What attributes should a top safety leader possess in order to promote and maintain a positive safety culture? Panelists at the Pittsburgh Environmental Health & Safety Conference (EH&S) shared their insights. Every company wants to be safe. Having policies and procedures are not enough….
Trucking incidents and how to resolve them are sometimes obvious, yet they can be the most difficult to see. Clarity to obvious answers is a struggle in every day life, such as the time I spent hours working in the Baltimore zoo doing student research…
Two Ways to Avoid OSHA Recordables The paper chase can feel counterproductive to your safety goals. Why Recording Is Important Sadly, sometimes companies are intentionally neglectful and find it easier to pay the fine than to deal with paperwork and bureaucracy. Most of the time,…
How to Avoid Gender Discrimination & Employee Turnover A little girl asking Hilary Clinton if she will be paid the same as a male president, and pay discrimination being investigated for the first time in professional sports brings more awareness and consequently will be the…
In these EEOC cases: a supervisor created a toxic workplace environment, a company ignored an easily identifiable risk factor, and officials altered sample data. Effective compliance programs are not just responsible for policies and procedures as they were a decade ago. Modern compliance managers and…
One challenge of compliance is when you are a thriving or growing business and the proliferation of documents and records become unwieldy. Accomplishing regulatory compliance consistency is not easy when your company departments think like individual fiefdoms. Many companies systems support this culture by relying…
When a customer moved 700 of their warehouse employees to a new, modernized, larger location they called us for help with the compliance paperwork process. The compliance paperwork moving experience provides great tips for any company who needs to maintain employee related compliance during a…
There has never been a time when there has been more assembly of regulatory compliance and laws, both domestically and internationally. It is across every industry. It is across every internal function. Corporate compliance is no longer just advice and counsel. In our litigious society,…
You tried to implement the new software safely, but to no avail there was misattribution of data and missing data abound. You say to yourself, “they were trained, what else are we supposed to do?” It is human to make mistakes, and we have…
There has been significant press about walmart vs. Mr. Roper. The Walmart truck driver in New Jersey struck the vehicle carrying professional comedian Tracy Morgan. The crash injured Tracy and killed comedian James McNair. Now imagine if you were a jury hearing this case and…