Employee engagement is a fuzzy concept for many manufacturing leaders. Definitions of engagement vary, opinions about its importance differ from one person to the next, and most confusing is how to make it happen on the plant floor and across the organization. Mark Whitten says you’re leaving money on the table if you ignore employee …
For months now, the EHS Today team has been planning the Safety Leadership conference. We chose a location, a hotel, topics, speakers, keynotes… We planned for staff attendance and travel, meals for the Safety Leadership Conference attendees, signage, hotel rooms, a location for the America’s Safest Companies and SLC Night Out celebration… The one thing …
Chances are, if you work at a small- or medium-size facility, you’re a one-person safety department. You know, realistically, you need other supervisors to help drive home the safety message. So why don’t safety managers delegate more? While reading my colleague Lisa McKale’s post, The 4 dumbest excuses for why we don’t delegate more on …
Each year, since 2002, EHS Today has named a list of companies we feel exemplify world-class safety leadership. The application for America’s Safest Companies is 14 pages long and asks fairly detailed information, not the least of which is whether your company has experienced a fatality – employee or contractor – in the past five …
