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How can Safety Management Software help you Achieve Regulatory Compliance?
Achieving compliance with environmental health and safety regulations is one of the key responsibilities of individuals in Environmental Health and Safety positions. This article examines the way in which safety management software allows organizations to achieve and/or exceed regulatory compliance. Regulatory compliance (especially on-site audits by regulatory authorities) often focuses on ...
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Workplace safety in the economic slump
As we progress through the current downturn in our economy companies are finding ways to cope with such effects as declining revenues, reduced workforces and tight-to-non-existent credit. With organizations facing new challenges in order to remain afloat and sustainable, many areas of operation have begun to experience some effects. One such area that is critical to an organization’s success but ...
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Culture clash: Use training to build your safety culture
Culture is the tendency in all of us to want to do the right thing in the right way at the right time, ALL the time — even when no one is looking. Culture is the result of all the actions and inactions in institutional and work force memory. Good cultures evolve from common values and attitudes developed as the group seeks to properly solve common problems; it is hard to measure and more ...
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Empowering safety programs with real-time data visualization
An ongoing reality for safety managers and frontline personnel in almost any industry is the need to record safety incident data. When all incident data is inputted into a centralized database, a safety coordinator doesn’t have to wait for the completion of monthly safety reports to identify trends and weaknesses within an organization’s safety program. Rather, since a robust incident ...
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What Is a HAZOP?
Major Accident Hazards and critical safety issues are inherent in the processes involved in refining, mining, chemical and other primary —particularly if those processes don’t work as planned. Process safety risk can multiply across each process within a facility and across every facility within a large national or multinational corporation, and even one small incident can lead to a ...
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Redlist Health & Safety App Reduces Incidents by 50% - Case Study
Steel Manufacture, Portage Indiana Situation A global steel production company with sites in the US and over 90 years in the business has 53,000 employees globally. The company has a wide scope, handling everything from the mining of raw iron ore to all levels of steel production. Many organizations rate them as one of the best steel companies in the world. To continue operating at such a high ...
By Redlist
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3 Things You Need to Know About Safety Management Software
As a safety professional, you should always be on the lookout for the latest tools to help grow your safety program. When you create a strong health and safety culture, your organization is destined to achieve sustainability. Having the right resources - like software automation - plays a key role in helping you reach this success. Here are three things you need to know about safety software, ...
By EHS Insight
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Three Best Ways to Utilize Technology in EHS
Big or small, there’s no doubt that technology affects and challenges the way your business operates more and more every day. So what separates the strong from the weak? Success from failure? Throwing it back to ancient Greece, philosopher Heraclitus said, “All is flux, nothing stays still – there is nothing permanent except change.” Evolve, adapt, progress, change! ...
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Three Best Ways to Utilize Technology in EHS
Big or small, there’s no doubt that technology affects and challenges the way your business operates more and more every day. So what separates the strong from the weak? Success from failure? Throwing it back to ancient Greece, philosopher Heraclitus said, “All is flux, nothing stays still – there is nothing permanent except change.” Evolve, adapt, progress, change! ...
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5 Ways Your EHS Spreadsheet is Costing You Money
If your organization is like many, you may still be using a complex set of spreadsheets, emails and macros to manage your health and safety program. After all, that’s how you’ve been managing your EHS program for years, and for years that home grown solution has been “good enough.” But sometimes good enough is not really good enough when you consider the cost ...
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5 Ways Your EHS Spreadsheet is Costing You Money
If your organization is like many, you may still be using a complex set of spreadsheets, emails and macros to manage your health and safety program. After all, that’s how you’ve been managing your EHS program for years, and for years that home grown solution has been “good enough.” But sometimes good enough is not really good enough when you consider the cost implications. ...
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Don’t Let Training Hold Your Safety Culture Back
People are the most important resource for any company, no matter the industry. Because of this, ensuring that people resources are working efficiently and effectively should be a universal executive priority. Sadly one element of that workforce productivity that falls through the cracks is corporate safety culture. Creating a culture of safety requires a deep understanding of the ...
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The Future of the Technology and Compliance Landscape
Bar none, the biggest change we are seeing in the world right now is the accelerating degree of connectivity we all have as consumers. In fact, research shows that this connectivity has grown past a trend and is now our new normal. The growth curve of internet adoption is staggering. The analyst, Mary Meeker, compiled some fascinating metrics in her 2015 internet trends report. In the study ...
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Safety Leadership in the Workplace
Employees are most productive in a workplace that is safe, healthy, and in a conducive environment. While it may not be possible to keep workplace injuries and illnesses at zero, it is possible to minimize them, and that is what safety leadership is all about. As a safety leader, you will be expected to identify and control workplace hazards with the goal of achieving safety excellence. This can ...
By EHS Insight
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Weight Loss, Safety and Behavioral Modeling
Throw out your scale and stop weighing yourself. It’s not about the numbers it’s about a lifestyle change. For any of us who have tried to lose a few pounds we’ve been given some version of that advice. It’s good advice as well. One of the main challenges that people face when trying to lose weight is being distracted (and frustrated) by the numbers. The numbers on a ...
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PSM: Just another Government Regulation, or Industry Best Practice?
Process Safety Management (PSM) is addressed by OSHA in their standard for highly hazardous chemicals (29 CFR 1910.119). If the standard applies to your company, you likely already know a fair bit about the 14 elements of PSM and how they work together to manage hazards and minimize risk. However, increasingly companies are turning to PSM as a best practice, regardless of whether they are engaged ...
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How to Evolve Safety from Protection to Prevention to Prediction
I’m in the market to buy a new car. My shopping experience thus far has led me to be absolutely amazed by how much has changed in the automobile landscape in just a few years. The vehicle I’m replacing is only 6 years old, but in terms of technology and capability it already feels like an antique. One observation that stands out is the amazing pace of change in car safety. Automobile ...
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Heres a Safety Message for Truck Drivers & Fleets: Be Proactive!
Staying safe is one of the top challenges that companies in dangerous industries must address. All companies work to have safety policies in place, rules drivers should live by, processes to live by, toll free numbers; the list goes on and on. Yet despite this “safety first” mentality, many companies are still struggling with safety. Why? All of their strategies are passive in ...
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Incident Management Made Simple
No matter how many safety meetings you hold or how many safety policies your company strives to implement, accidents and injuries are bound to happen eventually. In some cases, these slips, falls and injuries are unpreventable, but incident management software may be able to reduce and even eliminate workplace incidents. Incident Management Software for EHS While an accident occurring in ...
By EHS Insight
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Is there any other professional discipline that struggles for identity as much as EHS, HSE, SHE, QEHS, HSSE, etc…?
In a recent blog post Enhesa invited readers to participate in a short four question survey to examine if there was anything approaching a consensus regarding the acronyms used within the industry in their job titles and daily roles. In this article we will examine the responses from more than 100 people from across the occupational health, safety and environmental management community who ...
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