Safety Posts
Adding an Employee Recognition Program For Safety
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. In this article, we will look at the structure of disciplinary policy and then discuss implementing a successful employee recognition program to improve project safety performance. Typically, the two things that come to mind about employee recognition are progressive discipline and incentives. The construction industry ...
Groundhog Day on the Job
By Brandon Strawder, The RIDGEPRO®. Decrease instances of injury on your job site. In the movie, Groundhog Day, Bill Murray’s weatherman character, Phil, does just about everything he can think of to break out of the vicious loop he’s trapped in, even kidnapping the famous Punxsutawney groundhog. Once Phil has finally learned ...
A Common Goal to Building a World-class Safety Program
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. If you are roofing contractor attempting to build a world-class safety program, you must recognize the need to build a safety culture. You can substitute grow, develop, establish, create or another word to put in front of culture, but the important word is culture. It is ...
Must Accidents Happen?
By Brandon Strawder, The RIDGEPRO®. Five tips for staying safe on a roof. To a home or commercial building owner, roofers often make the job look easy. They scurry up ladders and along steep surfaces carrying tools and materials. Shingles mount up in neat rows across hips and through valleys. The casual ...
National Ladder Safety Month: The Perfect Time to “Step Up” Employee Training
150+ workplace fatalities and 22,000 injuries can be prevented. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ladder deaths accounted for 161 on-the-job fatalities in 2020, the most recent year for which statistics are available. That same year, there were 22,710 ladder-related workplace injuries, an injury stat that has remained relatively ...
World Class in Safety – Part Three
Learn about all of the key components of a great safety management system, including how to document activities and perform a gap analysis. In Part Three, we will continue discussing implementing a safety management system (SMS). Please refer to Parts One and two if you are new to this series. ...
World Class in Safety – Part Two
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. Here are the key elements every great safety management system should have. In Part One of this series, we looked at the definition and goals of a world-class safety organization in our industry. In Part Two, we will learn about the elements and implementation of a ...
Safety Incident Management System
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. What is an incident management system (IMS), and what value will it bring to your company's health and safety program? Our goal in this article is to answer that question. First, let's look at how an IMS system will assist your company in facilitating the ...
World Class in Safety – Part One
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group. Learn more about what it means to achieve world-class levels of performance in safety. Many companies claim they have achieved world-class levels of performance in safety. What do they mean by world-class in safety? Let's look into what they mean by this claim of having achieved ...
Psychological Safety in the Workplace
By Karen L. Cates, PhD In a psychologically safe workplace, employees feel confident that no one on their team will embarrass or punish anyone else for pointing out a mistake or asking a question In the past, I’ve written about the need to get into the mind and the heart of the ...
