SAFETY: Strategic, Tactical, and Personal

Workplace safety has many different facets. I've found in my work with companies across the country that the focus on safety is often directly correlated with an individual's responsibilities. Three facets are directly related to the business of safety: strategic, tactical, and personal. Executives and senior managers are often concerned about the strategy, or big picture, of how safety fits into the overall business. Tactical activities are more
52 Weeks of Safety: Week 48

WEEK 48 PROTECTIVE
FOOTWEAR
---------------------QUESTIONS------------------
1. Employers must ensure that employees' footwear
protects them from what hazards?
a) Sole-piercing objects
b) Rolling objects
c) a, b, d are all correct
d) Electrical hazards
2. If you purchased protective footwear in the year
2007, it must comply with what standard?
a) ANSI Z41.1-1967
b) ASTM F496-94
c) ASTM Z87
d) ANSI Z10
12- Month Incentive Idea: Increase Near-miss Reporting for Improved Safety Performance

In this video presentation Carl presents an idea for
you to use in the coming 12 months to increase near-
miss reporting.
Carl does not agree with rewards for not being injured
because it leads workforce to cover-up injuries that
are caused by hazards. Those hazards go unreported
and uncorrected.
Organizations can learn from near-miss reporting that
is done correctly. Providing an incentive for near-miss
reporting can have a positive impact as Carl explains
in this online video.
Answer this Safety Question and Win a Mancomm Book

Look before you leap if you are in the Polar Bear Club.
2007-2008 Hardcopy Issues of Safety Spot News Online

Visit this webpage to find online copies of Carl and
Deb Potters Safety Spot News Hardcopy.
Carl speaking at ASSE Dallas lunch meeting

SPECIAL INVITATION
If you are in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex, you are
invited to hear Carl speak at the Southwest Chapter -
ASSE on Monday, January 12. This is a great
opportunity get energized for the New Year. And if Carl
can be of service to your organization while he's in the
area, please give us a call at 800-259-6209.
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