BLR's John Brady was recently interviewed on a podcast by Ken Rayment of the www.Betterprocess.com to discuss BLR’s latest salary survey for exempt personnel. Rayment, owner of this interesting website for small to mid-size manufacturing firms, was intrigued by the results that showed that the biggest pay raises in 2006 will go to a group of heretofore unsung heroes, Purchasing Managers. They will earn the highest average 2006 raise (9.35%). But guess who came in second - Occupational Health and

Overall my opinion is that sample policies from outside your organization are helpful. You can't be slavish about following them though. Instead, use them as a guide and as a stimulus to your thinking - they are always going to suggest points that wouldn't have occurred to you otherwise. It's almost a guarantee that they will improve your overall program.. The one danger I can think of is the obvious one. If you just use the canned policy without applying it to your unique situation you will have

Hi Nicole, Your timing is very good. Safety.BLR.com is celebrating June as National Safety Month with our workplace safety center. There are lots of resources there to help with training - check it out at http://safety.blr.com/collection.cfm/collection/8 As a futher part of the celebration we have a special deal where we are giving away a download of this month's employee safety newsletter - Safety Works. That issue has a short article about electrical safety and lockout tagout - you are welcome

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One of my colleagues just got back from an OSHA roundtable where there was a lot of discussion about safety orientation for new employees. The consensus was that most new employee orientation takes place around HR themes. When it does involve safety training , the documentation is poor. Is that the experience of people visiting this forum? Also, the question of safety training for temporary employees came up. Most folks say little is done, and they tend to believe the responsibility for that rests

Hi Mandrake, I would be a slacker if I didnt mention a few BLR DVD's that might help you in this training. You can see the entire list of Spanish language videos at http://www.blr.com/language.cfm?language_id=1&showAll=true For constrution training products go to this link: http://www.blr.com/topic.cfm/topic/60 All of our safety videos (lots of them) are seen on this page http://www.blr.com/formats.cfm/format/7/market/3 Lastly, call our 800 number and a product specialist will try to help, or

Folks, we don't want this Forum thread to get too commercial. In the interest of full disclosure I will list a few resources i found on the web: BLR has 2 products that might help, although they are primarly designed for accidents that have happened. They could probably be used for near miss tracking though: - Illness and Injury Tracker - http://www.blr.com/product.cfm/product/10004700/funcode/WI05 - My Safety Manager - an optional upgrade to Safety.BLR.com membership https://www.blr.com/trial/lpi_dynamic/mySafetyManager.aspx?product=53100100