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OSHA - Occupational Safety & Health Administration
Bureau of Labor Statistics - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Safety Council - International public service organization dedicated to educating and influencing people to prevent accidental injuries and deaths.
CDC - Center for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the major operating components of the Department of Health and Human Services.
AIHA - American Industrial Hygiene Association, serving the needs of occupational and environmental health professionals practicing industrial hygiene in industry, government, labor, academic institutions, and independent organizations.
ASTM - American Society for Testing and Materials, open forum for the development of high-quality, market-relevant, international standards used around the globe.
IGA - International Glove Association.
DuPont - DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere.
World Health Organization - WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system.
Voluntary Protective Programs - VPP promotes effective worksite-based safety and health.
Board of Certified Safety Professionals - BCSP is recognized as the leader in high-quality credentialing for safety, health, and environmental practitioners in order to enhance the safety of people, property, and the environment.
Council on Certification of Health, Environmental and Safety Technologists - CCHEST is recognized as the leader in high-quality, third-party accredited health, safety, and environmental credentialing for technologists, technicians, supervisors, and workers.

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Christie Mendola

Translating Safety Training Materials 5 Replies

If you work in an international company, do you translate your safety training materials into the native language of the trainees or customize your programs for each country?

Tagged: translations, training, safety

Started by Christie Mendola. Last reply by Laura Wells Aug 26.

Christie Mendola

Hazard Communication 5 Replies

When training your employees on chemical hazards and MSDS sheets, etc., what do you find are the most useful tactics or tools to use?

Tagged: MSDS, right-to-know, training, safety, communication

Started by Christie Mendola. Last reply by Christie Mendola Jun 18.

Mark Brouwers

CHST exam pointers?? 8 Replies

Does anyone have any pointers for taking the CHST exam?

Started by Mark Brouwers. Last reply by Bonnie Haltom May 10.

Safety Training International

Online OSHA Training 8 Replies

Studies have shown that people are more likely to complete and retain information learned from online training courses as compared to live training. Providing comprehensive online safety training co…

Tagged: osha, courses, training, online, safety

Started by Safety Training International. Last reply by Stormy May 10.

Jennifer Sledziona

Calling All Contractors: Lead Certification Is Now Required By Law

Effective, Today, April 22nd, 2010, a new EPA lead rule takes effect. Contractors performing renovation, repair and painting projects that disturb lead-based paint in homes, child care facilities, an…

Tagged: Painting, and, (RRP), Safety, Safety

Started by Jennifer Sledziona Apr 22.

Christie Mendola

Safety Training Videos 4 Replies

I just posted a blog on safety training videos, inspired by something I read on Safety News Alerts. I'd love to get your feedback.http://bit.ly/clCovx

Tagged: videos, training, safety

Started by Christie Mendola. Last reply by Christie Mendola Apr 22.

Wes Daubenspeck

Focus Four Construction DVD or VHS 2 Replies

Does anyone know of a good video that covers all of the focus four topics?  I've checked with Coastal and Wumbus and so far I've found nothing.  One of my clients wants a single video to cover all fo…

Started by Wes Daubenspeck. Last reply by Peter Altuch Mar 18.

Dan McNeill

Solutions in Safety Training Virtual Symposium From ASSE

Hi, First - full disclosure, I work for ASSE and I apologize in advance for the shameless plug. However, looking at some of the posts here on the value (and pitfalls) around online training, I thoug…

Tagged: ASSE, symposium, conference, training, safety

Started by Dan McNeill Jan 18.

Heather Anderson

Violence in the Workplace is Taking a Deadly Toll

These past few days have been horrific across the U.S. The stunning tragedy at Fort Hood claiming the lives of 13 people along with many injured, and then today’s workplace shooting in Orlando. All t…

Tagged: statistics, scenarios, training, prevention, what

Started by Heather Anderson Nov. 12, 2009.

Lance Johnson

Online / Classroom Training 1 Reply

Online training now available through the J&M Safety site. Visit www.jandmsafety.com. We have also partnered with a certified trainer in North Carolina who offers a variety of safety training in…

Tagged: safety, training, online, osha

Started by Lance Johnson. Last reply by Dena Melancon Oct. 27, 2009.

