Safety Management incorporates facets in creating policies and procedures which are in compliance with federal, state and local regulations for both Occupational Safety and Environmental Management. Safety Management also includes voluntary International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, and ANSI’s new 45001 standards to better improve and streamline management systems.
Within this category I will cover topics ranging from how to create management systems which align with these voluntary compliance programs, difficulties, templates and any resource which may be helpful in addition.
Health and Safety in the Workplace Okay, it is pretty common to see the word 'Health' used interchangeably within a practicing Safety Professional role. What does health mean to you?…
Lean Six Sigma: Quality Management on Steroids When I was in college, the extent of Lean Six Sigma I learned about was within my Safety Management course. It was only…
4 strong KPIs which represent the overall performance of a safety program.
Enlightened Data Collection for the Safety Specialist Have you intentionally used appreciative inquiry? Before I begun my morning commute to work, and I was scrolling through my podcast options. I…
Measure where your safety culture currently is and identify how you can drive it to the next level.
Slicing, Dicing, and Divvying Up Data! As a safety professional, mixing and matching data to view how metrics tie into each other is always so interesting! Benchmarking and comparing to…
What goes into your new hire safety orientation? How long do you present for? I love taking this initial chance to meet new employees and start building the relationship!
Is It Really Necessary? Why are incident investigations important anyway? A simple answer would be to prevent the incident from happening again in the future. What you may want to…
Worker's Compensation Basics Incidents happen, injuries happen, property damage happens. Why? We are all human and prone to making mistakes. Whether it is a mistake within a management system approach,…