Employees are the real drivers of safety performance, as they are at the forefront of organizations’ business processes. Due to their influence as the people doing the job and managing everyday risk, competence is key for the growth and profitability of a business. The relevant competency requirements for every business process that employees carry out must be clearly defined. Employers must conduct competency needs assessment of each business process and build an adequate matrix of skills

Are you looking for ways to make money from health and safety? Are you tired of your 9 to 5 job? Are you looking for a new challenge that is more fulfilling and rewarding? Do you want to make the best out of your safety qualifications? In this post, I will be introducing to you safety entrepreneurship, the reason I could easily quit my 9 to 5 job. I will share some of the ways

Organizations encounter problems in every day operations due to the interplay of several factors. These factors span from the immediate causal factor, the underlying causal factors to the root cause. The immediate cause is the agent of causation, the underlying causes are the contributory factors leading up to the problem and the root cause is the cause from which all other causes precede, also known as the most basic cause. During problem solving, conducting root

In this post we talk about high income skills if you want to succeed as a safety professional. Let’s understand KATE first. The basic requirements of a successful health and safety career is “KATE”, that is Knowledge, Ability, Training and Experience embodied in a level 3 safety qualification, experience on the job whether through internship or actual employment, and a good amount of technical know-how from competence-based training. These requirements help safety professionals to gain

In these trying times of COVID-19 Pandemic, employers are making efforts to ensure that sick employees do not come to work. The WHO identifies FEVER as one of the symptoms, which is temperature measured at 100.4 F or 38 C or greater. Checking temperature is permissible but not determinative of COVID-19, since fever can be associated with other sickness, although, it provides a good ground for sending sick workers home. This template is the result of