Every week, we scour the internet for the best new OHS articles and resources (so you don’t have to), and share what we find in a “Best of the Week” post.

Ergonomics Articles

1. 8 Compelling Reasons to Implement Job Rotation in Your Workplace 
If you haven’t implemented job rotation in your workplace, consider these eight compelling reasons to get started today.

2. How Leaders Can Achieve and Sustain Safety Excellence 
Leaders can achieve more in safety excellence by focusing on what they want employees to do instead of what they don’t want them to do, Shawn Galloway, president, ProAct Safety, said at the 2013 IADC Drilling Onshore Conference in Houston on 16 May. In this exclusive video, Mr Galloway speaks with Drilling Contractor associate editor Joanne Liou about how leaders can enhance their role in sustaining safety excellence.

3. ASSE: Maximizing Our Capabilities 
In a letter to ASSE members, new ASSE president Michael Belcher writes, “To fully realizes our potential to influence outcomes on a global scale, we must continue to reshape the OHS profession.”

4. The Power of Operational Learning 
In this article on EHS Today, Bob Edwards writes, “there is a need for much better operational learning in most organizations. Operational learning is very different from organizational learning. Organizational learning is more about leadership classes, presentation skills, business and interpersonal training and so forth .. Operational learning, on the other hand, is focused on how work actually happens. It’s about the complexity of work, the adaptive nature of workers attempting to complete their tasks and about how failure and success really occur in the field where the work is completed, not how we think it occurs.”

5. 5 Common Misconceptions About Job Rotation  
Do you hold any of these common misconceptions about job rotation? Read this article to learn the most common misconceptions about job rotation and get the facts.