A lot of safety training is built forward from a calendar. January is slips and falls. February is lockout. March is ergonomics. April is workplace violence. The topics may be important, and many may be required, but the calendar often moves independently from the organization’s actual loss experience. That is a missed opportunity. Every near miss, injury, workers’ compensation claim, return-to-work delay, supervisor observation, and modified duty challenge contains information. Some of it is obvious. A worker slipped. A driver backed into a fixed object. A warehouse employee strained a shoulder. A maintenance worker cut a hand. But the useful information sits […]