SH&E Consulting & Expert Witness Support

Program Development

The International Assoc. Safety Health Environmental Professionals (IASHEP) team of experts will work with you to develop customized, written safety programs for your business. This will include a review of your old programs, We cannot write about what we don’t know. 

Our programs can go beyond the basic template and go into specific procedures on how you manage safety, health & environmental programs. Whether it’s a Global Harmonization System (GHS), Process Safety Management (PSM), Behavior Based Programs (BSP) or any other regulatory like programs such as but not limited to OSHA, MSHA, EPA or other types of regulatory program requirements and training our team of professional experts can help you develop them. Our team of experts have over 1000  years of combined experience to draw from.

The Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) process has made a tremendous impact on how safety is valued and perceived within the work environment. BBS is the "application of science of behavior change to real world problems". BBS "focuses on what people do, analyzes why they do it, and then applies a research-supported intervention strategy to improve what people do".

At its very core BBS is based on a larger scientific field called Organizational Behavior Analysis.  Essentially BBS focuses on the immediate safe (or unsafe) behavior and the provision of positive reinforcement to encourage safe work behavior (and reduce at-risk behaviors). 

Safety is a choice. Safety is a series of choices made by workers each day, choices involving behaviors in the workplace. It’s in how you train, what precautions you take when performing tasks, and your level of awareness to external factors that may jeopardize your wellbeing. You might say that ‘safety’ is in how you confront the sum total of different considerations with the potential for negatively impacting personal health.

There are three factors that influence personal safety choices: the ability to recognize hazards and evaluate risk, the motivation to be safe, and the ability to focus while performing the current task safely. 

Behavior Based Safety is a program designed to influence employee actions toward safer outcomes, ideally by preventing an accident or injury before it occurs. Implementing a behavior based safety program is the most comprehensive way for companies to promote safety, eliminate hazards and prevent injuries.

Onsite Assessments 

Do you want to establish safety leaders within your organization, create a world-class safety culture, significantly reduce injuries and sustain a highly successful safety process? Our behavioral safety services consistently deliver these outcomes and more.

The assessment process included the following:

• Site tour to determine behavioral and environmental issues

• Review of safety documentation including accident investigation and other reports to determine existing behavioral risk trends, as well as documentation of the traditional safety process evaluated from a high level traditional safety gap analysis approach

• Administering, scoring and interpreting of a customized safety perception survey

• Individual interviews with key site managers

• Group interviews with supervisors, workers and elected union members

• Site preliminary briefing with leadership

• Detailed internally-actionable report

Want more information on this program?  Please feel free to email karenschomburg@iashep.org

The International Assoc. Safety Health Environmental Professionals (IASHEP) has the right team of subject matter experts to help your company and you investigate accidents, injuries and near misses in the workplace. The situations we investigate internally for organizations are intended to identify why the incident occurred and IASHEP professionals will provide your company with the steps to take to prevent similar situations occurring in the future.

The reports IASHEP prepares for the legal practitioner can assist in establishing negligence or defending a negligent action.

Investigative

In investigating incidents internally for organizations and outside counsel, we identify the factors that contributed to the incident and detail control measures needed to prevent a recurrence. Our analysis identifies the range of factors that contributed to the incident; the type’s of factors we examine are:

• Person factors - training,  experience, activities, supervision, etc. 
• Equipment factors - suitability, condition, design, maintenance, etc. 
• Environmental factors - weather, work conditions, temperature, lighting, etc. 
• Procedural factors - instructions, work practices, systems of work, etc.       

The International Assoc. Safety Health Environmental Professionals (IASHEP) also has the ability to train persons within an organization on how to investigate incidents objectively to reduce the possibility of similar incidents occurring.

Expert Witness Reports

The International Assoc. Safety Health Environmental Professionals (IASHEP)  investigates a wide-range of injuries for both Defendant and Plaintiff matters in regard to personal injury. The reports we prepare have been used in establishing liability or helping bring the matters to settlement. cover a wide range of injuries, both at work and in public places:

• Manual material handling injuries 
• Machine guarding accidents
• Slips / trips / falls on surfaces and stairs 
• Inhalation of hazardous fumes 
• Violent attacks at work 
• Repetitive strain injuries (referred to as Occupational Overuse Syndrome) 
• Falls from heights 
• Electrocutions
• Construction Accidents 
• Entrapment in machinery 
• Injuries in technical education classrooms
• Struck-by tools and equipment 
• Struck by falling merchandise in retail stores

IASHEP does not charge a fee for this service.  IASHEP will link you with one of our professional members and you negotiate the fees and contract directly with them.

Want to learn more about how we can help you win your case?  Please give us a call at (520) 568-5565