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Can We Develop a Safety Rule to Prevent Injuries?
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: November 11, 2011
In a recent research for a new project that I am working on, I came across several things that got me thinking about Management Commitment and wanted to share my thoughts with everyone. What I have found from research and experience, that in many cases we as management and safety professionals alike will consider developing a written policy or procedure as a solution to solving a particular safety issue because it seems like the right thing to do.
Job Hazard Analysis - Aligning Human Performance Improvement Concepts With Hazard Analysis
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: January 28, 2011
In recent discussions and reading on Human Performance Improvement (HPI), we have learned about several enhancements that need to be considered for use in the Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) process. Job Hazard Analysis Benefits First, the JHA is a great tool that will assist in the management of associated hazards, risk, and potential loss producing events that are typically embedded in each job, step, and task.
Social Networking Tool - Five Things That I Like About Yahoo Pipes
Internet and Businesses Online: Social Networking • Published: January 19, 2011
I came across Yahoo pipes about one year ago and looked at it as another potential tool that would work into the scheme of social networking. At that time, I felt that it was too complicated and decided to put it aside for a while.
Social Networking Tool - Eight Tips on Choosing an Effective Domain Name
Internet and Businesses Online: Social Networking • Published: January 14, 2011
Finding your niche domain name is a major stumbling block for many individuals as so many of the most popular domain names have already been taken. If you are new to the Internet game, your domain is a unique identifier for a particular URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
Safety Culture - Twelve Steps to a Change Management Checklist
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: January 13, 2011
Conducting site reviews (audits), areas surveys, findings from job hazard analysis (JHA), and observations may uncover perceptions, areas or tasks that must be quickly addressed. To be effective, change management must be used if the necessary revisions and actions are to be effectively implemented.
Social Networking Tool: Five Ways to Use RSS Feeds More Effectively!
Internet and Businesses Online: Social Networking • Published: January 13, 2011
Are you constantly searching the Internet and wading through tons of irrelevant information before you find what you are looking for? If this is the case, then you can turn what I call a "non-value added" activity into an automatic search routine.
Safety Culture - Nine Warning Flags - Factors That Defeat Controls
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: December 14, 2010
The implementation of an improved safety culture requires an almost Sherlock Holmes ability to use observation and logic to identify where underlying loss potential resides in the workplace. Just as Sherlock searched a crime scene, the OHS professional must be sensitive and aware of subtle clues that may not be quite discernible in the work environment.
Safety Culture - 3 Ways of Communicating Your Written Safety Policy!
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: December 8, 2010
To be effective, Top management must state its commitment to safety, quality, etc. through a written and clearly communicated policy. This policy usually outlines the value of providing a safe place for employees to work or producing a quality product.
Safety Culture - Developing, Writing, and Communicating the Direction!
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: December 7, 2010
When you plan a vacation, you and your family have this great vision in mind about where you want to go, what you want to see, and what you want to do as well as the types of experiences you want to have. You may have planned over a number of months or years for the trip.
Social Network Tool - 8 Things That I Like About Dlvrit!
Internet and Businesses Online: Social Networking • Published: December 7, 2010
There is a lot of talk about the pros and cons of automatically posting content to your website. Some will say that is a good thing, as it will provide new content on your site, while others will say that it you may lose credibility with your visitors.
Safety Culture - 10 Things to Help Improve a Safety Management System!
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: December 7, 2010
In order to develop a successful safety culture, one needs to understand the basic elements that make up a management process. If you are looking to take your system to the next level, the following ten things will help you improve your safety management system and will help you with your journey: Defining safety roles and responsibilities for all levels of the organization.
Five Basic Tips for Dealing With a Job Loss - A Personal Account!
Business: Careers Employment • Published: December 2, 2010
You know that the economy is bad and we have to let you go! Read these papers, sign, and return them.
Safety Culture - Management Leadership and Employee Participation
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: December 1, 2010
Is there a simple method to increase employee safety awareness, reduce injuries and loss producing events, reduce operating costs, enhance overall productivity, and improve employee morale? The answer is yes! There are many ways that this can be accomplished and as a business leader you can approach this challenge, by simply developing and managing the safety process in a more effective manner.
Safety Culture - Vision As a Major Trait of Safety Leadership
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: December 1, 2010
In this article, we will refine our discussion on developing the foundation for a successful safety process and "Vision" that is necessary to establish an effective safety culture. Within this process, Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) provides a methodology to determine the various risks, hazards, and needed controls at the micro-level.
