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January 22, 2020
Mobile games help employers teach potential recruits about construction safety and building protocols

Mobile games help employers teach potential recruits about construction safety and building protocols

True safety culture is of open learning and development. Do you see an employee playing a mobile game? Don't assume they're not working. They could be engaged in some innovative safety training by using modern methods of gamification.
January 21, 2020
The Navy Way: How to Ratchet Up Your Organization’s Safety Culture

The Navy Way: How to Ratchet Up Your Organization’s Safety Culture

Can an organization have a split focus towards both safety culture and efficient operations? By focusing on operational precision and the performance of your team, complete organizational safety can be achieved.
October 24, 2019

What leaders get wrong about emotional intelligence (and 3 ways to improve it)

The concept of emotional intelligence took a foothold in the 1990s and is considered one of the top skillsets among leaders today. Using emotional intelligence accurately, leaders thrive. Without it, they fail. Communication can suffer and productivity takes a hit. This is the era of emotional intelligence: use it or lose it.
October 23, 2019

The Devastating Consequences of Ignoring Workplace Ergonomics

Here's a shocking statistic: over 45,000 people are killed from opioid overdoses each year in the United States. That's over 100 deaths per day.
October 23, 2019

Using Technology to Improve Safety

Technology is leading the way in safety leadership. It can have a huge impact in the safety training of employees across many industries.
October 18, 2019

Leveling up recruiting and safety with gaming apps

Mobile games promote sustained usage by promising rewards, levels, and bonuses for clearing hurdles and safety challenges placed throughout the game.
October 16, 2019

How To Instill Psychological Safety And Trust In Teams

I believe trust is an indispensable component of a successful team. In 1999, Amy Edmondson wrote a research paper on learning behavior in work teams and concluded that "building trust may be an essential part of creating a climate of psychological safety."
September 24, 2019

Are Safety Leaders Up to the Challenge?

While the variety of work is developing, maintaining employees safety on the job remains the unchanging purpose of all types of safety leadership. You might think that if you asked 1,500 safety training professionals a question, you’d get 1,500 different answers, but as it turns out that’s not the case. Far and away, the most popular answer to that inquiry
September 17, 2019

Virtual reality training could improve employee safety

A new investigation suggests worker safety culture could be enhanced through the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in Health and Safety training, such as fire evacuation exercises.