HSI EHS Professional Communications Cafe

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Communications Cafe

In a field where lives and wellbeing are at stake, the ability to communicate clearly and effectively is essential. Keep reading to find a variety of resources to help you refine your communication skills, including writing, communicating with leadership and employees, teaching, and more.

Understanding Regulations

Before communicating safety initiatives, it's essential to fully understand the regulations your company must meet. These regulations — whether federal, state, or local — establish the standards and practices necessary to create a safe working environment, reducing the risk of accidents and injuries. By being well-versed in these guidelines, you can effectively convey the importance of safety protocols and ensure compliance. Having this knowledge will help you demonstrate your company's commitment to employee well-being, and promote a safer and productive workplace.

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[Webinar] What Safety Training Do You Need? Mapping Training to OSHA Regulations

Join HSI Chief Safety Officer and former state OSHA inspector Jill James as she shows you how to dig into OSHA regulations, understanding them, and where to find training mandates, including frequency of training.

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[Assessment] OSHA Safety Training Assessment

Do you wish you had time to read ALL the Federal OSHA regulations? Well, we’ve done it for you! Answer a series of questions specific to your worksite (that align with OSHA training requirements), and download your customized report.

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[Blog] State-Specific Anti-Harassment Training + More

Do you know all the rules for regulating inappropriate behavior in the United States workplace? Each state (and even some cities, such as New York City) has its own unique set of specific requirements, demanding a tailored approach to compliance training that aligns perfectly with local regulations.

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[Blog] Making Sense of the OSHA 300 Log and OSHA Forms 300A and 301

OSHA’s recordkeeping requirements can be cumbersome, however, they can be easier to manage if you know where to find resources, use modern systems to help manage them and use the data to advance your health and safety initiatives.

Refining Communication Skills

EHS professionals require a range of communication soft skills — such as teaching, speaking, writing, and interpersonal communication — to effectively manage safety in diverse environments. As the field evolves, refining these communication skills is essential. Strong communication enables EHS professionals to convey safety protocols to employees, ensure compliance across the organization, and effectively engage with different audiences. It will also help you clearly articulate risks and solutions to stakeholders, fostering collaboration and contributing to a more proactive workplace.

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[Webinar] Stop yelling at me! How soft skills make you a better safety person.

To be effective in your job, you have to be skilled at communication, winning people over, and sometimes having difficult conversations. And those entail shifting your role from working AGAINST others to working WITH them.

[Webinar] Telling is not Selling: What EHS can Learn from Sales Leaders

Safety professionals often joke about the work being a 'sales job' as we are selling the ideals of health and safety to leaders and employees. The truth is, the skills and techniques used by sales professionals can be implemented by EHS professionals daily.

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[White Paper] Writing Learning Objectives

Well-written learning objectives are the foundation for effective training programs. However, for successful training, your learning objectives should be created from the tasks you identified in your Job Task Analysis. By tying tasks to training through your learning objectives, you develop effective training.

[eBook] Guide to Building an Inclusive Feedback Culture

Feedback has always been an essential component of a high-performing workplace. But while the fundamentals of feedback are much the same, the modern workplace requires a more nuanced approach. So how can you help your people leaders embrace and build a culture of inclusive feedback?

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[eBook] Building Inclusive People Leaders

Inclusive work cultures enable employees to bring their authentic selves and best ideas to work each day. Your people leaders, with their direct access and day-to-day impact on the employee experience, are a vital component of your DEI initiatives.

[eBook] Don't Forget the Human Element of Your Safety Program

In this comprehensive guide, find five practical yet highly impactful steps to reevaluate work environments, effectively bringing human-centered safety to life within these organizations. Discover a fresh perspective and actionable steps to elevate safety in your organization.

[Podcast] #100: How Important are Soft Skills in Safety?

Fighting the “safety cop” stereotype can be a difficult task. Nadia Ullah Morin shares the skills she learned from day-to-day team building, pushing back on the cop mentality, and paving her way to being a true leader in the EHS world. Learn how you can use your soft skills to bring people together and make safety everyone’s job.

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[Blog] How to Practice Mindful Communication at Work

Mindfulness practice is popular in yoga and meditation but it also applies in the workplace. Think about being more present, having greater clarity in conversation, and multitasking less. Be more thoughtful about the tone you use. Develop empathy and non-violent communication with your co-workers, customers, and suppliers.

Connecting with Leadership

Effective communication with C-suite executives is key to successfully implementing workplace safety initiatives in organizations of any size. You need to be able to present safety measures in terms that resonate with top leaders, focusing on the things that matter to them, like cost savings, risk management, and compliance. By showing how safety directly impacts the company's bottom line and reputation, you can secure the support and resources needed. Bridging the gap between technical safety details and executive priorities helps align safety with broader organizational goals and fosters a stronger safety culture.

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[White Paper] 8 Key Questions for Effectively Selecting an EHS Management System

By asking the right questions, you can uncover potential roadblocks and understand how change can positively impact your organization. To assist you in this process, we've curated eight key questions to consider when evaluating an EHS platform.

[White Paper] 6 Steps to Build Leadership Buy-In for EHS Technology

Cultivating a workplace culture that prioritizes health and safety is achievable if EHS professionals demonstrate the value of a strategic investment in safety technologies. But to do so, you must take a new approach and learn the language of the C-suite.

[White Paper] How to Calculate and Maximize the ROI of Your EHS Platform

If your organization isn’t already looking at deploying an EHS software platform, you’re at risk of falling behind. In a Verdantix survey, 53% of respondents to their yearly EHS budget survey indicated they were increasing their EHS budgets next year. Businesses know this, but it can be hard for the EHS leader to get executive buy-in.

[White Paper] The ROI of Online Safety Training

Online training in the workplace has grown tremendously over the past two decades. While much of the recent growth has come from the rise in remote work, online training also offers benefits to workers who interact daily with machinery and equipment. If you are considering adding this to your training program, remember that quality does matter – especially for the adult learner.

[eBook] How to Calculate a Safety Budget That Gets Approved

EHS professionals often find that creating a departmental budget is one of the toughest parts of their job and an area they are left to figure out on their own, without training or support. If you find yourself in that very situation, wishing you had a budget, needing to put one together to justify necessary costs, and unsure where to start, this eBook is for you.

[eBook] The Costs of Not Training Employees

Training your employees costs money. But what are the costs you incur when you don't train them? If you need help making the business case for training your employees, check out our ebook on “The Costs of Not Training.” What are the biggest losses that come with not training?

[Podcast] 116: Advice From HSI's CEO: Approaching Leadership, Mentorship, and the Three Es

Jill sat down with HSI CEO Chad Birckelbaw to discuss the challenges and responsibilities of EHS professionals, the importance of aligning with leaders, and the need for continuous learning and personal development.

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[Blog] Understanding Safety Leadership for CEOs & Management Teams

For the safety professional, having a leader acknowledge that workplace safety success begins with corporate leadership’s advocacy, is the often unrealized dream of the profession. Numerous articles are written about it because this problem remains a serious pain-point for EHS professionals. Why? Management support is directly connected to their success in creating a safe-minded culture.

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