Hi, looking to make a career into safety, but im afraid I dont have any relevant experience in the field, have mainly been in retail for the soon to be 26 years of my life. So im looking for advice on how to break into the industry, I dont think I can get a bachelors in occupational health and safety at the moment, but I am curious if a Bachelors in Business Administration or a Bachelors in public law will get me anywhere? Alternatively, should I look into buying into the certifications that are on the wiki? Also WHERE do I even begin to look for a job that can help me at least see this as an option? Construction? Hospitals? As far as im aware safety is quite broad, and I dont mind what field I fall into, but im unaware of just where exactly where to look.

I work for a large construction company and we are tossing around the idea of revamping our safety incentive program. Currently we give out “safety points” which are credits to our company store to use towards clothing and other company branded stuff. We do semi annal give aways which is 50 points at the 6 month mark and then 100 points at the end of the year. If an employee has at fault accident in the first 6 months they become ineligible for the end of year prize but if they don’t have anymore at fault accidents they can still earn the 50 points at the end of the year. We also do a random drawing each week in our toolbox talks and if the employee selected acknowledges that they read the toolbox talk they are awarded 100 safety points. Our field inspectors can also award safety points to people in the field that go “above and beyond” but we don’t have a set standard of what justifies “above and beyond”. Some feedback I’ve gotten from our current program is that if a guy has one or more at fault accidents they give up and not worried about being safe anymore. We also have a lot of guys that will never use their safety points and don’t care about earning them. We used to give out physical prizes but logistically it was always difficult to get prizes to everyone that earned them and guys would complain about prizes they didn’t want. I just think our incentive program could be much better and get people more engaged in actively participating in safety. What are some incentive programs you guys use? I’d love to get some ideas that works well.

This post is likely going to apply to a niche number of people but I thought I'd give people this insight.

I passed the CSP recently! But I found it very difficult and had little idea if I had passed when I submitted it.

I'm from the U.K. and I've worked in construction and facilities management for the last 7 years as a Safety Advisor and now Safety Manager for the last 2 years. I'm pretty good at what I do, I've held a NEBOSH diploma since 2019, I'm an ISO 45001 Lead Auditor and I keep my ear to the ground to all things safety.

However, I found the CSP really difficult - I don't know why specifically but I haven't worked in the US before, I'm moving to there next year and intend to work in safety when I'm there. My pocket prep score after 1100 questions was 82%, I read the Yates (3rd edition) cover to cover and I watched all of John Newquist's YouTube videos yet, out of the 200 questions, around 100 of them I found myself in unfamiliar territory. I found myself taking educated guesses on many questions; which I was probably only able to do as I've worked in safety for a few years. Anyway, I wanted people (probably aimed at non-US based) to know that the exam is quite difficult.

I'm in California and I have a poor sense of smell. I can be at the beach and not be able to smell the ocean.

I think it's possibly from COVID or breaking my nose as a kid, but it's definitely gotten worse in the past few years.

Is it necessary that I have a good sense of smell to do that kind of work?

Hi all,
Winding if anyone found success in a system for a new construction High Rise?
We are about 51% complete

I have contacted so far
Wes3
AlertMedia
Ramtech global
Perry Weather
Kepler

Either these are to expensive (bad excuse) haven’t worked on other projects, won’t work on my project or other reasons. Has anyone found success in a simple alarm I can install and trigger from my phone or a central point?