In this Blog we outline the nine steps to conducting a do-it-yourself safety perception survey. The blog is a summary of one of our published articles that can be found here: http://compasshealthandsafety.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1608&action=edit. There are nine steps to conducting a do-it-yourself safety perception survey. Most articles ...
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10 Reasons Why a Safety Perception Survey Should be Your First Measurement Option
10-reasons-why-a-Safety-Perception-Survey-should-be-your-first-measurement-option, is our most recent article and it explains why the survey measurement option should be considered before other measurement methods such as auditing. A properly crafted survey can assess the corporate environment for its’ readiness to a embrace and support the introduction of traditional basic safety program elements. In addition, a survey can be used to assess how ...
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In this Newsletter we are following up on our article entitled ‘Cure for Audit Fatigue/Audit Paralysis” which we published in our last newsletter. Links to two new articles are included here; one article is on how you can significantly reduce the costs associated with conducting a system audit – a survey/audit hybrid approach, and the other, is on how to properly conduct ...
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CURE FOR AUDIT FATIGUE/AUDIT PARALYSIS
In our soon to be published article on “Cures for Audit Fatigue/Audit Paralysis” we explore important lingering issues with some health and safety management system audit processes. It is important to note, that ...
Continue Reading →Benefiting from the Hazard Assessment Process
I don’t know how many audits I have conducted over the last twenty years but I know it is in the hundreds. One of the areas that I have found hardest to assess as an auditor is the hazard assessment process. Why is this? Well, there are many reasons, first in order to truly know if all jobs and tasks have been assessed, one has to rely on an accurate company ...
Continue Reading →Once again it has been quite a while since we produced our last newsletter. We apologize for this as we have been busy practicing semi-retirement. We drove south for a few months this winter with our new trailer and liked it so much we will be doing it again this winter – only for longer. With all of the travel it makes it difficult to ...
Continue Reading →It’s been a while since our last newsletter. Janie and I have been very busy auditing,
conducting safety perception surveys, managing health and safety for three small
companies, training and helping clients prepare their programs for a COR audit. All of
these activities have left little time to write.
Few people are aware that employer participants in ...
Continue Reading →It’s been a while since our last newsletter. We have been very busy conducting audits and safety perception surveys leaving little time to get a newsletter together.
Regardless, we are proud to report that the circulation of this Newsletter has exceeded 1,200 recipients.
I’m sure most of you are aware that Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) carried out a search for the safest ...
Continue Reading →It’s been 4 or 5 months since our last Newsletter so this one is long overdue. Like everyone else, time seems to be our enemy. Hopefully everyone has managed to keep warm and sane given what winter has dealt us this year.
Some months ago we read that in the future Alberta Employment and Immigration (AEI) may consider ...
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