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4 Steps to Communicating Persuasively on Safety

Safety professionals often complain about how hard it is to get people to listen to them about safety. This is often a subtle sign that it might be time to change how they approach communicating the need for safe behaviours, rather than getting...

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How Great Safety Habits Foster a Healthy Safety Culture

Researchers have found that institutional habits exist in almost every organisation. Interestingly, one of the main differences between a company...

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5 Things Workers Hate about Workplace Safety Speeches

We've all experienced being at a company speech and feeling our anger grow as the company leader waffled on about a whole lot of stuff we knew wasn't...

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Is this the best safety plan ever?

Back in 1987, every Alcoa plant, worldwide, had at least one accident per week. It was dangerous work. Molten metals bubbled at 1,500 degrees and...

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6 Steps to Encourage Staff to Embrace Safety Accountability

If there is one thing that safety managers despair about, the world over, is how to get their staff to be more engaged and responsible for safety.

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6 Items Companies Omit in their Health and Safety Manuals

If you're reading this article, you know that any decent health and safety training manual has to include information such as personal protective...

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Are tyrants threatening staff safety in your company?

On August 5, 1997, Korean Air airplane Flight 801, crashed killing 228 people.

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8 Steps to Leading with Compassion

In a previous article, Why Leading with Compassion is the Future for Business, we talked about how companies that have compassionate leaders are...

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How a Culture of Fear Breeds Dodgy Workplace Practices

Back in the 1970s - 1980s, Jimmy Savile was one of the most famous television presenters on the BBC. An effervescent, eccentric man he hosted "Top of...

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