Safety
Workplace, School, and Everyday Safety Expertise
Children's Safety
Children are often involved in accidents at school, on the playground, and with consumer products. We evaluate how age-related factors, supervision, playground equipment and product design contribute to injuries to children.
School and classroom safety
Dismissal of young students
School bus safety
Science lab explosions and burns
Field trips
Organized sports
Classroom supervision
Safety of classroom activities
Adolescent behavior
Playground equipment
Falls from heights
Playground surfacing materials
Adequacy of supervision
Maintenance
Children's use of age-appropriate equipment
Equipment design
Equipment standard of care
Children and traffic
Age appropriate capabilities and limitations
Behavior
Perception
Memory and learning
Driver expectations
Visibility
Conspicuity of children
Workplace Accidents, Causation
Our consultants evaluate equipment, job design and training. We also analyze the effectiveness of organizations’ risk management programs in controlling workplace hazards for both organizational consulting and litigation support.
Evaluation of risk management programs
The design of the safety program
Policies and procedures
Management practices
Effectiveness of training programs
Curriculum design
Transfer of training to work areas
Post-training evaluation
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Compliance
OSHA violations
Safety climate
Consistency of written/spoken policies with behavior
Perceptions of employees vs. management
Organizational culture
Employee participation
Slips, Trips & Falls
Our consultants evaluate how behavioral expectations and building design interact as they relate to premises accidents. We consider relevant building codes, such as the international building code (IBC), as a standard of care for safety, depending on the construction or modification date.
Stairway falls
Building codes
Handrail usage
Pedestrian expectations
Stairway design
Single riser accidents
Where people look when they walk
Slips, trips, missteps and falls
Coefficient of friction (COF)
Building codes
Pedestrian expectations
Walkway design
Reasonableness of conduct
Where people look when they walk
Tripping hazards
Fences, walls, and gates
Wall construction
Fence stability
Gate closure
Maintenance
Inspections
Injury Prevention Programs
Injury Reduction Programs
In many workplace settings including healthcare and construction, employee injuries are common. Our consultants will perform a comprehensive evaluation that includes focus groups to determine which tasks result in the most injuries. This evaluation will include job and task analyses to identify the specific parts of the job that are problematic to help us work with you to develop solutions.
