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IN THIS ISSUE

>> 1. Sustainability: Keeping Safety from Backsliding
>> 2. How Can We Best Measure Worker Productivity?
>> 3. Workplace Safety Training Protects Workers and the Bottom Line
>> 4. New Study Reinforces Importance of 'People Behind the Product'
>> 5. Developing a Workplace Team Where Everyone's a Leader

This Week's News

1. Sustainability: Keeping Safety from Backsliding

The only thing more difficult than improving safety is making the improvements sustainable.

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2. How Can We Best Measure Worker Productivity?

Can investing in employee health improve the bottom line by making workers more productive? To answer that question, companies need new and better tools for measuring employee productivity, according to an article in the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

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3. Workplace Safety Training Protects Workers and the Bottom Line

Who is responsible for safety on the jobsite – the employer, the government, the safety director, the worker or all of the above?

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4. New Study Reinforces Importance of 'People Behind the Product'

Companies that invest in people development activities to drive customer service, including sales training and employee recognition and rewards, may perform better than firms focusing solely on brand development, marketing and advertising, suggests a new study published by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement.

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5. Developing a Workplace Team Where Everyone's a Leader

As leaders struggle with growing pressures in today’s fast-paced workplace, the way leadership responsibilities are distributed within organizations is changing. According to a Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) leader, shared team leadership is the new approach in encouraging team members to reach their full potential.

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Take the Dupont STOP™ Pop Quiz Challenge.

1. Before I do a routine job, I
 a. assume I know the safe work practices to follow.
 b. sometimes review the safe work practices.
 c. review the safe work practices.
 d. don't think about the safe work practices to follow.

2. I "see safety"
 a. when management makes it an issue.
 b. whenever an unsafe situation occurs.
 c. in every situation, safe or unsafe, on and off the job.
 d. when I’m looking specifically for unsafe situations.

3. When I see a potentially unsafe situation, I
 a. tell someone to correct it immediately.
 b. find out who is responsible and make sure he or she knows I am unhappy.
 c. correct it, then write it up.
 d. correct it as needed and talk with the people responsible for the unsafe situation about working safely.

Click here to Take the Quiz Now

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