Incident management and incident investigations, while not typically welcome due to their nature of something having gone wrong, are a necessary tool in any EHS professional‘s toolbelt. They have been getting a bad reputation lately and pushed to ‘lagging indicator’ … Read More
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Everyone Needs a Health and Safety Plan (but that doesn’t make you safe)
Adapted from “Creating & Maintaining a Practical Based Safety Culture©” I believe the term most often used for my ongoing information storage challenge is “packrat”. I have had this condition almost all my life and on occasion I get inspired … Read More
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Return on Investment for Digital EHS Technology
Companies are in the business of making money. Everything else, even if beneficial or complimentary, is secondary to the primary focus of staying in business. As a result, it often seems as though there are competing priorities to production and … Read More
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Criteria for Safety & Health Performance Indicators (KPIs)
For years you have heard about leading and lagging indicators for safety and health. In 2016, I published an article for the National Safety Council’s Safety + Health magazine on leading and lagging indicators, as seen here: What are safety … Read More
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Safety Assurance Methodology (SAM)
The essential objective of a safety management system is to provide for a systematic approach to achieving acceptable levels of safety risk. At the start, a system analysis is conducted, hazards are identified, risk is assessed, and controls are put … Read More
Home » Safety Platform Blog » A Human Experience in a Digital World – Using the Right Tool for the Job

A Human Experience in a Digital World – Using the Right Tool for the Job
In a previous blog article, Cary discussed the Benefits of a Digital EHS System. It was clear, the potential benefits of adopting a digital strategy to manage an EHS management system are tremendous and far-reaching. However, even though technology can … Read More
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Benefits of a Digital EHS Management System
Technology has completely transformed the way we live. Easier, faster, convenient – all terms we use when considering how technology has benefited us. For many of us, we could not imagine our day-to-day lives without the phones at our fingertips, … Read More
Safety For Success In 2018
The 11th most popular 2018 resolution is to find a better job, according to a 24/7 Wall Street’s survey. The correlation between the popularity of this resolution and the abysmally low 32% of American employees surveyed who claimed to be … Read More
Home » Safety Platform Blog » The Spirit of Recognition Strengthens Safety at Webcor Builders
