HSI July Newsletter

Your monthly digest of EHS, Compliance, and Professional Development resources & news for you and your business, with something for everyone.

Featured

Calling all Safety Professionals — We'd like to celebrate you! 

At Safety 2024 in Denver, visit us in booth 1559, meet Jill James, host of the Accidental Safety Pro podcast, and help us create episodes featuring you and the work you do. We’ll be recording right in the booth (audio only for those of you who are video-shy)! Share how you got into this work, what you’ve learned along the way, favorite things about your job, or what advice you would give your younger self when you began your safety journey.

Announcements

Department of Labor Announces $12.7 Million in Funding Opportunities for Workplace Safety

Through the Susan Harwood Training Grant Program, the DOL has released grant funds to support employee safety, health training, and education. Grants fall into three categories: Targeted Topic Training, Training and Educational Materials Development, and Capacity Building.

The deadline is July 25, 2024, so check out the resources and apply to take your workplace health and safety training program to the next level.

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HSI at Industry Events

If you are attending industry events, be sure to visit HSI. We would love to meet you in person!

• HSI is a sponsor of the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) School Safety Conference. If you’re in Phoenix July 14-15, visit us in booth #511 and learn how active shooter response training with AVERT can be an important part of your school safety program.
• ASSP Safety 2024: If you’re in Denver August 7-9, stop by booth #1559 to join our podcast, say hi to HSI staff, and enter to win a Lego set. Join us Wednesday, August 7th for the session Telling Is Not Selling: What We Can Learn From Sales Leaders (our own Jill James and Bryan Janzing are presenting with Dr. Todd Loushine).
• HSI Blue Ocean Brain is a sponsor at IQPC CLO Exchange in Boston, August 11-13. Megan Akin will be presenting at the USE Case Session on The Other Side of AI: The Role of Emotional Intelligence and Business Mentorship

Updated Courses

Cybersecurity: We’ve updated eight existing courses and added six additional courses on topics like malware, ransomware, social engineering, GDPR, DDoS attacks, and multiple courses to help employees learn regulations and enhance their own cybersecurity.

Basic First Aid: this new 40-minute course is a true hybrid with both video and interactive content containing supplemental materials and exams. We’ve also released a brief, overview version for refresher training. It is available as a multi-language package, allowing your employees to select the appropriate language upon launching the course. Languages in addition to English include Spanish, French, and many others.

Resources

[New White Paper] Buying Online Safety Training: 10 Questions to Ask Vendors

Selecting the right online training provider is a critical decision that can significantly impact your organization’s training effectiveness, compliance, and overall productivity. This guide focuses on the essential questions you should ask potential online training vendors to make an informed decision.

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[New Tool] Calculating the Cost of Employee Disengagement

Understand how much employee disengagement costs your organization with this calculator. Our interactive tool will help guide ROI (return on investment) discussions on employee learning and engagement.

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[New White Paper] How to Solve the Talent Crisis with Talent Development

Employee disengagement is resulting in huge costs to companies — some estimates point to as much as 34% of disengaged employees’ annual salaries. And direct replacement costs can reach as high as 50%-60% of an employee’s annual salary, with total costs [associated with turnover] ranging from 90% to 200% of the yearly wage.” Talent, Human Resources, and Learning and Development (L&D) professionals are feeling the pressure to keep their people from disengaging and leaving while also battling tightening budgets and bandwidth.

Our white paper, How to Solve the Talent Crisis with Talent Development, offers new insights into how your L&D ecosystem can drive engagement, productivity, and retention.

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Guess the Movie Quote Answer

Thanks for playing along!

Quote: “That was the summer of 1963—when everybody called me Baby, and it didn’t occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn’t wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I’d never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman’s.”

Answer: Dirty Dancing (1987), Character: Baby Houseman, played by Jennifer Grey