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EHS Programs
Safe Work Practices and Safe Job Procedures: What's the Difference?
Safe Work Practices (SWP) and Safe Work Procedures, or Safe Job Procedures (SJP), are familiar concepts among health and safety professionals. They are part of a...
By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager
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EHS Programs
A Primer on Administrative Controls
Once you've identified a hazard in your workplace, you'll need to implement controls to protect workers from it.If you can't eliminate it entirely or...
By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist
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Leadership
QUIZ: Safety Leadership Skills
Being a strong safety leader requires more than just demonstrating actions that are aligned with the value of safety. It also requires working with employees across...
By: Safeopedia Staff
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Contractor Management
How to Properly Measure Contractor Engagement
Not many organizations can complete their work by relying solely on their own employees. Short timelines, the scope of work, the specialized nature of client needs, and...
By: Karoly Ban Matei | HR and Safety Manager
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EHS Programs
The Real Reason Employees Hate Safety Programs
As I walked through the ACME Widget Factory (not its real name), I was impressed by the safety program they had in place. There were systems for reporting safety...
By: Bryan McWhorter | Lead Safety Advisor, Author, Writer, Speaker
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Best Practices
Measuring Actions (Not Documents) for Better Trade Partner Engagement
Very few companies can carry out their work independently. External organizations, third parties, and all manner of specialized contractors allow even relatively small...
By: James Alexander | Construction Safety Director
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EHS Programs
Behavior-Based Safety - Can it Really Make a Difference?
It’s a safe assumption that most people in industry are interested in making the workplace safer. Many approaches to workplace safety have been tried and most of...
By: Adel Lawson | Managing Partner
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Leadership
The 4 Areas Safety Professionals Need to Focus On
As safety professionals, one of our main focuses is continual improvement. We set benchmarks, adjust practices, and tweak programs to ensure that safety performance gets...
By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist
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Leadership
7 Supply Chain Risks You Need to Anticipate and Manage
Your vendors and suppliers aren't simply companies you partner with and rely on - they're an extension of your operation. They give you flexibility, capacity,...
By: Daniel Clark | Safety and Quality Management System Specialist
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Leadership
The Top 4 Levers That Will Drive Safety Forward in 2022
Employers and safety professionals no longer have to strategize in the dark. We have the ability to make informed decisions and let the data show us where our efforts...
By: Mark Wright | Managing Director
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EHS Programs
Why a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace Is a Safer Workplace
If you're over forty years old, there's a good chance that you started work in an environment where you never heard words like "diversity" and "...
By: Adel Lawson | Managing Partner
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Safeopedia Podcasts
The Safety View: Measuring Performance with Michael Hartley
In this Safety View discussion our guest Michael Hartley, will open a discussion about "Measuring Performance". We will be looking specifically at how ESG...
By: Tamara Parris
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