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    Comprehensive accident investigations are critical to preventing accidents from re-occuring.  Yet most accident investigation reports that I review are incomplete and/or poorly done. Improve the quality of your accident investigations by holding your investigators accountable for their accident investigations, and then evaluating and rating their accident investigation reports. Here’s a free Incident Report Evaluation form that you ...

    We can learn much by reviewing accident investigation reports on serious injury accidents!   By understand the causes of horrible accidents that have already occurred we can take steps to prevent similar accidents from happening in the future.  I like to say “what has happened can happen“, and “those who do not understand the past are doomed to ...

    Getting an injured worker back to work as soon as possible after an on-the-job injury is an important way to control the cost of a workers compensation claim.   Offering  light duty to an employee who is released to return to work with medical restrictions can reduce the impact of that claim on future insurance premiums ...

    One of the leaders of the safety management movement during the 1960′s – 1980′s was D. A. Weaver.   D.A., and his close friend Dan Petersen,  re-invented the theory and practice of occupational safety.   A safety management guru,  Mr Weaver was know for such sayings as  - “Safety really is nothing more than ...

    At many employers,  their biggest accident prevention challenge is how to deal with ”accident repeaters”.  The problem will not go away by itself.  An intervention strategy must be developed to stop the pattern before serious injuries occur! In most cases, the cause of the employees’ problem is temporary.  I have seen medical, family, financial, drugs, alcohol, mental, marital, and legal problems as the factor that ...

    In today’s economy, some employees may feel compelled to turn in fraudulent workers compensation claims.  In some cases there may exist an economic incentive for employees to try to get their non-work injury covered by workers compensation insurance.  For example, if an employer does not offer health insurance benefits, the employee may feel that ...

    Under certain circumstances in the USA, your company may not be responsible to pay workers compensation benefits to an employee who was injured on the job.   These special circumstances vary from state to state, but generally these exceptions include: Work related injuries caused by a dangerous or defective machine, tool or piece of ...

    There’s a quick and easy fix any company can do to improve the quality of their accident investigatons.  I’ve seen this simple technique dramatically improve the accidents records at three companies.  Is this a magic pill that will turn around a poorly performing safety program?  Maybe!  In the early 1980′s I was hired to help an air ...

    Major workplace accidents that result in serious injuries (including deaths) are stressful, confusing, and chaotic emergencies.   Fortunately, these catastrophic events are rare and most of us have little (or no) experience with them.  But should one happen on your watch, what would you do?  To help you cope with one of these rare traumatic events, I’ve listed the following fourteen ...

  Barricade tape is an indispensable safety product that every safety professional should have on hand at all times.  This tape can prevent accidents by providing a highly visible warning of temporary hazards.  It can be put up quickly by tying it, nailing it, or stapling it to a fixed object.  – Below are a couple of uses for barricade tape that ...