Incident reporting is the systematic process of documenting workplace accidents, injuries, near misses, and unsafe conditions — and communicating them to management to drive corrective action and improve safety management programs. No workplace is perfectly safe. Despite best efforts, incidents happen — machines experience sudden failures, environmental conditions shift unexpectedly, and workers can unintentionally expose […]
Safety Management
Food Safety Handling: Taking a Bite Out of Operational Risk
It’s one thing for food to taste bad, it’s another for it to make you feel bad. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), however, 47.8 million Americans fall ill with foodborne illnesses each year — of those, over 125,000 are hospitalized, and more than 3,000 die. Put simply, food […]
5 Tips to Improve Safety Observations and Reduce Workplace Risk
A safety observation is a structured process in which designated personnel watch employees performing job tasks to identify both safe behaviors and unsafe acts, enabling organizations to reduce risk exposure, close compliance gaps, and drive continuous improvement. According to the National Safety Council, employers lose nearly $167 billion annually to workplace injuries — underscoring the […]
Toolbox Talks: A Great Tool to Improve Job Site Safety
What is a Toolbox Talk? A toolbox talk is a short, informal safety meeting held on the job site before the start of a shift, bringing together all workers — from general employees to supervisors and management — to discuss specific hazards, reinforce safe work practices, and maintain a proactive safety culture. Typically lasting just […]
Certainty Software Webinar: Improving Safety in the Construction Industry
Construction remains one of the highest-risk industries in North America, accounting for nearly 20% of all worker fatalities in the United States according to OSHA — with falls, struck-by incidents, electrocutions, and caught-in/between hazards (the “Fatal Four”) responsible for the majority of preventable deaths. Building a safety program that genuinely reduces these numbers requires more […]
Safeguard Management: Preventive & Mitigative Safety Tool
What is a Safeguard? A safeguard is any engineered control, administrative procedure, protective device, or barrier specifically designed to prevent a hazardous initiating event from escalating into a loss event — or, where prevention has failed, to reduce the severity of the resulting consequences. In workplace safety management, safeguards are the active, proactive layer of […]
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): What It Is and Why It Matters for Safety on Your Site
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is equipment worn by workers to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses — including hard hats, safety glasses, respirators, steel-toed boots, gloves, and high-visibility clothing. Under OSHA’s PPE standards (29 CFR 1910 Subpart I and 29 CFR 1926 Subpart E), employers are required to assess workplace […]
Essential Ingredient in Food Safety: Making the Most of GMP
Informed by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), manufacturers are required to implement processes that actively reduce the risk of foodborne illness, both from known pathogens and unknown agents. These processes are critical to track the type and nature of these illnesses and mitigate their impact — according to the CDC, 48 million Americans fall ill […]
The Pros and Cons of Behavior Based Safety
Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) is one of the most discussed — and debated — approaches in modern workplace safety management. Unlike traditional safety programs that focus primarily on engineering controls and regulatory compliance, BBS targets the human behavioral factors that research consistently identifies as contributing to the majority of workplace incidents. For EHS managers, safety directors, […]
The 5 Biggest Challenges When Building a Safety Observation Report (Solved)
A safety observation report is a structured document — physical or digital — used by safety officers and EHS managers to identify unsafe conditions and behaviors, record near-miss events, and initiate corrective action before workers are injured. Effective safety observation reporting is a foundational requirement of OSHA’s injury and illness prevention framework and a core […]
How Certainty helped an award-winning grocer’s Covid-19 response
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced grocery retailers to rapidly scale their health and safety inspection programs, the difference between organizations with centralized, data-driven compliance systems and those relying on paper-based processes became impossible to ignore. Longo’s Brothers Fruit Market (“Longo’s”) — a family-owned Canadian grocer that has been serving communities in the Greater Toronto Area […]
St John’s Packaging Choose Certainty for Safety Inspections
Certainty Software for safety management Audits St. Johns Packaging is an international manufacturer of flexible plastic packaging based in Canada. They play a vital role in food and medical supply chain from manufacturing facilities across the world. With over 150 employees, SJ Packaging helps customers pack, protect, preserve, and sell their products. The films, bags, […]
What Impact Will Technology Have on your BBS Program?
Technology is fundamentally reshaping how organizations design, implement, and sustain Behavior Based Safety (BBS) programs. Where paper-based observation cards once created data silos, transcription errors, and delayed insights, digital safety platforms now deliver real-time behavioral data that EHS managers can act on immediately. In this blog series, we explore the specific impact technology has on […]
Where do BBS Programs Typically Fail?
Behavior Based Safety (BBS) programs fail more often than they should — not because the underlying principles are flawed, but because of predictable, preventable organizational failures. In this blog series, we explore the most common reasons BBS programs break down, drawing on insights from industry professionals Joseph Braun, EHS Manager at Ferrara Candy Company; John […]
Why Goodman Telecom Services Choose Certainty for Safety Inspections
Goodman Telecom Services (GTS) is a US-based technology service company that designs, builds, permits, engineers, and optimizes state-of-the-art wireless networks and provides cell site maintenance solutions for both wireless and wireline technologies. With a workforce of over 400 telecom professionals and W-2 technicians, Goodman Telecom provides services to network operators, OEMs ,and enterprise clients and […]
