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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance. Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
#4 Communicate Often
Talk! Talk! Talk! The more you talk to your co-workers and staff about safety the more likely they are to implemet and follow procedures. Keep them up to date on new procedures, regualtions and information that affects their safety. Provide feedback, praise safe performance, and discuss areas for improvement. Encourage the flow of communication both ways. Encourage and reward staff for coming up with new safety regualtions and procedures. Brainstorm together for safety ideas and suggestions.
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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance. Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
#3 Analyze Jobs for Safety’s Sake
Know each job in your department so well that you can spot every potential hazard. If a different method will eliminate a hazard, introduce it. If PPE is required, make sure it’s available. And think about housekeeping requirements, too. Sometimes, hazards are created as a by-product of a job-combustible scrap and trash, for example, or tools left lying around where somebody could trip over them.
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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance.
Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
#2 Stress Training
Emphasize employee safety and accident prevention by having regular employee orientations. Follow through with regular safety meetings, informal talks, and required training sessions. Answer employees questions about safety procedures and give them the answers they need to work safely. If you don’t know the answer contact someone who does. Engage your employees in the rules. Rules are less likley to get broken if staff knows and understands why they have been put in place.
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Who can do the most to promote safety in the workplace? YOU! You’re the one employees look to for leadership and guidance. You’re the one management relies on to provide safety training, enforce safety rules, and monitor employee performance.
Each week for the next 12 weeks we will post a new step.
#1 Be a Hazard Detective
Workplace conditions are always changing, so if you let your guard down and take things for granted, a hazard might develop where you least expect it. And you can’t assume everything’s safe just because employees don’t bring hazards to your attention or complain of safety problems. You have to get out there and see for yourself. Take a few minutes every day to conduct a walk-through of the work areas you supervise. Create a checklist to make sure you identify all potential hazards. As you walk around, watch employees working, too. Make sure they’re wearing PPE and following safety procedures. Stop and talk for a minute with key employees to see if anybody’s having any problems.
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It is hard to believe that the 9.0 earthquake that caused the 23 foot Tsuanmi that hit Japan was a year ago on March 11th. It was the most powerful earthquake that ever hit Japan and one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world. Please take a moment to remember those that have lost their lives.
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Recent research shows that 2 out of 5 women having heart attacks don’t feel chest pain. Worse, women are more likely to die in the hospital while having a heart attack. The younger they are, the more likely they will die.
It makes sense. First, we’ve been conditioned for years to think of men when we think of heart attacks. Second, we think of age when we think of heart attacks. Third, we think of chest pain when we think of heart attacks.
A young woman not experiencing chest pain might just have cardiac arrest as her first sign of a heart attack. Not because she wasn’t feeling some sort of discomfort, but because healthcare providers were conditioned to look for other causes of her discomfort.
I hope more research is on its way to help us recognize heart attacks. Chest pain is a good standby and I still say if you have chest pain to call 911 instead of your doctor. Still, that doesn’t mean there aren’t other symptoms besides chest pain that could indicate a heart attack, especially in a pattern we haven’t learned to recognize yet.
It has taken us decades to figure out that women have heart attacks. Years after that before we figured out that women’s heart attacks don’t always feel the same as men. Hopefully we can open our minds to new ideas about heart disease and that just might lead to quicker recognition and more lives saved.
