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The results of Safety+Health’s 2019 Salary Survey are in, including data broken out by job title, experience, region and more. How does your salary stack up?

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“Involved employees” and “engaged employees”: William Bozzo and Donald Groover of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability break down why these terms “are sometimes used interchangeably but are quite different.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Moving the needle on worker engagement
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“Our research and client experience has shown that about 25% of OSHA recordable events have realistic serious injury and fatality exposure potential,” says Don Martin of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability.

Full article: Safety Leadership: Focusing on SIF potential is key to solving them
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“There is no silver bullet for eliminating all error from the workplace,” says Michael Mangan of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability. “However, organizations can put strong defenses in place.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Understand brain functions to understand mistakes
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“Simply requesting that employees ‘remain situationally aware’ is not a strategy informed by science and will always be met with skepticism and flawed execution,” says Rajni Walia of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability. “We need to consider how we can improve situational awareness when it matters most.”

Full article: Safety Leadership: Situational awareness and human performance
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OSHA’s serious injury and fatality reporting requirements have been in effect for four years. Don Martin of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability looks at the numbers and offers suggestions for improving the reporting system.

Full article: Safety Leadership: How to drive OSHA’s efforts to reduce workplace serious injuries and fatalities
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Arlington, VA — The Electrical Safety Foundation International has introduced several resources aimed at workers in “occupations that traditionally receive little to no electrical training.”

Full article: Electrical safety group unveils videos, infographics for workers in non-electrical jobs
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Controlling workplace exposures requires understanding the elements that lead to that exposure, says William Bozzo of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, who identifies seven.

Full article: Safety Leadership: Controlling seven areas of exposure
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“Companies that fail in safety often are those that limit their strategy to ‘quick-fix’ approaches with no long-term vision of what they’re aiming to achieve,” says Guillermo Díaz of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, who poses five questions to safety leaders.

Full article: Safety Leadership: Workplace safety requires leaders invested in the long run
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Washington — NIOSH, OSHA and the Center for Construction Research and Training – also known as CPWR – are offering a number of free online resources to help employers prepare for the sixth annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction, set to take place May 6-10.

Full article: Get ready for the National Safety Stand-Down: Free resources available
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