In his article “Total Performance Safety” from the latest issue of the Mining Practice Specialty’s publication Inside Global Mining, Randy DeVaul maintains that safety programs that begin with great intentions often turn into a paper-tracking nightmare or the documentation becomes the ends to the means.
To ensure that a product or service is delivered on time and that employees do their assigned tasks in a safe and productive manner, DeVaul suggests using performance safety, which can keep production numbers up and injury numbers and costs down.
Performance safety is an ongoing review of processes, procedures and individual/team practices through workplace examinations, observation and task analysis. Click here to learn how you can integrate performance safety into your production processes.
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