Safety Culture

An effective safety strategy is critical to maintaining a safe working environment, especially in high-risk maritime industries. The only way to connect with your team is by ensuring they are...

In this Longshore Insider Podcast, AEU's Mike Jernigan and Matt Hockman speak with QSL America's Safety and Compliance Manager, Rudy Becerra, about creating a safety-first culture through leadership...

Effective safety meetings are critical to a successful safety strategy. Meetings are crucial in maintaining a safe working environment, especially in high-risk industries like shipbuilding....

The statistics are staggering. Slips, trips, and falls (STFs) are the second most common form of injuries across all types of industries. These injuries account for workers missing an average of 38...

Safety management systems have evolved with time and great advancements have been made in injury prevention efforts. That said, employees still take short cuts and routinely engage in at-risk...

In a previous blog about improving upper management commitment to a safety program, we discussed the importance of employees seeing company owners and upper management taking an interest in their...

Successful safety managers require regulatory knowledge, support from all levels of the company, and numerous hard and soft skills. A safety manager must get buy-in for ideas and earn respect from...

Do your supervisors play a key role in the foundation and success of your company’s safety program? Too often, companies rely strictly on their safety staff to ensure safety protocol is maintained....

Dockworking has long had one of the highest rates of lost workdays of anyindustry. Over the past 30 years, those who load and unload cargo have been seriously injured nearly three times as often as...

At the start of every new year, it’s common to take a fresh look at the current way of doing things and consider a new approach. This year, consider reviewing the safety culture at your company and...

Presenters: Shawn M. Galloway, President, ProAct Safety Original recording date: October 27, 2020 Duration: 46:58 minutes Description: As many health and safety professionals will attest, just...

Presenters: Bobby Anderson, Loss Control Manager, AEU Christian Murillo, Loss Control Manager, AEU Ray Ruiz, Loss Control Manager, AEU Original recording date: July 24, 2020 Duration: 17:05 minutes

I recently read an article about a field researcher doing studies about tribal healers. This researcher tried to accelerate his learning process but his teacher, one of the tribal healers, had a...

Have you ever been walking down the street looking at your mobile phone -- perhaps reading emails or scrolling social media -- and then suddenly looked around and wondered how you got to where you...

Technological advancements have had a dramatic impact on our everyday lives and the pace of technology-driven change is accelerating. While a ship repair facility or marine cargo handling operation...

The workplace culture within your company can have an enormous impact on the success and safety performance of your business. Influencing a workplace culture positively requires members of...

Our words and voices have a power that many of us don’t use. Speaking up is one of the first steps to strengthening a workplace safety program and changing a safety culture. So often employees sit...

Culture. It’s a word used frequently in nearly every workplace. A company’s core beliefs and values are manifested through actions which ultimately form the company’s “culture”. In maritime...

With the start of every new year, it’s common to take a fresh look at the current way of doing things and consider a new approach. This year, consider reviewing the safety culture at your company...