Senior Master Sgt. Bilma L. Romero, Sixteenth Air Force, participates in an active-learning exercise during an Occupational Competency Model study at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, Nov. 17, ...

Research shows that compliance-focused safety training alone rarely delivers lasting risk reduction, prompting calls for ...

If the speculation is correct, the indications are that national director for health and work Dame Carol Black’s review into working health, and health minister Lord McKenzie’s review of vocational ...

James Stiles, CSP, explained that the development of Johnson & Johnson's "global health and safety competency model" has been driven by a longstanding upper-management mandate that the company's most ...

The third part of a series of articles on the evolution of OH focuses on OH nurse competencies and education. Noel O’Reilly asks if future training of OH practitioners will take place alongside that ...

We often hear from the Operations team saying, “we don’t get the right people for the job”, complaining about the HR team. The HR team in turn says, “the operations’ team did not know what skills were ...

Competency management systems allow employers to evaluate employees' performance. Use of these systems allows managers and supervisors to identify gaps, deploy remedial training, recruit staff and ...

In HR we pay attention to skills, knowledge and competencies. However, we may undervalue a much vaguer attribute: someone’s experiences. The word “experiences” connotes something different than the ...