Tag Archives: environmental health safety

EHS Skills 101: The Science of Employee Involvement-Why Does it Work?

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Chet Brandon

It has become a basic tenet of Safety Professionals that employee involvement is critical to program success.  The safety visionary Frank Bird was a very early proponent of employee involvement as a key to ownership of the safety process.  He … Continue reading →

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Is EHS Verging on Disruption?

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Chet Brandon

If you’re in EHS Cop mode your job is about to be disrupted!  A convergence of technologies is occurring that will have a profound impact on the future of our workplaces as EHS professionals and employees.  Today I want to focus on several … Continue reading →

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Union Carbide: Accidental Giant – Part 1

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Chet Brandon

I have been very interested in Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) for a long time.  As a child I saw their huge plants as meccas for the production of modern materials our society was/is built out of.  My first job as … Continue reading →

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What if We Had THE Answers?

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Chet Brandon

I ran across this article from Quartz digital magazine and it really got me thinking.  The article is: Big data is leading scientists to ask bigger questions.  The advent of effective distributed processing as open source software has created access to … Continue reading →

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