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Top Tips to Reduce the Spread of Infection

19 January 2021

Infectious diseases pose a great threat to the workforce day in, day out, and have the capability to disrupt more than just business operations. Even in a “normal” year, we have to consider various “typical” illnesses and strive to mitigate transmission from one employee to another; but with COVID ...

How to fast-track your journey to health and safety ROI

14 January 2021

How much does an ‘on the job’ accident cost? For starters, there are the direct costs, which include medical expenses for the injured worker, workers' compensation payments, medical expenses, and costs for legal services. Accidents also have indirect costs, and when they are added to the direct ...

Top 5 Trends For Health and Safety in 2021

07 January 2021

When a year is almost over, it’s time for reflection of what has happened for the last 12 months—and, of course, that leads to speculating about what the new year will bring. At SHE Software we are always thinking about how important it is for health and safety organizations to be able to look at ...

Avoid the health and safety black hole and get visible by ditching your spreadsheets

17 December 2020

How challenging is it to ensure the visibility of health and safety performance and compliance across your organization? What role do spreadsheets play in your health and safety programs? If it seems like a great deal of important health and safety data and information is not easily accessible, it ...

Safe Spaces: Building Psychologically Safe Workplaces with EHS Software

15 December 2020

Did you know that 76 percent of employees in the US have dealt with issues at work that have negatively affected their mental health? Or that 12.8 million working days were lost in the UK alone because of work-related stress, anxiety, and depression? In addition, 300,000 workers in the UK ...

How to Mitigate Risks in 2021

10 December 2020

Put simply, risk is the possibility of something bad happening. Risk involves uncertainty about the implications of an activity with respect to something we value. In the workplace, what we value is the safety of ourselves and our coworkers. We know that every workplace has risks and hazards and, ...

Employee Spotlight: Our Team Behind Your Success...Langdon Dement

08 December 2020

In this edition of our employee spotlight, we speak with our very own Global EHS Specialist, Langdon Dement, about global safety best practices, safety ROI and ‘Frozen’.

Health and safety: Making total employee engagement your North Star

03 December 2020

For centuries, sailors and other travelers in the northern hemisphere have used the North Star as a guide because it marks the way due north. In recent years, Silicon Valley companies commandeered the idea of the North Star as a guide and created the North Star Metric. The original idea was to ...

Survey Says: Technology And Leadership Are Key to Improving Workplace Safety

17 November 2020

At the end of 2019, EHS Today created a ‘state of the EHS industry’ report based on responses from 556 survey participants. In the report, they highlight the differences between high-performing health and safety programs and those that perform poorly.

No budget, no problem: How safety software delivers ROI to the business

29 October 2020

Company leadership teams often perceive health and safety as a cost center that does not contribute to revenue. Because of this, they try to keep investment in the area to a minimum. Health and safety professionals often tell us that they do not have a budget for software. We hear this far more ...