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
Workplace Safety Doesn’t Cost, It Pays
Knowledge at Work
Work-related fatality and injury rates are declining nationally, indicating we are on the right track with prevention and incident management. However, there were 4,693 fatal work-related injuries and nearly 3 million non-fatal workplace injury and illnesses reported by private industry in 2011, according to the most current data available from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics …
How Did Safety Miss the Boat?
EHS Today
Safety and sustainability seem like a natural fit. After all, can a company really be considered “sustainable” if it has a poor record in occupational safety and health? Along the same lines, should a new building be eligible for LEED certification if workers were killed or seriously injured during its construction? …
The Danger of Compliance
Safety Culture Excellence
The goal of many safety programs is to get all workers and the workplace into compliance with applicable rules and regulations. This is a necessary and foundational step in any effective safety effort. However, if the goals and progression stop at compliance, this can cause crucial problems for the future. Once the workplace passes muster and workers know and adhere to the rules, then what? The next steps in safety must take the organization beyond the performance levels achieved through compliance. These steps require much more of workers than simply following the rules …
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From the Ergonomics Plus blog
From the Ergonomics Plus blog this week:
