How to Prevent Workplace Injuries

Workers' compensation creates frustration for employers because most don't understand how they can lower their costs.

Summer is vacation season. But rather than taking a road trip, one safety expert suggests taking a metaphorical "guilt trip" to reduce workplace accidents and injuries.

"I think we can put people—including ourselves—on a guilt trip for safety and thereby increase self-responsibility for injury prevention," explains E. Scott Geller, a noted safety thought leader and senior partner at Safety Performance Solutions.

 For more, read "The Guilt Trip: Increasing Self-Responsibility for Safety"in sister publication EHS Today.

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