In this interview, we’re catching up with our old friend Joe Estey to learn about what he calls a “pre-task pre-mortem.”

A pre-task pre-mortem is a discussion to talk about (1) the desired end-state of the task, (2) the process for completing the task, (3) the resources used for the task, (4) where failure is most likely to occur during the task, and (4) mitigations and controls necessary based no the pre-mortem discussion.

We’ve typed up the entire transcript of this discussion with Joe for you below, but know that there’s also a video of the discussion at the bottom of this article if you’d prefer to watch and listen instead of read.

Now, let’s learn more about pre-mortems for safety and learning.

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One important aspect of getting online safety training for your workplace is vetting the online safety training provider. You’ll want to know if they’re capable of making a good product but also if they provide excellent customer service.

In this article, we give some tips for things to look for in your online safety training provider.

If you want to learn even more about evaluating online safety training, we’ve included a lot of additional links for you at the bottom of this article, and don’t forget to download our free 90-page Online Safety Training Buyer’s Guide Checklist.

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As happens every year, the OSHA’s Top Ten Citations list was announced at the NSC Safety Congress and Expo.

We’ve got the 2018 list and data for you below. Check it out to see what OSHA inspectors have been issuing citations for this past year.

When OSHA releases their extended data on these standard citations, which typically happens in December or January, we’ll get you that information as well.

And, if you want to see how these citations have changed or stayed the same in recent years, check out our historical record of OSHA’s Top Ten Citations.

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In this article, we’re going to list a number of important features to consider while you’re looking for a learning management system (LMS) to use for managing and administering online safety training at your workplace.

If you’re not sure what an LMS is, it’s an online software application you can use to assign, deliver, import, create, track, and report on online training, and even types of training that don’t occur online such as field-based and instructor-led classroom training. To learn more about LMSs in general, check out our What Is an LMS? article.

Let’s jump into this article now. If you want to learn even more after you’ve finished this article, we’ve included a lot of additional links for you at the bottom, and don’t forget to download our free 90-page Online Safety Training Buyer’s Guide Checklist.

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Hello and welcome, friend! In this article, we’re going to give you an introduction to how safety departments, safety managers, and/or safety professionals can contribute to the creation of a learning organization at work.

In doing so, we’ll introduce you to or touch on learning organization theory, new safety/safety differently/safety 2/human and organization performance (HOP), risk management, systems thinking and safety management systems, lean manufacturing, and more.

Let’s get started.

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This year’s National Safety Council Congress & Expo will be held October 20-26 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX, and we’re excited to say that we’ll be there are are looking forward to meeting you if you’ll be there too.

Come on by our booth to see our award-winning safety training solutions, including:

• 3D-animated online safety training courses
• Learning management system (LMS) for safety training administration
• Incident management system (IMS) for workplace incident reporting/tracking/corrective actions
• Mobile apps for mobile training and mobile incident reporting
• and a whole lot more 🙂

As an added bonus, some of our new partners from RedVector will be there with us and if you leave your business card at our booth, you can get one free pay-per-view version of any of our 3D-animated workforce training courses.

Here’s a short example of the type of online safety training we’ll be demonstrating:

Come meet us and say hi and let’s get to know one another. We’d love to find out how we can help you make your workplace safer, healthier, and more efficient.

Before you go, feel free to download our free ONLINE SAFETY TRAINING BUYER’S GUIDE CHECKLIST, too.

Online Safety Training Buyer’s Guide Checklist

Learn how to evaluate different online safety training solutions to find one that best fits your company’s needs with our FREE informative guide and checklist.

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If you’re in charge of safety at a small business, and you feel a bit overwhelmed by all of the OSHA compliance regulations, you’re going to be excited to know about OSHA’s Small Business Handbook. It’s just what you’re looking for.

In this article, we’ll tell you about OSHA’s Small Business Handbook, tell you how it can help you, and most importantly, tell you where to get it.

If you find this article helpful, you may also want to check the other articles in our OSHA Basics series, which includes a number of articles to help with 101-level OSHA information. We’ve included a series of links to the other OSHA Basics articles at the bottom of this article.

For now, though, let’s take a closer look at the Small Business Handbook.

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If you’re new to Safety, EHS, or OSHA, you might be a fan of our OSHA Basics series of articles, which explains a number of basic OSHA concepts, ideas, programs, regulations, etc. We’ve got a full list of the articles in this series at the bottom of this article.

And, as you may have guessed, THIS is another article in our OSHA Basics series. In this one, we’re going to give you a little bit of historical information about what’s commonly known as “OSHA’s Top Ten,” which is an annual list of the 10 standard violations that OSHA wrote the most citations for in the previous year (a fiscal year, to be exact, not a calendar year).

Before you read on, there are a few things to know or that we should you remind you of. The first is that you should remember that this list changes every year. And the second is that while the list changes every year, most of the items appear on the list year after year after year.

Read on to get a bit of a historic introduction to OSHA’s Top Ten lists from recent years.

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