Even as recently as 5 years ago, the vast majority of companies that offered safety incentive programs provided cash, prizes, awards or other forms of recognition to employees for performance related ...

Responding is Gregory Boothe, Ph.D., CIH, CSP, faculty lead for occupational safety and health, Columbia Southern University, Orange Beach, AL. When introducing a safety management program, safety ...

Employers looking for help on how to structure their workplace safety and health programs just received a roadmap from OSHA’s new Safety Champions Program. The Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, ...

In prior articles we have discussed the importance of safety programs, how to implement them correctly, and how to “measure” them using leading and lagging indicators. Inspection of the workplace is ...

Safety performance does not improve through isolated programs. It improves when organizations align strategy, leadership, and culture to build sustainable capacity. A vice president of operations ...

Caterpillar Safety Services has updated two safety programs designed to build safety cultures within organizations: a safety perception survey and a program focused on human and organizational ...

Using effective control factors to streamline PPE selection and simplify conformity across sites has the full attention of today’s safety managers. "We are cutting back, but we are not cutting back on ...

Even with the extensive knowledge professional safety management has accumulated about accident prevention in the last 100 years, the evidence shows safety programs still can be woefully ineffective.

Best practices call for incentive programs to provide monthly feedback on progress to employees and allow employees to reach goals. Incentive programs can get stale, says one expert, who suggests ...