Facility Management

The Eight Ps of Safety

By Gary W. Helmer, MAS, MBA, CHCM, CPEA, CSHO · December 2007

The leader of any organization is the safety officer, the head of the organization. Managers and supervisors are safety officers for their respective units and are directly responsible for protecting the resources entrusted to them. Safety must be the core value. However, the predicament is how to effect a value system among individuals—each having his or her own that may already be set in stone. We must realize that not all of our beliefs are the same beliefs others hold. Each of us sees the world differently, and we cannot expect to believe that all will respond the same.

State Social Services May Screen Detainees in Workplace Raids

November 19, 2007

DHS issued new guidelines after months of discussions prompted by 362 arrests in New Bedford, Mass., last March.

Twenty Ways to Make Your Office More Secure This Season

November 16, 2007

Report Helps in Placing Buildings' CO Detectors

November 6, 2007

It's meant to fill a knowledge gap, identified as the NFPA 720 standard was expanded this year, about how carbon monoxide moves inside buildings.

DHS Forces 1 Million-plus Port Workers to Enroll in Access-Clearance Program

November 2, 2007

The program's goal is to ensure that any individual who has unescorted access to secure areas of port facilities and vessels has received a thorough background check and is not a security threat.

How Do You Know Your Workers Are Qualified?

By Kenneth Cybart · November 2007

OSHA has long required employers to evaluate the workplace for electrical hazards. Most companies are familiar with possible shock hazards and know that OSHA requires all qualified workers be properly trained to work on or near electrical equipment. However, many safety managers are unaware that OSHA also requires so-called unqualified personnel to be trained to recognize and avoid electrical hazards.

Leaders Stay On Their Feet (and Help Others to, As Well)

By Robert Pater · November 2007

Catalytic Leaders work to perceive what's really going on, rather than stumbling, eyes obscured by outdated information or by their own or others' biases. They don't persist with diminishing return strategies or ignore fixes that may be "different."

U.S. House Passes WARN Act Reforms

October 31, 2007

Ninety days of notice would be required, not 60, whenever 50 or more employees (including part-timers) at a single job site are laid off.

Putting Employee Safety First

By Paul Tyree · October 2007

Safety directors at oil refineries today are required to keep up to date with an ever-increasing list of regulations from a number of sources. State and federal regulations govern everything from the maintenance of equipment to training of operators, and new regulations are proposed continuously.

Workplace Walkabout

By Karen Hamel · October 2007

To help ensure that hazardous chemicals are used and handled safety in the workplace, OSHA created the Hazard Communication (HazCom) standard, 29 CFR 1910.1200, in 1994. The standard requires employers to create a program to properly handle hazardous chemicals in their workplaces.

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