Can you find all the words associated with human resources?
Personal hygiene can ???make or break??? a person???s success at their job, and it can cause discomfort and embarrassment that results in a breakdown of communication and productivity. This program has been developed as a tool for employers to be proactive in addressing the subject, as well as an aid to those managers and supervisors that find themselves in the position of needing to react and take action in the even of a complaint.
Personal hygiene can ???make or break??? a person???s success at their job, and it can cause discomfort and embarrassment that results in a breakdown of communication and productivity. This program has been developed as a tool for employers to be proactive in addressing the subject, as well as an aid to those managers and supervisors that find themselves in the position of needing to react and take action in the even of a complaint.
The only thing you can count on in today’s workplace is change. Just when you get accustomed to one way of doing things, a new plan comes along.
A well-run meeting should stick the allotted time, have a clear purpose and plan, and at least one call to action at the end. Read more about running a meeting in this article by Adam Bryant at the New York Times. How can you apply these three principles to your next safety meeting or training?
People or profits? Results or relationships? Safety or Savings? As supervisors we often feel an enormous amount of pressure (spoken or unspoken) to make these types of difficult decisions. We also feel a great deal of conflict as well over the choices we make. Effective leaders focus on both results and relationships.
As “safety people” we spend a good deal of our time consciously or unconsciously trying to persuade others. We try to persuade management to support and fund safety initiatives. We try and persuade supervisors to enforce safety rules. We try and persuade workers to follow those same safety rules. In his article, Powerful Secrets of Persuasion, speaker, trainer, and coach James Hurford, DTM, he goes over 20 ways to get people to take action.
Charging and changing the lead-acid batteries used to power forklifts present four serious, and potentially life-threatening hazards, including corrosive liquids and electrical hazards.
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Today’s workforce is rich in diversity. Working together are people of different ages, cultures, physical abilities, education, sexual orientation, language and religious beliefs. Each of us is unique, and our different strengths and perspectives contribute to the strength of our teams.
Nearly everyone has heard sayings such as ?Many hands make light work? or ?None of us is as smart as all of us.?
These sayings refer to teamwork. Many people associate teamwork with sales teams or sports teams, but teamwork is also a vital element in keeping you and your co-workers safe and healthy on the job.
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