Five Reasons to Hold a Meeting | Management Tips
Before you hold your next meeting, be sure you and the others at the meeting know why it's being held. Meetings can drag on and feel like a waste of time if the goals are not clear to all in attendance.
Allocate a Portion of the Departmental Budget to Safety | Safety Tips
The establishment of a separate accounting line for safety and health related purchases is essential. This allows you to clearly track monies expended for this purpose.
7 Safety Training Guidelines | Safety Tips
Examine your current safety training model using the OSHA voluntary training guidelines.
Five Ideas to Increase Your Productivity at Work | Management Tips
Finding it hard to carve out time to get important things done? Checking email, people at your office door, unexpected meetings can all fill time but may not be getting you any closer to getting your own work done or to move ahead on projects.
Saying No to the Boss | Management Tips
If you’re the boss, you don’t necessarily want to hear the word “no.” If you have an issue or concern with a boss’s ideas, it’s not easy or may not be welcome to disagree. So is saying “no” taboo in the workplace?
3 Important Safety Questions | Safety Tips
To help answer these questions we suggest first taking a hard look at your facility’s safety record.
Getting it Right the Second Time | Management Tips
Repeating yourself and doing it using different methods of communication can enhance persuasion and buy-in.
Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor Decon Safety | Safety Tips
How could an employee become exposed to hydrogen peroxide using HPV systems? What can you do to prevent this from happening?
Are You a Manager or a Leader? | Management Tips
All leaders are managers but not all managers are leaders. Both managers and true leaders get things done through others, but managers do so by virtue of their specific position within their organizations, while true leaders— regardless of their official rank—do so by inspiring others. A real leader may occupy any position, from CEO of a large corporation, to first-line supervisor of a six-person work unit. The distinction is not in their official roles. It is in how they run their organizations. Managers focus on tasks; leaders focus on people.
Measuring Excessive Room Noise | Safety Tips
How do we evaluate room noise and what criteria should we be aiming below when designing facilities or making corrections?
The Myth of Work and Life Balance | Management Tips
No wonder a recent survey of North American employees found that 87 percent of respondents say their work/life balance is negatively affecting their health. If you’ve been killing yourself trying to achieve daily work/life balance, it may be a pipe dream.
Pros and Cons of Fume Hood Designs | Safety Tips
With average chemical fume hoods exhausting around 750 to 1000 cubic feet per minute of conditioned air, you can see how hoods put a large load on a laboratory’s HVAC system and thus impact the operational costs.
Three Ways to Say No Without Saying No | Management Tips
We’ve all been there. A team member comes up to you with a “great idea.” Sometimes the idea is good, but maybe not great. Sometimes the idea has little merit. How do you respond in these situations without deflating the energies and passion of your team?
How Much Does Your Employee Turnover Cost? | Management Tips
Finding and keeping good employees can be a manager's biggest challenge. This online employee turnover calculator can help assess the financial damage that high turnover can create in an organization.
Four Tips for Conflict-Busting Conversations in the Workplace | Management Tips
The following tips will teach you how to turn your next meeting with conflicting employees into a productive conversation.
Training and Safeguards with Using Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor | Safety Tips
Vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) or hydrogen peroxide vapor (HPV) is gaining popularity and we are seeing rapid expansion of its use for everything from biological safety cabinets to animal rooms.
Leadership Reality Check | Management Tips
These seven “leadership realities” are often overlooked or undervalued in organizations.
6 Ideas to Improve Team Performance | Management Tips
Poor team performance and productivity is like leaving money on the table.
3 Strategies for Dealing with Toxic Leadership | Management Tips
Neutralizing assaults and waiting before responding can help deflect the problems of "working for a boss like that."
Worker Protection with PPE | Safety Tips
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is our last line of defense because it means the hazard has actually made it to us—and without the PPE, injury may very likely occur.
Best Practices with Interns | Management Tips
Interns can offer a company many positive attributes that can offset the time and energy needed to educate and mentor them.
Why don't managers delegate more effectively? | Management Tips
By taking a closer look at why delegation may not be their strong suit, managers can learn how to move beyond the fears of delegation and start doing it effectively.
What to Look for When Selecting a Health and Safety Consultant | Safety Tips
Before choosing a consultant, you must first define the problem or project and its scope as thoroughly as possible.
Seven Signs You May be a Bad Manager | Management Tips
Even if you have no doubts about your management abilities, it might be wise to take a moment of introspection to see if any of these Seven Signs You May Be a Bad Manager could apply to you.
The Three Levels of Leadership | Management Tips
One of the challenges many managers and leaders face is in understanding the distinctions between levels of leadership. In fact, there is a whole level of leadership that many people don't even realize exists.