Implementing asset management principles enables PCBUs (Persons Conducting a Business or Undertaking) to quickly realize new value from existing assets. But those same principles also yield unexpected benefits for Safety programs, as well. Not sure what they are, or how to accrue them?
Topics: Safety Management, Safety Newsletter
Costs balloon in a heavily regulated space
Topics: Utilities, Safety Management, Safety Newsletter
When surveyed, senior facilities managers admit that their respective organizations are unprepared to deal with the security risk to the built environment. That is even as risk, including threats like workplace violence, environmental incidents, and active shooter incidents, continues to grow.
Topics: Safety Management, Safety Newsletter, Integrated Safety and Security
Safety teams have long understood employee health and safety to lie at the intersection of health protection and promotion. In turn, those teams have developed sophisticated programs to enhance worker wellbeing and prevent injury and illness.
Topics: Work Health Safety, Safety Management, Safety Newsletter
Physical security challenges are only getting worse
Topics: Safety Management
Natural disasters are growing in kind, cost, and intensity. We see evidence of it all the time. Having recently lived in California, I experienced back-to-back cataclysmic wildfire seasons – last year’s North California season left air in the Bay Area so smoke-laden that it ranked among the dirtiest in the world. And now, my home state of New South Wales faces the same scenario, a longer, more intense bush firefighting season, already on track to be the worst in decades.
Topics: Alerts, Public Safety, Community & Humanitarian, Noggin Crisis, Safety Management
The modern workforce is changing and changing fast. Nowadays, most firms – from industry incumbents to plucky startups – employ third-party contractors to perform essential business tasks.
Topics: Work Health Safety, Safety Management, Safety Newsletter
It’s always been common for practitioners to treat safety and security as different properties – not just entities requiring different systems but distinct vocabularies and frameworks, as well. But increasingly the question is asked, how tenable is continuing to silo safety and security management? The answer: not tenable at all.
Topics: Security Management, Safety Management, Integrated Safety and Security
What integrated safety and security management capabilities do you need?
Topics: Security Management, Safety Management, Integrated Safety and Security
The story is well known. Hazardous substances were long bedrocks of the industrialized, global economy. But subsequent advances in environmental and health science caused a reevaluation of the use of hazardous waste in industry. In turn, governments installed thoroughgoing regulatory regimes to safeguard the health of workers, especially in heavy industry.
Topics: Work Health Safety, Safety Management, Safety Newsletter
