Fire Prevention Month
Fire Prevention Week just ended but many safety and health professionals pay extra attention to fire prevention for the whole month of October. Here is a limited time offer to get a free download of Five for Fire - a collection of activities for Fire Prevention Month.
Flash Roles and Safety Expertise
"Getting People to think Your Idea is Their Idea" is something that many safety people need to do every day in order to be successful in their jobs. I love to combine ideas from other fields and apply them to safety and this book has some good advice for pitching ideas to the people we work with either occasionally or every day.
Slide Backgrounds from Your IPhone
Need images for your safety training presentations? You can get all that you need with just your IPhone. Check out these examples.
It's Labor Day!
In the United States, it's Labor Day, the day when we recognize and celebrate all workers for all that they have done for our country.
- As a Mom of 3 children, the word labor always brings up thoughts of childbirth so in an attempt to connect these two types of labors, I am sharing a paper I wrote awhile back that touches on work/labor and pregnant women (soon to be in labor) in the workplace. While we think about all workers today and the impact that safety professionals have on keeping them safe, let's make sure we don't forget about workers who are also mothers-to-be.
GASP! Learning with Mnemonics
Mnemonics work because they help us provide meaning and structure to seemingly unrelated words. They help us to organize information in a way that specifically helps us to remember.
Making Safety Training Stick
Check out this article on Making Safety Training Stick in the most recent issue of Workers Comp Magazine.