Fall protection is a critical aspect of ensuring worker safety. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts to implement rigorous safety protocols and provide high-quality fall protection equipment, ...

As safety experts, the task of dramatically lowering workplace accidents and fatalities comes down to the ability to positively change employee workplace behavior. Changing unsafe behavior, of course, ...

Adam Lang said he knew a driver who once forgot about a bunch of points he had built up in the company’s safety incentive program over the span of a year and a half. That driver had enough points to ...

I’ve spent more than 40 years in safety and believe that at the end of the day, most companies want to keep their employees safe and act in good faith to motivate them to follow the rules. Some ...

AS a safety manager, you have probably spent enough time in the trenches to see the ill effects of poorly designed safety incentive programs. I'm speaking of programs that merely reward employees for ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Anyone who has raised kids knows what happens when you give them a ...

Recruiting new police officers and firefighters. It’s an issue plaguing the departments, but has lacked a real solution, ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced that it is softening a hardline approach adopted during the Obama Administration restricting the use of post-accident drug ...

Many professionals have learned about proper management techniques including avoiding negative silo management. What is silo management? One way to look at this often poor management style is when ...

Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Jokinen does a welfare check every 15 minutes in the medical unit of the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center. Many of the people in jail have mental health needs, and a new ...

MANILA, Philippines — While the mining industry has made significant strides in reducing catastrophic accidents, its focus has expanded to include risks associated with the trade that encompass both ...