Every Friday we pass on a few health and safety resources we enjoyed throughout the week in a “Best of the Week” post.
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Health & Safety Links
Creating a Safety Culture Hinges on Buy-in From Frontline Employees
Knowledge at Work
Since safety professionals can’t be everywhere at once, encouraging front-line employees to participate in observation-based safety programs is critical to spotting and addressing unsafe conditions. Employees should be able to submit observations on unsafe conditions, people, processes, incidents and injuries in a non-punitive, systematic fashion …
Building a Successful Wellness Program Takes Guts, Grits and Compassion
EHS Today
Getting a company wellness program off the ground is no easy task. In the face of skeptical senior executives and ever-tightening budgets, wellness-program leaders must be champions of their cause, leveraging opportunities as they come …
Using the Power of Marketing to Engage Employees in Worksite Wellness
TotalWellnessUS
Are you effectively marketing your worksite wellness program? Research shows the answer is probably no. Aon Hewitt’s 2012 Health Care Survey reports that only 17% of surveyed employers use consumer marketing techniques when promoting their wellness program …
Maximum Human Performance
From the Ergonomics Plus blog
From the Ergonomics Plus blog this week:
