Welcome To Our New Safety Consultant Blog
Welcome to this new blog written by professional safety consultants. We look forward to offering insight and advice to our readers on a variety of occupational safety and health related matters. And we’re not just talking about complying with OSHA regulations (although we will cover that from time to time), but also other aspects of setting up and managing your overall safety program.
We welcome the input and comments of our readers – both those eager to ask us a question or pick just up a tip or two, as well as our fellow safety consultants who’d like to offer their advice. We will address many aspects of safety management, including but not limited to, the roles of safety consultants, safety managers and coordinators, and company managers, written health and safety programs, safety committees, accident investigations, job safety analysis (JSA), behavior-based safety efforts, safety gear, and safety committees . . . to name but a few. Check back soon!
Bravo! This addresses the single greatest obstacle for most businesses, particularly the small business. “I know I should have a safety program, but where do I start?”
How do I write a Health & Safety Plan? What should be in it?
How do I manage the plan once I have one?
Is compliance where I start or is comp and property losses?
What do I measure? How? When?
How do I manage claims or do I just rely on my insurer?
How do I do training and how do I justify taking everyone out of production for 30 minutes?
What’s more effective – weekly toolbox talks or monthly/quarterly in-depth classroom trainings?
How do I get managers and supervisors on board/engaged in a “program”?
How do I bring long-time (i.e., entrenched) and/or complacent employees onboard?
What’s an effective incentive that doesn’t cost a lot or hide incidents and accidents?
Should I investigate every accident? Property damage?
How frequently should we conduct site inspections? What should we look for?
If we do regular site inspections, what do I do with the information once problems are corrected?
When are safety committees helpful and when are they a waste of manpower?
Thanks. This will be a good resource.
Love all of your articles and information. I pass many of them on to safety associates.
Thanks for your reply Joe. Glad to hear the work is appreciated (and shared).