Summary: This construction safety webinar explores practical ways to reduce falls, improve worker engagement, and strengthen safety performance across active jobsites. 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 […]
What is ESG and Why it’s Important
Summary: ESG measures how a company manages its environmental impact, social responsibilities, and governance practices across the business and its supply chain. What is environment, social, governance in practice? It is a framework for identifying risk, improving accountability, and meeting rising expectations from regulators, investors, customers, and suppliers. Companies that operationalize ESG strengthen compliance, trust, […]
Gemba Walk: A Modern, Mobile Playbook for Quality & Lean Leaders
Summary: The Gemba walk is a foundational continuous improvement practice where managers observe work processes firsthand on the shop floor rather than relying solely on reports and data. For QA Managers and Quality Engineers, Gemba walks verify that actual practices align with documented QMS procedures required under ISO 9001, helping identify non-conformances, process variation, and […]
Safeguard Management: Preventive & Mitigative Safety Tool
Summary: A safeguard is any control, barrier, device, or procedure designed to prevent a hazardous event or reduce its consequences if it occurs. In practical safety management, safeguards work best as layered protections that interrupt failure pathways before they reach people, equipment, or the environment. For EHS leaders, defining and maintaining effective safeguards is central […]
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): What It Is and Why It Matters for Safety on Your Site
Summary: Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, is the last line of defense that reduces worker exposure to hazards when engineering and administrative controls cannot eliminate the risk. For construction safety leaders, an effective PPE program depends on hazard assessment, correct equipment selection, training, and enforcement, because PPE only improves workplace safety when workers have the […]
Essential Ingredient in Food Safety: Making the Most of GMP
Summary: Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) form the regulatory foundation of food safety quality management, governing facilities maintenance, equipment design, sanitation controls, and record keeping under FDA oversight. For QA Managers and Quality Engineers in food production, good manufacturing practices compliance is a prerequisite for meeting broader quality frameworks including ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, and HACCP […]
Certainty Version 4.1 Ready for Release!
We are now planning the release of version 4.1 of Certainty Software which is scheduled for a phased rollout beginning November 20th. This release sees the addition of the Checklist Workflow tool to the system and brings an improvement to the user interface of the recently added Action Workflow tool. There are also a few […]
DNV Selects Certainty as Their Global Supply Chain Management (SCM) Software Solution
Summary: A scalable supply chain management solution gives global organizations one secure system to standardize supplier oversight, assurance workflows, and compliance data across countries and business units. For supply chain leaders, the main advantage of a flexible SCM platform is operational control: it supports growth, improves consistency, and makes audits, supplier reviews, and corrective actions […]
The Pros and Cons of Behavior Based Safety
Summary: Behavior-Based Safety is a proactive safety method that uses observation and feedback to reduce the unsafe behaviors linked to workplace incidents. Its value is highest when BBS complements engineering controls, procedures, and leadership accountability rather than replacing them. For EHS managers, the key takeaway is that behavior-based safety can improve incident prevention and safety […]
The 5 Biggest Challenges When Building a Safety Observation Report (Solved)
Summary: A safety observation report is a structured record of unsafe conditions, unsafe behaviors, or near misses that allows organizations to start corrective action before an injury occurs. For EHS managers, the value of a safety observation report lies in making frontline risk visible, measurable, and actionable at scale, which strengthens OSHA compliance, supports ISO […]
