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A Renaissance in Safety and Health Prevention: What you should know about Human and Organizational Performance (HOP)
Most business leaders want to operate high-performance workplaces that ensure effective worker protection. The problem often is that they don’t know how to get there. And when they ask safety and health professionals for guidance, we often don’t know what to tell them to do.
HOP is critical to creating a learning organization that has the intellect, capacity, and courage to identify and rectify systems issues within the organization. Simply put, efforts to enhance serious injury prevention will not succeed without it.
The Radium Girls — What Has Really Changed?
Every industrial hygienist (IH) knows this story. In the early 1920s, young women working at several U.S. Radium Corp. (USRC) plants across the U.S. and Canada painting glow-in-the-dark radium clock dials were becoming sick, some with grisly symptoms such as disintegrating jaws, horrible pain in their bones, and death from hemorrhages. Many developed massive sarcomas that riddled their bodies.
HOP Summit Advanced Conference
HOP Summit Advanced Conference SHARE & DISCUSS DISCUSS TWEET SHARE EMAIL FEATURED SPEAKERS: ERIK HOLLNAGEL Professor at the University of Southern Denmark & Senior Professor at Jönköping Academy, Sweden TODD CONKLIN Human & Organizational Performance Consultant TONY MUSCHARA Muschara Error Management Consulting, LLC BOB EDWARDS The HOP Coach PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVEHOP Summit Fundamentals Conference 2018
HOP Summit Fundamentals Conference SHARE & DISCUSS DISCUSS TWEET SHARE EMAIL FEATURED SPEAKERS: ERIK HOLLNAGEL PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK & SENIOR PROFESSOR AT JONKOPING ACADEMY, SWEDEN TODD CONKLIN HUMAN & ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT TONY MUSCHARA MUSCHARA ERROR MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, LLC ROB FISHER FISHER IT, INC. BOB EDWARDS THE HOP COACH MARC YESTONOSHA Electronic Injury & Illness Data Submission Deadline Extended
OSHA has extended the date by which employers must electronically report injury and illness data through the Injury Tracking Application (ITA) to December 15, 2017. It is important to note that the deadline to edit submitted data remains unchanged at December 31, 2017.
Getting Serious About Preventing Fatalities Injuries: Part VI: Best Practices & Conclusions
Forward-looking companies ORCHSE has worked with have implemented some of these practices. International Paper’s “It’s About LIFE,” or Life-changing Injury and Fatality Elimination, program has helped the company identify and focus on critical tasks.
Getting Serious About Preventing Fatalities & Injuries: Part V: Severity/Control Risk Matrix
ORCHSE integrates the degree of control and human and organizational performance factors into its risk assessment approach by developing a Severity/ Control Risk Matrix.
Getting Serious About Preventing Fatalities & Injuries: Part IV: ORC HSE‘s New Risk-Based Approach
ORCHSE proposes a six-step solution to achieve a fatality and serious incident-free workplace. It is a new risk model that creates a separate track for addressing serious hazards.
Getting Serious About Preventing Fatalities Injuries: Part III: Human Error Causes & Consequences
Research conducted on human error, its causes, and consequences helps to elucidate this risk relationship. Human error is a symptom of trouble deeper inside a system, according to author Sydney Dekker. To explain failure, we must understand how workers’ assessments and actions made sense at the time given the circumstances that surrounded them. Workers themselves do not usually cause serious incidents.