james roughton

Developing an effective safety culture

One of our favourite article submitters and guru on the subjects of safety culture and job hazard analysis has written his own book on the subject. “Developing An Effective Safety Culture – A Leadership Approach” was written by James Roughton and is currently prescribed as a text by a number of Universities. The book provides [...]

Safety Culture

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Safety Culture – Developing, Writing, and Communicating the Direction! By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield When you plan a vacation, you and your family have this great vision in mind about where you want to go, what you want to see, and what you want to do as well as the types of experiences you want [...]

Safety As a Value

Consultation

Safety As a Value! By James Roughton What the word VALUE mean? If we say that Safety is a Value, what does this mean? The dictionary defines VALUE as a principle, standard or quality considered worthwhile or desirable, a family value. The dictionary defines a priority as a precedence established by order of importance or [...]

Safety Culture – Are Injuries Consequences of Our Daily Actions

Accidents

Safety Culture – Are Injuries Consequences of Our Daily Actions? By James Roughton I am a firm believer that injuries happen for a reason! There are many that will agree with this statement, while others will rationalize that some injuries are just, “Freak accidents.” If you listen to news reporters on your local new stations, [...]

Safety Culture – Six Basic Safety Program Elements

Safety Culture

Safety Culture – Six Basic Safety Program Elements By James Roughton If you run a small business, sometimes it is hard to keep up with all the rules and regulations. However, there are some very basic elements that must be implemented into a management system. One example is Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) Proposed [...]

Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards – Part 2

Articles

Develop a Foundation – Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards – Part 1 Develop a Foundation – Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards – Part 2 By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield In part 1 we discussed why you should define what your safety and health system should look like. Do you just want to be just [...]

Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards – Part 1

Articles

Develop a Foundation – Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards – Part 1 By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield Setting the Stage – Providing the Foundation Here are several questions that are usually asked by safety and health professionals: “What are the skills that I need to have in order to be effective within my organization?,” “What [...]

Closing the Gap Between Safety Management Systems

Safety Systems

Closing the Gap Between Safety Management Systems By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield We were involved in a recent discussion on which was the appropriate or best title for the job assessment method used by safety professionals for decades. From the discussion, the use of “Job Hazard Analysis” (JHA) appears to have been somewhat superseded by [...]

Safety Rules That Apply Only to Employees

Safety Procedures

Rules That Apply Only to Employees [picappgallerysingle id="210059"]Rules That Apply Only to Employees By James Roughton Some workplaces may have rules that apply only to employees who will be in the area for several hours or who will be working with specific equipment. Make sure you know all the rules that employees are expected to [...]

Job Hazard Analysis – An Eight Step Safety Process

Job Hazard Analysis

Job Hazard Analysis – An Eight Step Safety Process By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield The Job Hazard Analysis can be used as the foundation of your safety process, and will help to provide structure, for safety training, safety compliance, hazard and risk controls, inspections/audits, coaching/observations and other safety activities. If a core standard, such [...]

Job Hazard Analysis – The Job Review Process

Workplace Safety

Job Hazard Analysis – The Job Review Process By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield The Job Hazard Analysis Process represents only one aspect in establishing a safe environment. Developing procedures to identify and define the loss potential in a facility or operation is a combination of risk and hazard analysis, behavior consequence analysis, and organizational design [...]

Employees Are in Close Contact With Hazards

Consultation

Employees Are in Close Contact With Hazards By James Roughton As businesses change, running leaner, and more responsibilities are added to individuals, there is greater separation of management from day to day activities. As this occurs, the management team can become short sighted or complacent with regard to the hazards in their facility. So it [...]

Employee Participation in Job Hazard Analysis

Articles

Job Hazard Analysis – How to Develop Effective Employee Participation By James Roughtonand Nathan Crutchfield Many organizations have recognized that employee participation greatly enhances the safety communication and improvement of their safety process and, in particular, the quality of developing an effective Job Hazard Analysis. This success stems from enlightened management understanding that employees have [...]

james roughton

Developing an effective safety culture

Safety Culture

Safety As a Value

Safety Culture – Are Injuries Consequences of Our Daily Actions

Safety Culture – Six Basic Safety Program Elements

Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards – Part 2

Identify Workplace Risk and Hazards – Part 1

Closing the Gap Between Safety Management Systems

Safety Rules That Apply Only to Employees

Job Hazard Analysis – An Eight Step Safety Process

Job Hazard Analysis – The Job Review Process

Employees Are in Close Contact With Hazards

Employee Participation in Job Hazard Analysis

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