Management is directly responsible for workplace safety outcomes — and for the financial costs that follow when safety systems fail. When leaders push to maintain schedules and insist that deadlines must be met, they must also recognize that OSHA standards, ISO 45001 requirements, and industry safety codes place legal and moral accountability squarely on their […]
Safety Management
Saving a business money takes effort!
Unless you’re like the retail business manager who once told me that he was ‘making way too much money to worry about cutting costs, cost management simply aims to achieve the most cost-effective way of delivering your goods or services to a given level of quality. Cost management isn’t about reducing quality or short-changing customers. […]
Certainty Software…Protecting your reputation and assets
Any competent directors will want to comply with the law when managing SHE, but directors are also keen on protecting their reputation and assets of themselves AND their business from the adverse publicity that a serious accident would bring. Directors and managers will want to avoid undue pressure arising from employees, trade unions, and customers […]
Certainty Software is guaranteed to reduce the cost of HSE
Implementing a robust HSE management system carries an upfront cost — but the financial and human cost of managing health, safety, and environment (HSE) poorly is far greater. Every year, OSHA estimates that workplace injuries and illnesses cost U.S. employers over $170 billion in direct and indirect costs, including medical expenses, lost productivity, legal liability, […]
Take the Certainty Software Challenge and Save your Company Thousands of Dollars per Site Every Year!
At Certainty Software, we are proud of one very important thing. Our clients save an enormous amount of time and money using Certainty Software – our audit and inspection management software solution. And that’s why we want to introduce the Certainty Software Challenge! By automating the audit/inspection process with Certainty Software, our clients on average […]
Is there enough checklist culture in the mining sector?
The key purpose of this blog series is to help ‘cross-fertilize’ ideas and opinions from one industry sector to another. This week we’re looking at the mining sector and reflecting on some of the challenges presented there. We found this great article in support of checklists and recommend you read it in full here, – […]
Did checklists help save my life…?
Modern healthcare is an industrial process just like any other. Whether we like it or not, when we go to a hospital for surgery we must submit to a process. Quite probably, dozens of individuals are going to get involved in our care. Some of those people will have direct continuous involvement in our care […]
“I don’t need these stupid checklists… because I know this stuff already.”
You may think that you don’t need to use checklists because you already know what to do or because you’ve done it a hundred times before. But even though you may have done so yourself or you’ve told other people what to do, it’s only human nature to make mistakes or to try and take […]
How ‘Experts’ can be the Biggest Obstacle to Using Checklists
Sure, there are some obstacles to using checklists which we’ve touched on in the preceding blogs. But the far biggest obstacle to their successful implementation is the ‘expert’ who’s offended at the thought of ever needing a checklist. That ‘expert’ can be anyone in the organization. The expert will give any number of reasons checklists are a […]
Checklists don’t work….do they? Why Checklists Work
Here are 10 reasons why implementing checklists work in your business’s operations: 1 – Because everyone already knows what we need to do! You may think that everyone knows what to do because they’ve done it a hundred times before. But even though we’ve told them what to do, people often don’t listen and frequently […]
6 Steps to Creating a Checklist
We’ve talked about Atul Gawande before and his book ‘The Checklist Manifesto’ and, at this early stage in our blog series on checklists, we think it’s worth hammering home some of the points he makes. Boeing, NASA, and other large organizations have entire teams dedicated to creating checklists. Fortunately, you can capture significant improvements using checklists […]
A checklist for checklists? ….why not?
We’ve previously blogged about Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto which is a great help for the medical sector. We suggest you make familiarize yourself with it, but here is a great ‘ a checklist for checklists’ that’ll help you get started in whichever industry you’re in. Just use this as a clear, simple, and general […]
Where to Start with Checklists?
Before we get into the detail of industry-specific checklists and the issues involved in their design and operation we should remind you about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace for their employees. OSHA’s role is to assure the safety and health of America’s workers […]
Do you need help working with checklists?
Do you need help working with checklists? Do you struggle to design the right checklists for your business? – Talk to us and see how we can help, for free*! We can help you find templates to use, ‘sense-check’ the templates you think you’d like to use, or even design new templates from scratch – […]
Do we really put safety first?…. quite possibly not
Do organizations really put safety first? In most workplaces, the honest answer is: not consistently. Safety slogans cover the walls, induction programs repeat the message, and every EHS policy document declares safety the number one priority — yet actual behavior at every level of the organization often tells a different story. The research is clear: […]
