safety management News
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Safety Management Trends of 2013
Challenges and opportunities shaped the occupational safety management landscape in 2013. Results of an earlier survey showed that safety professionals were cautiously optimistic as they braced themselves for another year of heavier workloads, international duties, and more pressing safety concerns. Let’s take a look at the safety management trends that defined the previous year… ...
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Driving Improvements in Safety Management Webinar
One of the most critical components of your business is ensuring the safety of your employees. This isn’t just a requirement from a compliance perspective, it also ensures you aren’t exposed to undue risk and that your corporate performance is maximized. But managing this information can be overwhelming, particularly if you have multiple locations or a mobile workforce that is ...
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Webinar: 5 Essential Steps for Managing Safety to Win Contracts in Construction
Demonstrating that you have comprehensive commitment to safety isn’t just a nice to have in the construction business, it’s imperative. More and more construction projects are actually requiring contractors to show that they have a safety management system in place to protect workers, ensure compliance and reduce risk. Without it, you just can’t win those contracts. ...
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Webinar: How Untracked Data Costs Lives and Kills Profit
The classic approach to safety management typically involves documenting recordable incidents, lost time and — whenever they should occur — fatalities. But while this inherently flawed approach works for basic regulatory reporting, it does nothing to proactively reduce injuries, minimize costs and save lives. To learn how to build the foundation for a proactive safety pyramid in this ...
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Strategies to Improve Transportation Safety
In this session of the 2016 National Regional Transportation Conference, attendees learned about the stakeholder-developed Toward Zero Deaths National Strategy, and how the multi-disciplinary strategy is being deployed to improve safety for drivers and passengers, vulnerable road users, vehicles, infrastructure, improved safety management, and a supportive safety culture. In addition, speakers ...
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ABB shares Functional Safety expertise with release of new guide
ABB's new guide ‘A methodology for achieving Functional Safety certification to IEC61508’, provides a detailed explanation of the key areas that users need to consider when designing, implementing and operating a functional safety programme. A new guide explaining all you need to know about Functional Safety is now available from ABB. Entitled ‘A methodology for achieving Functional Safety ...
By ABB
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Mission well services commits to proactive safety management with intelex
In a world of reactive management, where many companies let accidents occur instead of taking proactive measures to ensure they don’t occur, Mission Well Services is setting a new standard. Though it has been in business for just under a year, Mission Well Services, a hydraulic fracturing company based in South Texas and serving the oil and gas industry, has already turned to Intelex ...
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We are committed to quality standards
Implementing an ISO-compliant management system is an organisation-wide target led by top management with the support of all Kurita team members. From March 2018 there is a new health and safety management system standard called ISO 45001, that will replace the current standard BS OHSAS 18001 at Kurita Europe GmbH by April 2020. On the occasion of the implementation of the new ISO 45001 ...
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Lotus Technical services speaks at Irish aviation authority annual health & safety conference
Ann McAnallen (Lotus Technical Services) Health & Safety Officer) gave a presentation to the IAA H&S Conference on the health and safety management aspects of Lotus Technical Services IAA facilities management contract. The presentation included the best practices with regard to Health & Safety that Lotus Facilities Management has brought to the contract surrounding our own H&S ...
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New EU-OSHA report looks at the whole-school approach to OSH and education
To equip young people with the right OSH skills, knowledge and attitudes, risk education should be embedded in the school curriculum, starting at nursery-level. A Whole-School Approach to OSH integrates risk education and school safety and health management throughout the school’s activities and the way it functions, making them part of school life. It also actively involves staff and ...
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Tyrexpo Asia 2021 Goes Hybrid
The organisers of Tyrexpo Asia, scheduled for November 17-19, 2021, have been working closely with the local authorities in Singapore with a view to complying with safety management measures, and arrangements for the show still remain on track. Tyrexpo Asia will proceed as planned if the situation relating to Covid-19 continues to improve, but, in the meantime, a new implementation involving ...
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EHS This Week: Ontario Inspection Blitz Uncovers Thousands of Youth Safety Violations and More!
On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news: NTSB’s “Most Wanted List 2015″ FAA Now Requiring Safety Management Systems for Airlines Ontario Inspection Blitz Uncovers Thousands of youth Safety Violations Listen to the full podcast here! ...
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HazTek, Inc. highlights the benefits of contractor safety management
Bruce Henderson, Principal and COO of HazTek, Inc., discussed the “Benefits of Contractor Safety Management” with the Northern New Jersey Federal Safety & Health Council at their quarterly meeting held on December 3rd, 2008 in Lyndhurst, NJ. Citing the risks associated with multiple contractors on construction sites, Bruce outlined how to reduce accidents and illnesses by identifying ...
By HazTek, Inc
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ASHM Designation Recognizes Safety and Health Professionals
The Associate Safety and Health Manager (ASHM) is a designation administered by the Institute for Safety and Health Management. The ASHM recognizes individuals who possess some combination of formal training and experience that prepares them for safety and health management responsibilities. The ASHM serves to let potential and current employers know that these individuals have been formally ...
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Everything You Need to Know About The FTA’s Public Transportation Safety Program
Early this year, The Federal Transit Administration issued a new framework for mitigating safety risks within public transit as part of the Public Transportation Safety Program. We’ve outlined everything you will need to know about the FTA’s proposed rule: The Public Transportation Safety Program consists of several key elements: The National Public Transportation Safety Plan The ...
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Commercial Fleet: Bretts Transport adopts Microlise telematics to boost safety
Bretts Transport has deployed a new fleet performance and safety management system from transport management solution provider Microlise. The transport operator, based near Peterborough, offers a full logistics and warehousing solution and is a specialist in ambient food and food grade packaging deliveries into supermarket regional distribution centres, food service depots, manufacturers and ...
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Occupational Health and Safety in small companies in a new video by the EU Commision
Accidents at work, stress and occupational sicknesses affect workers’ health. They also come at a cost for businesses, especially for small and micro companies. This video, launched by the EU Commision Audiovisual Services, showcases companies that have developed cost-effective and efficient health and safety management. Each euro invested in preventing work-related illness produces ...
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Intelex partners with airport experts to develop comprehensive FAA SMS solution
Intelex has long had a presence in the aviation and aerospace sector. It’s a presence that is about to get a lot bigger thanks to a unique alliance with two aviation experts. Intelex has partnered with SITA, a global IT provider to the air transport industry, and JDA, a leader in aviation safety, certification and compliance services, to develop a complete airport safety management ...
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ISHM to Exhibit at ASSE’s Safety 2012 Expo
The Institute for Safety and Health Management, who identify professionals through their renowned certification programs, will be exhibiting at the Safety 2012 Conference and Exposition. The conference is an annual event sponsored by The American Society for Safety Engineers (ASSE). The ASSE represents more than 34,000 safety, health and environmental professionals who work across all ...
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Intelex Attending 2008 NAEM EHS Management Forum
Intelex is pleased to announce that we will be a platinum sponsor at NAEM's 16th Annual EHS Management Forum. The forum takes place October 22-24th at The Peabody Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee. For those folks who are interested in learning more about streamlining safety management efforts across multiple sites, Intelex client’s Tyco Flow Control North America will be presenting on “Safety – ...
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