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Accident Prevention

08 May

How lean and safe thinking cuts costs

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Safety and sustainability

A prospective client asked about the ROI of using lean and safe thinking to build an organizational culture where safety is a value and elimination of waste is part of the company’s DNA. This is a tough question, as the …

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03 May

Preventive Maintenance Can Reduce Safety Risk

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention

Preventive maintenance and safety are disciplines not typically seen as closely related, but bridging the two silos can help identify low probability risks with severe injury potential. A risk assessment of your facility and processes, talking with maintenance workers and …

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27 April

Will your safety incentive plan be OK with OSHA?

  • Posted by Jim Stanley
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Enforcement, OSHA, Recordkeeping

As mentioned in a previous post OSHA is warning companies not to structure rewards programs — whether intentionally or not — so that they encourage employees not to report injuries or illnesses. An example might be offering the chance to …

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10 April

Applying strategic thinking to safety

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Research

It’s easy for safety professionals to keep their gaze on the trees rather than the forest. There are plenty of pressing daily problems to solve and it becomes easy to push strategic thinking to the back burner. For those who …

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01 April

April 2012 newsletter

  • Posted by FDRsafety
  • Categories Accident Prevention, FDRsafety newsletter

Generating ROI from a safety program
Let us help keep your pipeline project safe
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29 March

Safety rewards programs may violate OSHA rules

  • Posted by Jim Stanley
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Enforcement, OSHA, Recordkeeping

OSHA is warning employers to be careful about rewards programs that could unintentionally – or perhaps even intentionally – encourage employees not to report injuries. In a recent communication, OSHA cited as an example a program in which employers created …

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26 March

Do you know the leading cause of non-fatal workplace injuries?

  • Posted by Jim Stanley
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Research, Training

Dramatic accidents involving long falls or amputations in machines are often what makes headlines when it comes to non-fatal safety issues. But the costliest disabling injuries for industry, at least when it comes to Workers Compensation, involve something much more …

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01 March

March 2012 newsletter

  • Posted by FDRsafety
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Enforcement, FDRsafety newsletter, OSHA

OSHA penalties double, but are workplaces safer?
FDRsafety launches pipeline environmental inspection and consultation service
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13 February

Research shows the importance of attitude in safety

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Research, Training

As we have stressed here before, a key factor in safety is making sure that the people involved have the right attitude. That truth is driven home by a fascinating article called “Cognitive – Behavioral Safety: How Stages of Change …

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30 January

Change safety behavior: focus on the heart as well as the head

  • Posted by Mike Taubitz
  • Categories Accident Prevention, Safety and sustainability, Training

Why is it that safety professionals keep hoping to instill safe behavior by dealing only with the minds of employees? Think about it — skills training, hazard awareness and even (from my perspective) the misguided attempt to have one employee …

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