The Ghana Safety Profit Conference 2022 is the first event of its kind, bringing together EHS professionals from both Government and Industry. This free of charge event encouraged networking, learning and discussion. It was so successful that we aim to host it annually. Working together, we can improve workplace safety.
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The IIRSM Risk Excellence awards 2022 were hosted by co-presidents Ruth Denyer and Callum Irvine. The final award, the Presidents commendation, is hotly contested. IIRSM members are nominated for their achievements over the past year. It must be hugely difficult to choose just one winner!
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Thank you, IOSH West Africa, for inviting us to talk about ‘how digitisation can help EHS managers’. There was a lot of interest in this topic, as you can see from the 2 recordings below. The first shows just the presentation (45 mins). The second includes questions…and is 1h22 mins long showing how many people wanted to find out more about this hot top
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Congratulations, Edward! Edward is a true leader. Whilst he already has an impressive list of qualifications and experience, he continues to push forwards, recently obtaining the Nebosh Diploma and starting a Masters in Business Law and Sustainability at Aberdeen University. He shares this knowledge generously though groups such as
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There is a good selection of browsers to choose from. We all have our favourites alongside those we try to avoid at all costs. At Proactively we test widely, so it is interesting to know which our customers use. Market share in 2021 looks like - Source - Stat counter, Global Stats
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Incident management is one of the key tasks of an EHS Manager. But is this something that you worry about? Does it keep you awake at night? The consequences of getting it wrong can be very severe….and are usually quite visible ending up with a fine or a court case.
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Companies set 2 types of EHS performance indicator. A good EHS system will have a combination of both - Lagging indicators measure the frequency of events that have already occurred, such as the number of injuries. They can tell you about a failure of an area of your system or the
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Edward Debrah is Proactively’s partner in West Africa. Edward has been using Proactively for a few years and is a firm believer in the benefits it can bring to organisations. He sees digitisation as the future, able to play a big role in improving H&S standards.
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Slips, trips and falls are one of the biggest causes of workplace accidents. Often they are seen as something that just happens, and blamed on human error. However, slips, trips, falls expert, Rob Shaw, views them differently.
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The world around us is transforming at a rapid pace. In the midst of this transformation, at times, we might find ourselves facing these changes hands on. In such a situation it is only natural to want to act as a firefighter — forced to react to the flames of change
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Timothey is trying out the Proactively Mobile reporting system. Please join use as we look at the different features of the system
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Alison Hinde, CEO from Proactively, will be speaking at the Risk!n conference next week. With the world of OHS being disrupted and change influencing all our actions, what can we do to address these challenges? Find out by signing up for
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Red laces is running a campaign to collect thoughts. Here is the entry from Alison Hinde, CEO of Proactively
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Break the silos to better manage risks - Inspiration from Risk-!n Last week Basel hosted the Risk-!n conference. For me, this was a fascinating peek into the world of Enterprise Risk Management, the parallels and differences to Operational Risk Management where I spend my time. It gave an opportunity to learn from
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Tell people that you will solve their problems, give them an ability to tell you about them, and you may open the flood gates. These ‘hazards’ or ‘non conformances’ can come from a wide range of sources
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An ‘effective safety culture’ is the holy grail of safety and something that we are all trying to reach. Just like the movies, the path is long, hard and filled with trials to test you and divert you. One route map that shows the way is provided by the Bradley Curve (Dupont). This leads companies
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I haven’t spoken to Peter for quite some time, but he is one of those people that it doesn’t seem to matter. He is warm and friendly, and it the time disappears. Peter is retired now, but previously had a long and successful career in health, safety and environment in a large multinational. He came from an era before the ISO standards revolution
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Stress affects everyone. Even if not you personally, then someone close to you. 74% of adults in the UK said they felt so stressed at some point in 2018 that they became unable to cope. 15.4 million working days were lost that year as a result of it. Over half
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Why Proactively loves the red squirrel - I have been searching for a way to make H&S ‘engaging’. What I am really looking for is the way to present the subject in a positive, interesting and memorable way that draws people in, wanting to find out more.
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Looking at your incident statistics, it is clear where the big issues lie. I am guessing that the biggest number is for slips, trips and falls (STF).
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Making the safe way the simple way What is the best way to improve environmental health and safety in your organization? According to James Pomeroy—Group Director of Health, Safety, Environment and Safety at Lloyd’s Register—the solution may lie in simplification. (STF).
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