Social Media Tool Tip: Ten Things That I Like About Amplify
Internet and Businesses Online: Social Networking • Published: November 30, 2010
How many times have you gone to a website, find something interesting, and wanted to share with a friend or followers on social media sites? You have to copy the site's URL (link), go to your email or favorite social media site and then paste the URL, compose a message and then press send.
Safety Culture - Six Basic Safety Program Elements
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: November 24, 2010
If you run a small business, sometimes it is hard to keep up with all the rules and regulations. However, there are some very basic elements that must be implemented into a management system.
Social Networking - Cons - My Prospective
Internet and Businesses Online: Social Networking • Published: November 18, 2010
In a previous article, Social Networking - Pros - My Prospective, I discussed, a number of Pros as I see them, creating contacts, developing your brand, methods to automate the process, and what I consider is the biggest advantage. Now I want to provide the Cons of social media as I see them and discuss what I see as a disadvantage. If you do not use social media wisely you will soon find out that you have a massive number of followers, but usually not related to your niche. This massive following becomes unmanageable and is hard to control once you have opened the "barn door."
Social Networking - Pros - My Prospective
Internet and Businesses Online: Social Networking • Published: November 18, 2010
The other day someone asked me what I thought was the Pros and Cons of Social Media. I thought about it for a while and then read a lot of material to get my thoughts together before I responded to the person. As I thought about my experience in the Social Media arena, I decided that I would share my thoughts with others.
Safety Culture - Are Injuries Consequences of Our Daily Actions?
Business: Workplace Safety • Published: November 18, 2010
I am a firm believer that injuries happen for a reason! There are many that will agree with this statement, while others will rationalize that some injuries are just, "Freak accidents." If you listen to news reporters on your local new stations, you will hear that someone getting hurt is usually, just a "Freak accident.
5 Things That I Like About Paperli - Newspaper
Internet and Businesses Online: Social Networking • Published: November 16, 2010
If you have not heard, there is a new service, called paper.li, which allow you to create a newspaper from from your Twitter feeds. When you sign up to create a newsletter, you will be presented with several options to create your paper. Once you click the generate button, paper.li will collect the most interesting news stories as they were tweeted, in the past 24 hours. This is a great service that I been using for a while and really love how it works, as it allows me the ability to read my Twitter stream in a newspaper-type format from my Twitter followers. The cool thing is that paper.li organizes news stories into an easy to read format which includes pictures and videos.
Develop a Foundation - Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards - Part 2
Business: Risk Management • Published: November 10, 2010
Much has been written on what a vision should consist of, however, few of us have really established a true vision of what we want to accomplish. "Vision" is what you want to bring into reality or create, where you want to be in the future. How do we know when we have accomplish our Vision? Adopting a process and implementing programs is not enough. One must have an overall vision, realistic goals, and a plan that goes beyond the basics of just compliance. One must have an understanding of why a process must be developed? What do you want the safety and health process to achieve? Can you explain it clearly to the organization?
Develop a Foundation - Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards - Part 1
Business: Risk Management • Published: November 9, 2010
Here are several questions that are usually asked by safety and health professionals: "What are the skills that I need to be within my organization?" "What foundational knowledge and experience do I need?" "What key concepts are essential for my success?" and "What am I expected to accomplish?" Perhaps even - "Why did the last person leave or fail to make an impact?" or "Why did the last person leave the position?"
Navigating "The Social Network Jungle" - Web Page Optimization - Part 4
Internet and Businesses Online: Blogging • Published: October 26, 2010
To be effective you need to build your web pages around your category keywords that are based on your theme keyword. You may have to dig deeper to find those category keywords where there is little competition. This is really time consuming and almost impossible without some automated or free tools system, but can be done with a lot of midnight oil.
Navigating "The Social Network Jungle" - Web Page Optimization - Part 2
Internet and Businesses Online: Blogging • Published: October 26, 2010
Okay, so now what! As I continued to read and study SEO, I finally came to a conclusion that learning the techniques are not as easy as I first believed. It takes a lot of practice and work to develop a personal strategy.
Navigating "The Social Network Jungle" - Web Page Optimization - Part 3
Internet and Businesses Online: Blogging • Published: October 26, 2010
"What strategy can I implement that will give me a better chance of getting noticed/ranked in search engines and send more visitors to my web site?" In this part, I will discuss my own personal strategy that I used to determine the best method for me with the hopes to get a better search engine ranking.
