Does Your Company Have A Safety Culture?
Managers often insist their company has one. Last week’s blog covered the signs of a workplace safety culture. But to really know, you have to ask employees. It takes courage to ask employees what they really think, but doing can boost trust between employees and management. Consider an employee survey that focuses on the company’s safety culture. […]
Signs of a Workplace Safety Culture
Employers miss potential dividends from workplace safety initiatives when they don’t instill safety as part of their corporate culture. A safety culture describes the way the C-Suite, supervisors and employers think, feel and act towards occupational safety. Reflecting the “unspoken rules” about values, priorities and how the work is done, a corporate culture can support […]
Maximizing Your Quality Content Investment
Quality content is an investment. It requires expertise, experience and research. Whether writing it yourself or paying a writer, you might as well get the most from it. Excellent public relations and marketing professionals treat content as a commodity and try to maximize its use. It’s called “re-purposing” in public relations circles; though some get […]
Workers’ Comp and Safety Programs Need a Culture of Sharing
We talk a lot in workers’ compensation about employers having a culture of caring. Employers and employees also benefit from what I call a culture of sharing. In a culture of sharing, employees are aware of what kind of information management needs to improve the company’s safety and workers’ compensation programs. Employees are also empowered […]
Brainstorming Ideas for Blogs, Articles and Other Written Materials
With so many opportunities to showcase expertise online, sooner or later, you will probably need to write something. It could be a blog, a newsletter article or a thought piece. Perhaps the marketing department approaches you for content or you want to build your reputation through Internet or print publishing. Whatever the case, you need ideas […]
Ten Attributes of Quality Content
Do you find that too many bloggers publish more for their own edification than yours? How about blogs and web content that are just trying to sell you something? Readers like me are demanding better content — and rightly so. You are busy and do not want to waste precious time reading lousy blogs. If […]
Thank You Work Comp Analysis Group!
Thanks to the Work Comp Analysis Group for making my discussion, “Prevent Workers’ Compensation Costs with Safety,” the most popular blog of the week. With more than 20,000 members, this is the largest LinkedIn Group covering workers’ compensation. To learn more about the group and its founder, click here. Another safety post is coming soon! […]
Are You Too Obsessed with Google Algorithm Changes?
Here’s a cute blog for the first day of summer on a Friday afternoon. It relates to my recent post on appropriate blog length. –Annmarie The Simple Cure for Google Algorithm Update Anxiety by Chad Pollitt Google Algorithm Update Anxiety (GAUA) is a serious disorder that afflicts many marketers around the world. The condition was first […]
Prevent Workers’ Compensation Costs through Safety
Employers can do a lot to save money on workers’ compensation by preventing work-related injuries, illness and deaths in the first place. I know this from the perspective of a writer whose career began more than 20 years ago writing about occupational safety and health for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). What I […]
Are Longer Blogs Better Than Shorter Ones?
If there is one thing you can count on when it comes to social media it is this: Nobody is really an expert. It’s impossible. New opportunities to reach your audience are constantly coming online. And the rules change. The big chatter among social media professionals is that Google has changed its algorithms in an […]
