... Session No. 753 Rounding Up the Last Cowboys: Using Positive Reinforcement to Get Construction Workers Involved in Your Safety Effort David M. Sims, Sr., Executive Vice President The Bill Sims Company, Inc. Irmo, South Carolina Introduction Construction workers have a reputation as independent...

... employer designer safety resource end user safety effort responsibility hierarchy constructor construction design maintainer hazard Session No. 769 Design for Safety Gary Cunningham, CSP Boston, MA Jason Edic, CSP Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. Quincy, MA Introduction The authors have a combined...

... that those resources are limited. Let s assume that for every task on a construction project there are 100 units of safety effort available. Those 100 units can be used anywhere in the entire construction cycle to ensure a safe operation. Let s also assume that the 100 units exist from project inception...

.... Participating individuals will leave with a personal scorecard indicating where their organization might be relative to these key elements. leadership business element key word injury action plan safety effort hazard safety organization demonstrate indicator compliance audit illness...

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... getting a good benchmark to judge the safety efforts of your team and organization? If you are using OSHA statistics as the sole basis for your benchmarking, without consideration for key risk and claims metrics, you may not be doing your organization any favors, because OSHA statistics only tell part...

... "If you always do what you did, you will always get what you got!" As safety professionals, we are all looking for different ways to effectively communicate with others to develop employee ownership for the safety efforts within our organization. We review and dissect both the traditional...

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... companies have tried to grapple with how to address it as part of their overall safety efforts. Some safety professionals are struggling with how to implement the standard at their organizations; however there are some straightforward actions that can be taken to bring to the organization the benefits...

... allocated to each outstanding share of common stock. EPS serves as an indicator of a company's profitability. Exercise caution describing the project s impact on EPS unless you are expecting really huge returns on your safety efforts because very large companies have a substantial amount of outstanding...

..., companies are encouraged to ensure that measuring a safety effort or hazard control is a worthwhile venture. Investing time and resources to see how well a useless safety initiative is performing is an exercise in futility that can only harm the safety professional s credibility and tarnish upper management...

...Session No. 761 Why Safety Efforts Fail: Four Serious, Common, and Persistent Mistakes in Safety Management James Loud, CSP, MS, MPH Consultant, Safety Management & Assessment Creede, Colorado Introduction Over and over again many well-intended and otherwise well run companies fail to achieve even...

.... Safety is also measured by lagging indicators which are ok for accountability but not especially useful for improvement. ecordable and severity rates are an indicator of how successful safety efforts are. Total cost of afety "nonconformance" i.e. the cost of hurting people and reporting to the government...

... supervisor transformational leadership machine learning safety performance information safety effort safety recognition exposure focus credibility safety system Session No. 635 Exposing Accidents: Moving Safety Focus from Likelihood to Exposure James B. Spigener Vice President BST, Inc. Ojai, CA...

... and your company into the red, totally ignore your responsibilities. Line Management Support The first step in any successful safety effort is to enlist the support of line management. I often hear, "Management doesn t support me or my safety efforts." Management supports safety to the degree it receives...

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.... However, as companies mature, most realize that these regulations are minimal in many instances. Indeed, the standards fail to address many aspects of the operations that expose employees and the company to potential harm. The company’s safety efforts evolve from an attitude of “if only we could comply...

.... The most important factors, as demonstrated by scientific research, are management commitment to the safety effort and employee participation (Erickson, 1997; Most, 1999). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recognized the paramount importance of the role of management...

... and "inclusiveness" of the company's safety effort; and (3) the dedication of all employees to the total elimination of injuries and occupational illnesses. This paper describes these three elements in more detail and explains how they have been leveraged at DuPont to position safety as a strategic business issue...