We recently sat down with construction industry safety professionals Steve Mellard, National Safety Director at Anning Johnson, and Desire’e Ropel, Safety Manager at Hermanson to dive into how construction companies can avoid pitfalls, leverage success and successfully create a safety program to truly improve safety in the construction industry and in the workplace. The session covered numerous subjects of discussion including: […]
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Safeguard Management: Preventive & Mitigative Safety Tool
What is a Safeguard? Safeguards are vital for businesses to safely control the work environment for risk reduction and failure prevention. Rather than being reactive and reflective of failures in safety, safeguards are conscious plans in place which identify these potential risks and hazards and implement the controls necessary to prevent the negative instance from […]
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): What It Is and Why It Matters for Safety on Your Site
Construction sites come with risks. As noted by Industrial Safety & Hygiene News, one in every 10 employees is injured annually on worksites, leading to a non-fatal injury rate 71 percent higher than in any other industry. Taking steps to prevent these injuries such as prioritizing proper Personal Protective Equipment offers multiple benefits for companies: Staff […]
Essential Ingredient in Food Safety: Making the Most of GMP
Informed by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), manufacturers are required to implement processes that actively reduce the risk of foodborne illness, both from known pathogens and unknown agents. These processes are critical to track the type and nature of these illnesses and mitigate their impact — according to the CDC, 48 million Americans fall ill […]
The Pros and Cons of Behavior Based Safety
The corporate world is full of business improvement programs. Sometimes their adoption is a must to survive in a competitive industry or market, other times they are a passing phase better avoided. In this post, we look at the pros and cons and Behavior Based Safety (BBS). What is Behavior Based Safety (BBS)? Before jumping […]
The 5 Biggest Challenges When Building a Safety Observation Report (Solved)
Workplace safety is critical to ensure both employee protection and productivity — staff missing work because they’ve suffered injuries on the job can negatively impact both staff morale and overall output. As noted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, however, workplace safety remains a challenge: In 2019 alone, more than 880,000 workers suffered nonfatal […]
How Certainty helped an award-winning grocer’s Covid-19 response
Longo’s Brothers Fruit Market (“Longo’s”) is a family-owned Canadian grocer that started in 1956 when three brothers, Tommy, Joe, and Gus opened their first fruit market. What began as a small family-run store has since grown to a company that operates 36 stores in communities across Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area, as well as Grocery […]
St John’s Packaging Choose Certainty for Safety Inspections
Certainty Software for safety management Audits St. Johns Packaging is an international manufacturer of flexible plastic packaging based in Canada. They play a vital role in food and medical supply chain from manufacturing facilities across the world. With over 150 employees, SJ Packaging helps customers pack, protect, preserve, and sell their products. The films, bags, […]
What Impact Will Technology Have on your BBS Program?
In this blog series, we will explore what impact technology will have on your BBS program. We have spoken with industry professionals Joseph Braun, EHS Manager at Ferrara Candy Company; John Peoples, Global EHS Manager at Huntsman Corporation; and Chad Rasmussen, EHS Manager at Cardinal Health to get an insider look on how to manage […]
Where do BBS Programs Typically Fail?
In this blog series, we will explore where BBS programs typically fail. We have spoken with industry professionals Joseph Braun, EHS Manager at Ferrara Candy Company; John Peoples, Global EHS Manager at Huntsman Corporation; and Chad Rasmussen, EHS Manager at Cardinal Health to get an insider look at how to manage an effective Behavior Based […]
Why Goodman Telecom Services Choose Certainty for Safety Inspections
Goodman Telecom Services (GTS) is a US-based technology service company that designs, builds, permits, engineers, and optimizes state-of-the-art wireless networks and provides cell site maintenance solutions for both wireless and wireline technologies. With a workforce of over 400 telecom professionals and W-2 technicians, Goodman Telecom provides services to network operators, OEMs ,and enterprise clients and […]
How to Avoid ‘Pencil Whipping’ with BBS Programs?
The act of certifying and approving documents or audits without knowing or reviewing what is being approved is also known as pencil whipping. Pencil whipping has hindered many businesses’ success in their Behavior Based Safety (BBS) Programs because of the results of implementing false or inaccurate data. We spoke with industry professionals Joseph Braun, EHS […]
How to Avoid the BBS ‘Blame Game’
In this blog series, we ask industry experts how to avoid the BBS ‘blame game’ to support the successful implementation of a Behavioral Based Safety (BBS) program. We have spoken with industry professionals Joseph Braun, EHS Manager at Ferrara Candy Company; John Peoples, Global EHS Manager at Huntsman Corporation; and Chad Rasmussen, EHS Manager at […]
3 Tips to Increase Buy-in and Effectiveness of a BBS program
In this blog series, we will explore some tips to increase the buy-in and the effectiveness of a BBS program. We have spoken with industry professionals Joseph Braun, EHS Manager at Ferrara Candy Company; John Peoples, Global EHS Manager at Huntsman Corporation; and Chad Rasmussen, EHS Manager at Cardinal Health to get an insider look […]
How Has Technology Changed Construction Safety?
How Has Technology Changed Construction Safety? In this blog – our 7th in this series – we’ll be looking at safety in the construction industry. Construction is one of the most danger-prone industries there is – responsible for approximately 1 in 5 workplace fatalities. How can construction companies successfully create a safety program and achieve […]
