Newsletters

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 ...

COMPASS NEWSLETTER – WINTER JANUARY 2019

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 ...

COMPASS NEWSLETTER WINTER 2017/18

This Newsletter contains the following information:

• Some thoughts on Cures for Audit Fatigue/Audit Paralysis
• Publishers pick up our Benefiting from the Hazard Assessment Process article
• Summary of our meeting with the Alberta Labour Deputy Minister and the Director of Partnership’s
• Legislated Safety Committees

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 ...

COMPASS NEWSLETTER SPRING 2017

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 ...

COMPASS NEWSLETTER FALL 2016

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 find ...

COMPASS NEWSLETTER Winter 2014

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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.

PIR Surveys

Few people are aware that employer participants in ...

COMPASS NEWSLETTER Winter 2012

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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.

COS Safest Employers

I’m sure most of you are aware that Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) carried out a search for the safest ...

COMPASS NEWSLETTER Winter 2011

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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.

Another Level of COR

Some months ago we read that in the future Alberta Employment and Immigration (AEI) may consider ...