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Epiroc Found a Way to Bubble Wrap Their Employees for Safety

Many safety pros wish they could “bubble wrap” their workers to keep them safe because at times it feels like it would be so much easier than trying to keep them engaged in safety training. While literally using transparent plastic packaging material on employees is not the end goal safety pros are looking for, the…

How Passion for Safety Can Lead To an EHS Career

The bright glow of molten steel, white-hot steam billowing from ladles, the loud crash of a charge in a furnace, the electrode buzz, occasional bursts of fiery sparks—this picture only skims the surface when it comes to why steel mills are considered risky business. High risk equates to a high number of safety procedures and…

High Liner Foods Discovers Zero Accidents Is Possible

There’s no doubt that safety is important—companies invest in safety training to see improvements in injury rates and the well-being of their employees. Safety training can also increase productivity, improve morale and decrease downtime, all of which reduce costs to the company. But most safety training isn’t a “one and done” process. Even though you…

Bottling Safety Success at Heineken Brazil

This excerpt from the Heineken Brazil safety case study demonstrates the role safety leadership and employee initiatives play in sustaining safety initiatives. To ensure the success of SafeStart at Heineken Brazil, the office headquarters in São Paulo and Jacareí became involved with training. This included the direct involvement of the HR Corporate Manager and the…

Sound Advice for Safety Culture Excellence

At the 2016 Safety Leadership Conference in Pittsburgh, in a session called Advice from America’s Safest Companies, Scot Forge’s Manager of Safety & Environmental John P. McGillivray explained how Scot Forge reached safety culture excellence. The road to a stronger safety culture runs directly through a company’s safety program. So what program did McGillivray attribute…

GH Metal’s Solution to Personal Safety

When we first shared how GH Metal Solutions relied on SafeStart to improve safety (with a 61% drop in incident rates) and quality and productivity (a 24% reduction in defects), we emphasized the organizational benefits of human factors safety training. And it’s true that the numbers in the GH Metal safety case study are impressive.…

Givaudan’s Sweet Safety Success

Givaudan is a global giant in the fragrance and flavor manufacturing business. With operations on six different continents, Givaudan employs nearly 10,000 workers. The company takes workplace safety extremely seriously. So when Givaudan noticed in 2009 that 26% of its total lost-time injuries occurred in Latin America, it was clear that something had to be…

GH Metal Found SafeStart to be the Solution

We had a record year for quality and production as well as a record safety year last year. Our incident rate dropped dramatically—it’s decreased by 61%. One area we’ve improved the most is close calls— actually reporting them and having the confidence to say ‘this almost happened’ or ‘look how close this was because of…

Brewing A Better Safety Record

Heineken is one of the most internationally recognized brands. But creating such a world-famous product requires rigorous business standards. From quality to safety, Heineken always strives to be best in class. When the company’s Brazilian operations experienced a couple dozen recordable incidents in 2012, the brewing giant turned to SafeStart for help with injury reduction…

Plymouth Tube Steels Safety Excellence

Performance matters. So when your products end up in high-performing NASCAR engines, airplanes and hydraulic devices, you have a pretty good idea of why performance is so important. That’s the case with Plymouth Tube’s Streator mill, which creates state-of-the-art precision steel tubing and engineered shapes in steel and titanium. There was just one area where…

Forging Safety Success as One of America’s Safest Companies

When Scot Forge was given the America’s Safest Companies award in late 2014, it was the culmination of years of work spent improving safety. The company ships over 250 million pounds of forged material every year and in 2010 the company recognized that it needed a safety program that’s as tough as the metal they…

Municipal Council Saves Money with Safety

The Ku-ring-gai Council provides civic leadership, planning and development for over 100,000 people living in Sydney, Australia’s leafy North Shore. Despite concerted efforts to reduce workplace injuries through training and updated safety management systems, Ku-ring-gai Council wasn’t satisfied with the results of its injury prevention efforts. After spending over 5% of its payroll on workers’…