Managed Outsourcing for Safety and Health

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Managed Safety and Health Outsourcing

Occupational and environmental health and safety professionals are responsible for the recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors and stresses within the workplace that may cause injury, sickness, disability or death; impaired health or well-being; or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers. As such, it is essential that the individuals tasked with these responsibilities have the support of upper management and the necessary resources and become fully qualified.

Qualifications should include not only education, but also broad-based experience in addressing environmental factors, interpersonal factors, and stresses, as well as the ability to credibly address technical questions and concerns from employees.

Experience is essential for a successful result. Typically, an inexperienced or unqualified person will not be able to identify the myriad of challenging problems that could affect the outcome of monitoring results, or provide practical recommendations for controlling and addressing health and safety issues.

1Source Safety and Health frequently provides clients with safety and health professionals on a short term, long-term, or part-time basis. Depending on the goals of the client and their available resources, 1Source Safety and Health has found that what may have started as a full-time managed outsource position, can sometimes be reduced to a part-time position due to the proactive approach of their program.

1Source Safety and Health offers clients added value by providing the following:

1. No costs associated with training and retraining of in-house staff with regard to whom, what, how, when, and why to sample
2. No need to qualify competency regarding professional standing
3. High level of proficiency with equipment
4. No management time requirements for clients
5. Data collected, analyzed, and interpreted by a third party has a higher level of validity with unions, non-union employees, and regulatory agencies
6. Availability of experts and equipment is guaranteed 24/7/365
7. Team of nine CIHs, two CSPs, two CPEAs and one CPE, plus a staff of safety and health professionals, available to provide technical and situational knowledge base for all safety teams
8. Ability to evaluate employee activities to develop sampling plans that provide meaningful data and save money
9. No need to purchase, maintain, and calibrate equipment, or train staff in the appropriate use of equipment
10. Peer review of data and collaboration with experienced consultants
11. Discounts on chemical and microbiological sample analysis because 1Source Safety and Health is a major vendor to laboratories where samples are analyzed
12. Ability to assess situations and confer with experts

For more information, or to discuss your specific needs regarding safety and health outsourcing at your company, please contact Colin J. Brigham, CIH, CSP, CPEA, CPE Vice President, at 888-873-9983 ext 24.

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Managed Outsourcing - When is it time?

When significant change in performance is needed. That's when.

Our best advise is that significant change in performance is needed when one or more of the following has occurred.

• Downsizing of safety and health staff
• Leadership vacancy in safety or risk management
• Policies and programs take months, or years to be developed and implemented
• In-house technical and management resources are limited
• Experience modification rate (EMR) for workers compensation is above 0.8
• Goals are not being meet
• Safety, health, and environmental management is struggling
• Safety committees are ineffective
• Increase in injuries and illnesses
• New initiatives for safety and health

1Source Safety and Health, Inc. provides permanent and temporary managed outsourcing to healthcare, aerospace, pharmaceutical, manufacturing and commercial settings.

Managed Outsourcing from 1Source Safety and Health, Inc. is designed to focus on areas where there are opportunities to significantly reduce costs and significant change in performance. Our staff of professionals who are certified in many safety and health disciplines will:

• Conduct an analysis of your entire safety and health program
• Evaluate existing safety and health management practices
• Identify areas for quality and compliance enhancements while reducing costs
• Design a Management Action Plan (MAP) to facilitate program implementation
• Design and implement specific programs
• Establish key performance indicators to measure outcomes

Our Managed Outsourcing Programs will provide significant change in performance thereby raising the standard of safety and health management within your organization by:

• Reducing costs and increasing bottom line
• Reducing injuries and illnesses
• Increasing performance and employee satisfaction
• Significantly reducing program timelines
• Maintaining programs
• Reducing non-revenue generating tasks
• Eliminating the need for consultants
• Reducing or eliminating liabilities
• Providing unparalleled expertise and resources

Need more information, or a proposal? Please click on Information Request, or contact Colin J. Brigham, CIH, CSP, CPE, CPEA, Vice President Safety Management and Ergonomics at 888.873.9983, Ext 24 or cbrigham@1ssh.com

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