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August2024
In a perfect world all risks would be engineered out, but this is not practical. Improving safety performance can be achieved with focus on a few concrete steps, most of which require no monetary investment or facility changes but necessitate the personal commitment and time of all stakeholders.
Leadership and Management are not the same. Leaders foster culture, energize employees and teams, influence and motivate individuals and organizations to envision and achieve a vision and stretch goals. In a rapidly changing, complex, competitive environment with limited and strained resources, and employee tendency to resist change, leaders must be agile, resilient, combat distractions, and eliminate hurdles that prevent employees from dealing with adaptive issues and challenges.
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Signal Training - Eight-Week Ergonomics Series 05 Sep 2025 Signal Safety Management is excited to launch an eight-week series focused on the importance of ergonomics in the maritime industry and how to establish an effective ergonomics program.OSHA Safe + Sound Week: August 11-17, 2025 24 Jul 2025 OSHA’s Safe + Sound Week, taking place this year from August 11–17, 2025. This nationwide event is a great opportunity to highlight your organization's commitment to workplace safety and to engage your employees in strengthening your safety culture.
Operational Alert: SHIPYARD WORK IN MARINE TERMINALS 23 Jul 2025 Operational Alert’s, inform Signal Mutual Members of serious incidents or a significant near-miss within the Mutual. If you have similar operations, please share this Operational Alert with operation managers, supervisors, equipment operators, and all affected employees. It is imperative that management, at all levels review their operations for similar hazardous conditions, acts, and their controls.
Solutions at Work 23 Jul 2025 What is it? Solutions-at-Work or “SAW” are individual ideas where a Member of the Mutual looked at an existing hazard and, through their employee’s years of experience, knowledge, or creativity, developed a Solution to the problem that eliminated or reduced the hazard to employees and the chance of injury.