Three Steps to Acknowledging Your Mistakes | Management Tips
You've made a mistake at work. It's visible, consequential, and embarrassing. Here's the good news: It's a chance to prove you're a leader.
LEED Construction IAQ Management Plan | Safety Tips
Indoor air quality, and in a broader sense and perhaps more accurately, indoor environmental quality, IEQ, has risen to the top of the list of worker complaints over the last decade.
High Definition Laser Scanning | Crime Scene Tips
The ability to capture every aspect of spatial data at the scene of a crime allows investigators to revisit the evidence therein as it was originally found.
Top 10 ways to Operationalize Your Managerial Goals | Management Tips
Here are some ways to improve your ability to set and achieve goals.
How Does LEED Construction Impact Health and Safety | Safety Tips
In working through the LEED rating system requirements there are particular areas to which the health and safety manager should pay attention.
Capturing System Volatile Information | Crime Scene Tips
Triaging a computer can be a methodology to avoid many of the issues inherent with “pulling the plug” on a live system. For instance, capturing the system volatile information can very quickly provide investigators valuable information.
Coaching to Improve Employee Performance | Management Tips
Coaching often provides positive feedback about employee contributions. At the same time, regular coaching brings performance issues to an employee's attention when they are minor, and assists the employee to correct them.
Why Bother With LEED? | Safety Tips
According to the USGBC, decreased operating costs, increased property values, increased productivity, reduced absenteeism, improved risk management, and verified building performance are seen with LEED certified buildings.
Assembling a Fingerprint Kit | Crime Scene Tips
Let’s take a look at what you need for basic fingerprint kit. This kit should include different types of powders and brushes to identify prints on different surfaces.
Can You Hear Me Now | Management Tips
Do you find yourself partially listening, letting your mind drift, and/or formulating your response even before the other person has finished what they are saying? If so, active listening might be the answer to better your communication skills.
No Single Glove Will Protect against All Harmful Substances | Safety Tips
Given the myriad glove types and materials, it is imperative that both employees and supervisors know which gloves are suitable for the task at hand.
Evidence Response Technicians Take Up the Slack | Crime Scene Tips
In most cases, one or two CSOs are not enough to cover the whole territory the department is responsible for. Many departments are looking to evidence response technicians to solve the problem.
What kind of manager are you? | Management Tips
Helping and managing others is hard without understanding what kind of person you are and what areas you can improve in.
How do we know if noise is excessive? | Safety Tips
Excess noise is not a good thing. It can make conversation difficult, affect concentration, distract workers, and increase fatigue. How do we know if the noise is excessive?
Collecting Computers into Evidence | Crime Scene Tips
In the vast majority of computer related investigations, magistrates allow their seizure. There are certain steps that must be taken to ensure the integrity of potential digital evidence.
Great Managers Are Revolutionaries | Management Tips
People don’t change that much. Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough.
Label All Chemicals Properly | Safety Tips
Don't leave a booby trap for another person. Make sure that all containers are appropriately labeled. OSHA's hazard communication standard and lab standards require labeling of containers.
Obtaining Tool Mark Impressions | Crime Scene Tips
The following describes a modified technique for obtaining tool mark impressions utilizing polyvinylsiloxane impression material.
How to Listen to New Ideas | Management Tips
One of the key lessons of improvisational comedy is the term “Yes, and.” The idea is that the actor accepts whatever comes at him and instead of fighting it, says “yes” to it. This really works in most business settings, too.
Require Grounded Plugs on All Electrical Equipment | Safety Tips
The National Safety Council reports that about 1,000 people are electrocuted each year in the United States. OSHA specifies that all equipment in the workplace be grounded to avoid shock and possible electrocution.
Get the Most from Your Crime Scene | Crime Scene Tips
These days, crime scene officers are capable of doing more forensic work right at the scene. The more you can do in the field, the more the scientists in the lab can do to verify your work.
Successful Delegation of Authority | Management Tips
As a manager, you make daily decisions about the appropriate leadership style to employ in each work situation. You want to foster employee involvement and employee empowerment to enable your team members to contribute their best effort.
Remove All Electrical Connections From Inside Chemical Refrigerators and Require Magnetic Closures | Safety Tips
Standard refrigerators should not be used for storage of flammable or reactive chemicals. Electrical connections within the refrigerator can be an ignition source for flammable vapors.
Lifting Prints from Wet Surfaces | Crime Scene Tips
Fingerprints will remain intact on wet surfaces. You have two options for developing and lifting latent fingerprints from them.
Require Grounded Plugs and Install Ground Fault Interrupters Where Appropriate | Safety Tips
The National Safety Council reports that about 1,000 people are electrocuted each year in the United States. OSHA specifies that all equipment in the workplace be grounded to avoid shock and possible electrocution.
