Require Good Housekeeping Practices in all Areas | Safety Tips
Good housekeeping is one of the foundations of good safety practice. When people are trained to clean-up and put things away as soon as they are done using them, their work areas are safer, more spacious, and more productive.
Gang Members Use Social Media | Crime Scene Tips
In their online chat sessions, gang members discuss activities that include the planning and execution of crimes, drug cultivation and distribution, and the buying and selling of weapons.
10 Ways to Handle Your Mistakes | Management Tips
The ways in which we handle our goof-ups, guffaws, screw-ups, bad decisions, miscalculations, and blunders are critical—our reputations are at stake. And as managers, we should role model the behaviors we seek in others.
Use Warning Signs to Designate Particular Hazards | Safety Tips
The use of warning signs to designate particular hazards is not just a good idea—it's the law.
How to Collect Internet Evidence | Crime Scene Tips
The courts have generally accepted evidence collected from the Internet as long as its authenticity can be established. Commonly accepted digital forensic methodologies can all be used to identify a three-pronged approach to Internet forensics.
Hard Work Can Propel You to the Top | Management Tips
There's never been a tougher time to be a part of the job market, and people are scrambling to show employers they have what it takes. The secret to success may be simpler than you thought: hard work.
Avoid Purchasing Unnecessary Quantities of Chemicals | Safety Tips
One school accumulated 20 five-pound bottles of mercury. Each year they ordered from the same list used the year before! Not a good idea. You need to know what you have and where it's located.
Using Positive Reinforcement in Employee Motivation | Management Tips
Positive reinforcement is the practice of rewarding desirable employee behavior in order to strengthen that behavior. For example, when you praise an employee for doing a good job, you increase the likelihood of him/her doing that job very well again.
Store Incompatible Chemicals Separately | Safety Tips
The proper storage of chemicals has become a focal point of laboratory safety. We need to keep chemicals which are incompatible separated some reasonable distance from each other. At the same time, the law of diminishing returns applies here.
Use a Checklist to Document a Crime Scene | Crime Scene Tips
Using a checklist to document a crime scene is your reminder to look at everything; insurance that even if you get distracted, you will go back; and a record that you looked for each type of evidence even if none was present.
Three Important Management Tips | Management Tips
This list of tips is intended to help you focus on the key issues that are important to your success as a manager.
Keep Emergency Phone Numbers Next to Every Phone | Safety Tips
In an emergency, you tend to forget even the most common things. Having emergency phone numbers for the fire, police, and local ambulance by every phone is a very important reminder.
The Control Freak Manager | Management Tips
Many over-controlling managers can’t really help themselves. Because of their own background and training—or lack of training—tightly controlling every aspect of every job might be the only way they know.
Planning for Emergencies | Safety Tips
It's important to develop plans and conduct drills for dealing with emergencies such as fire, explosion, poisoning, chemical spill, vapor release, and personal contamination. The list is incomplete. Let's add bleeding, burns, medical situations, electric shock, and weather emergencies.
Fingerprint Brushes can Contaminate DNA Evidence | Crime Scene Tips
Fingerprint brushes can become easily contaminated. New brushes should be used for each crime scene, and the brush used in a homicide case should become part of the evidence.
How to Fire Someone | Management Tips
This article is no longer available. You can view the original article on the author's website at: Alison Green “On Careers”
Do Not Store Food in Chemical Refrigerators | Safety Tips
Prohibiting the storage of food in chemical refrigerators is one of the basic rules of good practice. It is intended to prevent the ingestion of toxic or infectious materials. The food will absorb the vapors from the chemicals in the refrigerator and then they will be consumed.
Ten Common Mistakes Managers Make | Management Tips
Most managers have achieved their positions by coming up “through the ranks.” Unfortunately, however, none of the qualities that got them there guarantees that they will be good at supervising other people.
Forbid Smoking, Eating, and Drinking in the Laboratory | Safety Tips
The practice of forbidding smoking, eating, and drinking in laboratories is one of the basic good hygiene practices. Unfortunately, it is often one of the most frequently disregarded.
Limit Amounts of Flammable Liquids in Each Lab | Safety Tips
There seems to be a special law of nature that leads to the accumulation of chemicals in laboratories. When these chemicals are flammable, the safety of the lab's residents can be seriously compromised.
Five Factors Every Employee Wants From Work | Management Tips
I've added and subtracted items from the list, and I've explained them in different ways over the years, but fundamentally, people want five things from their job.
Extend the Safety Program Beyond the Lab | Safety Tips
The effectiveness of safety programs depends on their ability to motivate people to care about their health and safety. When people view this caring process as part of their whole life and not just part of their job, it becomes all the more effective.
Management Is Not a Popularity Contest | Management Tips
This article is no longer available. You can view the original article on the author's website at: Alison Green “On Careers”
Questioned Documents | Crime Scene Tips
Through visual examination or advanced chemical analysis of inks and paper, forensic investigators can determine information relating to a questioned document's authentication, authorship or creation date.
Processing a Fire or Arson Scene | Crime Scene Tips
The investigator should control access to a fire scene after fire suppression and see that evidence is collected, stored, and transported so that it will not be contaminated. Follow this walkthrough to properly process the scene.