ASTM International - New and Revised Standards

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Kevin Gilbert Comment by Kevin Gilbert on May 15, 2010 at 10:31pm
Incentives can cause people to hide injuries and can undermine reporting badly! I would go very lightly with Incentives. That's just my viewpoint. They don't really go toward promoting a Safety Culture Christie.
Mike Maloney Comment by Mike Maloney on May 14, 2010 at 1:52pm
Christie,
Online training can be effective for some. It gives them the ability to move at their own pace and to review points that are more confusing on a first read. What it lacks is the non-verbal feedback that lets me know that they really understand what they just read vs. being able to quickly answer from a multiple choice menu.

I always try to drop in on students taking any computer training to see if they have any questions and to discuss points that I feel are most critical. Having built a level of trust with them, they know that I will do my best to respond to their questions. I've even had a couple catch errors in a procedure that was missed in the most recent update.
Christie Mendola Comment by Christie Mendola on May 7, 2010 at 2:57pm
Do you think online safety training is as effective as in-person, classroom-style training?
Christie Mendola Comment by Christie Mendola on April 19, 2010 at 9:22am
How can you make safety training more effective? http://bit.ly/bhhLhu
Steven Geigle Comment by Steven Geigle on March 18, 2010 at 7:48am
Hi All! Just wanted to recommend books by Aubrey Daniels that help in designing, developing, deploying, delivering, and duplicating (5D Process) successful recognition and incentive programs.
Mike Maloney Comment by Mike Maloney on March 17, 2010 at 10:44pm
We didn't shut down for a meeting but made the supervisor write an incident report. We treated it the same as a 'real' incident. Our definition of near miss was one that, "under slightly different circumstances" would have resulted in serious injury or property damage. If you went to plant medical... it was followed up with a report.
Ray Butler Comment by Ray Butler on March 16, 2010 at 3:21pm
I have found near miss reporting logs are a great tool in the safety manager’s toolbox; however like most tool they can be miss-used. I agree they can show us trends or processes that may need to be corrected, so that we are proactive in managing safety. On the other hand I’ve worked for are large corporation, that required us to have a all hands safety stand down meeting and discuss what had happen, and what we were going to do to fix it. What end up happening, the work force stops reporting near misses so that they would not have to be inconvenienced with shutting down and going to a meeting.
What I do now is require the project manager, foreman and competent person to each log nears misses and perform there own investigation and determine what the severity would be if it didn’t miss. After they have determine the severity; Equipment damage, personnel injury and cost. After they have determined what could have happen and they feel that I need to get involved in investigation, training or disciplinary actions, I will go out to that site and take actions.
As far incentive programs I feel there too costly and the employees end up not reporting injuries. We had Safety Bingo program, we went a whole year with no near misses no first aids and no lost time. Look great on paper our Corp office loved the program our customer thought it was great! Until 3 weeks after we hit our year, one of our first claims came in for a torn rotator cuff tear. The guy was reaching and pulling objects to him a self and felt burning in his shoulder about nine months in to the safety bingo and he did want to ruin his changes for the grand prize of $5000.00 dollars cash!!!! Of course I had to deal with another injury not reported because they wanted to when Safety Bingo.
Dennis Barnett CSP Comment by Dennis Barnett CSP on March 15, 2010 at 10:43am
Also with a near miss reporting program it can help to predicted where the next First Aid or Recordable incident might occur. That way a company is being proactive toward incidents verse reactive.

I agree that a "rewards program" doesn't have to be big. As mentioned below a simple thanks for doing it right/safely or a small token for the coffee/vending machines works just as well.
Christie Mendola Comment by Christie Mendola on March 15, 2010 at 9:19am
The near miss reporting program is an interesting idea. Sounds like it would be more successful than an incentive program with group prizes, etc.
Mike Maloney Comment by Mike Maloney on March 12, 2010 at 4:19pm
I have to agree. Incentives tend to inhibit reporting of incidents. Nobody wants to be the one to cost your team/department/shift/plant the big reward. What can work is simple little awards such as free coffee tokens when you see someone doing something safely. Even just recognizing someone by commenting that they did it right goes a long way.

You're right, Jay, in that Near Miss reporting is important. Effective root-cause analysis and irreversible corrective actions are critical.
 

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