“Investing in technologies that monitor employees is an ever-increasing employer trend,” says Don Groover, senior vice president of DEKRA Organizational Safety and Reliability, who wants you to consider your motivations for installing monitoring devices.
“In our consulting work, we routinely see companies simply aiming programs at problems instead of developing strategy,” says Shawn M. Galloway, president of ProAct Safety. He identifies 10 common problems.
When it comes to preventing exposure to flames, fumes, gases and electrical hazards, “people become complacent and forget the basics,” one expert cautions.