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Repeat, Reinforce and Reiterate: Integrating New Hires with Safety Culture

Every year, millions of people are hired to fill vacant positions at companies across North America. Some of them are starting their first job, others are shifting to a different role or company, while still others are changing careers entirely. In the last twelve months, twenty industries were projected to have at least 84,000 new…

Two Crucial Safety Issues for New Hires

Not all new workers are the same, but they do have a lot in common. They lack relevant experience in the workplace they’re at, with the task they’re doing and/or with the team they’re on. They lack crucial hazard recognition abilities. Often, they don’t know what they don’t know. They are, as OSHA says about…

5 Must-Read Safety Articles of 2024

Every year, thousands of safety articles, blog posts, guides and white papers are published. The collective insight provided in all these pieces of writing is staggering. But not all safety content is the same, and a handful of these safety articles always stand out from the crowd thanks to their relevant insights and inspiring advice.…

How to Navigate Ambiguity—a Threat to Stop-Work Authority

On paper, stop-work authority seems simple enough. A worker sees a hazard or unsafe working condition and calls a stop to work so that the dangerous element can be addressed. But as SafeStart consultant Tim Page-Bottorff discusses in a new and insightful article published in the ASSP’s Professional Safety Journal, stop-work authority is threatened by…

How to Achieve the Same Old Workplace Safety for New Workers

It’s common knowledge that inexperienced workers are injured at a higher rate than average. No matter how you look at it, various categories of new workers experience more incidents than others. The CDC notes that young workers, under the age of 25, are treated in emergency rooms 1.5 times more frequently than their older counterparts.…