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Benefits of a Positive Safety Culture to Your Bottom Line

In a study of high-rise construction accidents, the underlying factors were able to be identified.

Studying Construction Accidents

High-rise building construction is one of the riskiest places for a person to work and it’s probably no surprise that it’s a leading place for construction accidents. A team of scientists in Taiwan, known for some of the highest buildings in the world, set out to find out the major causes of accidents in high-rise building construction.

Using an assessment technique called The Construction Safety Equilibrium Model, they looked at both task demand and the capability of the workers.  

Great video from Rachel (Walla) Housman, CSP, CIH at Ally Safety discussing how traditional drug testing fails to prevent accidents in the workplace and dives into how alternative alertness tests, Including the AlertMeter®, are more effective safety and leadership tools in assessing worker’s alertness.

Several Studies Point to Trends Showing Decreases in Mining Safety and Increases in Mining Accidents

A recent article by Bonnie Christian for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation explores the causes for a concerning upward trend in yearly mining fatalities in the Western Australian resources industry since 2012, when the number of fatalities was zero and there’s been an upward trend since 2013.

Young and members of his management team at VForge share how AlertMeter has helped them align their policies and procedures to their core philosophy of respect for their workers and high regard for their safety when they come to work.

In addition to the positive impact of the cultural shift, VForge has also benefited from a significant decrease in Workers’ Comp claims, and an 11% uptick in productivity since implementing AlertMeter. 

Often, efforts toward continuous workplace safety improvement get discarded because of what we prefer to believe about our workforce's fitness for duty, rather than what we actually know about it. The truth is that without an objective way to measure the factors that contribute to improving workplace safety, we can’t determine trend directions and take corrective actions that prevent the factors that reduce productivity and create workplace hazards. We know that fatigue is a leading cause of workplace accidents, yet most companies don’t have active fatigue monitoring and management systems.