.
Topics: Process Safety, Workplace Health and Safety, EHS Management, Audit Management, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections, Safety Culture
An employee is seriously injured and OSHA slaps your company with fines. A safety referral results in a fine.
Topics: OSHA, Regulatory Information, Workplace Health and Safety, Risk Management, Compliance, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections
As a safety professional, your job revolves around your peers. You have to train them, provide them with the right tools, and ensure that they’re performing their jobs in the safest manner possible.
Topics: Workplace Health and Safety, Risk Management, EHS Management, Job Safety Analysis, Incident Management, Audit Management, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections, Safety Culture
The process of determining recordability can sometimes be very taxing—both professionally and emotionally. If you’re like most EHS professionals, it’s one of the more stressful parts of your job, especially when you have to tell a member of management that they’ve had a recordable injury.
Topics: OSHA, Regulatory Information, Workplace Health and Safety, Risk Management, Compliance, EHS Management, Incident Management, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections, Safety Culture
Safety inspections and safety audits are critical tools in achieving EHS compliance. But while they’re often used interchangeably, they’re actually two different processes designed to address two different aspects of workplace safety management.
Topics: Workplace Health and Safety, Compliance, Audit Management, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections
For many safety managers, the thought of an audit is an invitation for a stress nightmare. For employees, it’s a headache.
Topics: OSHA, Workplace Health and Safety, Compliance, Audit Management, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections, Safety Culture
The traditional safety inspection is going digital and the inspector is taking to the air.
Topics: Workplace Health and Safety, Risk Management, Trends, Technology, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections
Are you using safety audit checklists in your EHS department? If you are, consider yourself one step closer to bringing organization and efficiency into your operations. And if you’re not, you should be.
Topics: OSHA, Compliance, Safety Audit Software, Audit Management, Safety Management, Audits & Inspections, Safety Culture
Safety leaders use templates all the time to ensure no details fall through the cracks. Everything from inspection forms and audits to training and more can help streamline your work and remove any guesswork as to what you need to record.
Topics: EHS Software, Workplace Health and Safety, EHS Management, Training Management, Incident Management, Audits & Inspections
