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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.
“World-class safety” is a frequently heard phrase, but what does it really mean to have a world-class safety program? As Safety+Health found out, the answers are complex.
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.”
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.”
This month, Shelley Brown, SH&E Manager for AECOM, writes about “retooling the metrics we use to highlight new and unexplored strengths and weaknesses” in organizations.