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FATIGUE MANAGEMENT &
IMPAIRMENT DETECTION
Insurance Business Australia In Partnership with Zurich Insurance Explores Best Practices for Improving Fleet Safety Management Program
Recently, Predictive Safety’s COO, Jeff Sease participated as an expert panelist in a conversation exploring best-practice approaches to improving fleet safety management. The panel was convened by Insurance Business Australia TV in partnership with the global insurer, Zurich.
Unexpected Consequences of the Labor Shortage
Since 2021, we’ve seen a sharp rise in workers quitting their jobs. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that 4 million workers in America quit their jobs in 2021, the highest in the last decade and the pace has continued. Moreover, the exodus is happening in large numbers, and the workers opt for other careers. Some of the most affected industries were those that command skilled, blue-collar workers including the oil and gas, mining, construction, and manufacturing industries.
Bottom-Line Benefits of a Positive Safety Culture
Benefits of a Positive Safety Culture to Your Bottom Line
A positive safety culture promotes sound production and operation compliance that protects all teams and all aspects of the business. From C-suite to managers to workers, a positive safety culture advocates watchful conditions that keep everyone safe.
When a safety culture is lacking, the risk is complacency and corner-cutting rather than conscientious, compliance, and a commitment to contributing to the whole. Workers arrive not ready or fully willing to work but are in position anyway, sitting behind equipment or monitoring operations without being fully present and/or even quantifiably impaired.
Preventing Construction Accidents
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.
Drug Testing vs. Measuring Mental Awareness | AlertMeter® Review by Ally Safety
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.
Proactive Mining Safety Management
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.
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Empower a Safer Workforce
Discover how Predictive Safety can help you create a safer, more productive workforce, even during a historically tight labor market and high demand.
