Items Tagged with 'Safety excellence'

Are you perceived as a leader who integrates safety into your day-to-day activities and the decisions you make? Or do you sometimes inadvertently convey that safety adds time and costs to a task or process? Pete Batrowny from AES Corp. asks leaders to reflect honestly on the types of messages they send to employees.

Al Zucco from USG Corp. discusses three pillars that help engage all stakeholders in sustainability and reminds us that safety is the cornerstone of what all organizations do.

Cary Usrey from Predictive Solutions discusses how “safety traditionally looks at one metric – injuries – to answer the question, ‘Is it safe?’” and why that may not be enough.

Glenn Murray from ExxonMobil discusses how “the tools and strategies designed to prevent less-severe incidents – like bumps and bruises, or slips, trips and falls – are necessary but probably not sufficient to effectively prevent incidents with the potential for more serious consequences.”

Safety+Health presents Q&As with seven leaders who demonstrate a personal commitment to worker safety and health.

This month, Scott Roberts from Georgia-Pacific shares why “one of the best ways to achieve a successful partnership is to connect with contractors.”

Washington – Three recent studies suggest companies that excel at worker health and safety also thrive in stock market value.

Health happens where we live. It happens where we work, and in our communities. Age, gender and hereditary factors do impact health, but only a small amount. Individual lifestyle factors – the behaviors we engage in every day – have a much greater impact.

This month, Robert Bulger, chief project officer and vice president – HSEQ for WHPacific, writes about taking “into an integrated operations role, ensuring requirements lead into design, which leads into operations, which successfully permeates the culture of the organization.”