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The Missing Piece in Preventing Falls From Heights

This is an excerpt from our free safety guide on working at heights. Falls may not be the most common workplace incident, but when they occur they often result in a serious injury or fatality. The hospitalization rate for falls from ladders alone is roughly three times higher than the average injury. When it comes…

3 Concepts That Contribute to a Strong Career in Safety

This is an excerpt from our free guide on building an EHS career. It overviews three essential categories of knowledge that provide the foundation for a career as a safety professional.  Basic safety knowledge To succeed in the field of environmental health and safety, there are some fundamental practices, issues and other pieces of knowledge…

How Do You Avoid Blaming When it Comes to Human Error?

According to Human Factors Investigation and Analysis of Accidents and Incidents, human error accounts for between 60–80% of all accidents and incidents.  That statistic has been the cause of many people falsely believing that behavior-based safety (BBS) programs blame the worker. It has also sparked many human and organizational performance (HOP) supporters to believe that…

How to Tell if Management is Committed to Safety

The difference between safety success and safety failure often hinges on a single issue—management support. Safety attitudes tend to start at the managerial level and then trickle down to supervisors and the rest of the workforce. Employees know if upper managers are committed to safety, and if they’re not then even the most dedicated and…

Danny Smith Injects Human Factors and Personal Safety Into NDSC’s Conference

This February, North Dakota Safety Council is going to host their 45th Annual Safety & Health Conference. This year’s event is the largest of its kind in the region and it will offer valuable networking opportunities and present some inspiring speakers, with SafeStart’s own Danny Smith being one of them. Danny will present three sessions…

Which Topics To Discuss in a Toolbox Talk

Anyone tasked with holding regular safety meetings has run into the problem of exhausting the usual topics. After going on and on about the same safety issues for months on end, they realize that workers have started to tune out. This is especially true for worksites that conduct several short toolbox talks per week. It’s…