Research Reports

The profound failure in FEMA’s mishandling of Hurricane Katrina is a lesson for all safety professionals.

After all, safety programs are built, first and foremost, on the need to meet safety and health regulations. But if a compliance mindset is allowed to act as the primary driver of worker safety and health, a safety executive needs to expect that it will lead to a gradual degradation in performance — one that is likely to go unnoticed until some critical failure brings it sharply into focus, as with FEMA.

Rather than blindly advocating the latest silver bullet (while badmouthing the trends of past years), true safety leaders are recognizing that simultaneously promoting safety on many fronts is the very best way to achieve excellence in safety and health.

This best-practices guide is intended to help safety professionals meet this critical goal of continuous improvement by showing how to make fundamental improvements to the safety process at all organizational levels.

It’s divided into 10 easy-to-read and -access chapters that make it the perfect reference guide for your office. In it, you’ll find compelling articles based on thorough research, data from exclusive IOMA surveys and others, attendance at national conferences, discussions with prominent safety professionals and consultants, the review of management texts, and much, much more.

You’d spend hundreds of hours in exhausting internet searches to come up with just a small fraction of this report’s content. For example, you’ll find:

• The changing concept of risk and how upper management now perceives it
• 9 factors that determine the superior safety culture: organizational factors, team factors, safety performance-specific factors and more
• Overcoming trust issues in safety: How to drill down into the organization to guarantee worker buy-in
• How to target the executives in your organization who will best support and help you show value from your safety initiatives
• Juggling your job responsibilities when they include fire prevention, industrial hygiene, disaster preparedness, and workplace security, among others
• Beyond BBS: New ideas for changing your company’s safety culture to be people-based, rather than focusing strictly on behaviors
• Case studies on using performance measurement to drive safety improvement, including studies of Exxon, Janssen Pharmaceutical, and ITT
• And much more

The report includes charts, graphs, guidelines, checklists, a model employee survey, an injury reduction ratings system, performance measurements data, and much more.

It is written by Garrett Seivold, editor of IOMA’s Security Director’s Report newsletter, and author of numerous books and reports on safety and security issues.

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