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King's Cross station - A Safety Accident Case Study
One November evening in 1987, commuters were busily rushing home from work on the London Underground.
CEOs and executives
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Top 29 Catchy Safety Slogans
When it comes to getting staff to remember your important safety messages, using a safety slogan can be an effective way of getting the message...
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10 Ways to make your Safety Culture Suck
Are your safety efforts are stuck in the past? Unfortunately, some companies think of safety as an afterthought ensuring that it is never fully...
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4 Steps to Leverage Group Behaviour to Improve Safety
We've all experienced the critical, negative work colleague who puts a dampener on everything. They complain about the boss, other staff members,...
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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...
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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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Are tyrants threatening staff safety in your company?
On August 5, 1997, Korean Air airplane Flight 801, crashed killing 228 people.