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7 Technologies That Can Improve Occupational Health and Safety Practices

7 Technologies That Can Improve Occupational Health and Safety Practices

The ways technology can be incorporated into your business—and the benefits it provides—might surprise you.

Safety 2023 Keynote: Sharing Stories to Make Meaningful Relationships

Safety 2023 Keynote: Sharing Stories to Make Meaningful Relationships

Award-winning musician and songwriter Jimmy Yeary shows attendees of ASSP’s safety conference and expo in San Antonio how storytelling can create relationships that lead to change.

Doug Parker Returns to Safety 2023 to Provide an OSHA Update

The Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health will deliver a recently added special general session on June 7.

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Trends in Lone Worker Safety

Issues and strategies in protecting individuals working alone, as well as some results from an upcoming survey on lone worker safety.

Strategies for Building a Culture of Safety

Strategies for Building a Culture of Safety

Leadership, relationships and training can all play a role in your workers’ safety, business and experience modification rate.

What Can Workers and Employers Do to Prevent Injuries?

What Can Workers and Employers Do to Prevent Injuries?

Although employers are responsible for providing a safe work environment, everyone plays a role in safety.

Heat Stroke: Teach the TACO Method

Heat Stroke: Teach the TACO Method

If cold water immersion is not an option, the Tarp-Assisted Cooling Oscillation method for treating heat stroke sufferers can save lives on remote jobsites.

What Is Rotational Motion and Its Role in Concussions?

What Is Rotational Motion and Its Role in Concussions?

Understanding rotational motion can better protect workers from head injuries and long-term risks.



Every Worker, Everywhere, All at Once

Every Worker, Everywhere, All at Once

How real-time location services are helping gas & oil companies implement individualized safety monitoring.

The Key to Safety During Lockout/Tagout

The Key to Safety During Lockout/Tagout

One critical element of protection during LOTO procedures is the use of arc-rated flame resistant (AR/FR) clothing.

Q&A: Preventing Arc Flash and Shock Hazards

Q&A: Preventing Arc Flash and Shock Hazards

A safety expert sits down with OH&S magazine to discuss why implementing proper risk assessment goes hand-in-glove with having the right PPE.

Choosing a Hard Hat

Choosing a Hard Hat

What you should know about the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 protective hard hats.

Getting the Right Fit

Getting the Right Fit

How women’s PPE creates a safe and inclusive job site.

Summertime Safety Planning

Summertime Safety Planning

The heat’s coming and, with it, multiple safety challenges. Here’s how to make sure your team’s ready.

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Don’t forget to get back to basics of chemical safety and industrial hygiene.

Elevating Real-Time Gas Detection

Elevating Real-Time Gas Detection

24/7 live monitoring elevates safety programs in a number of ways.

Working in Isolation: Protecting Your Most Vulnerable Employees

Working in Isolation: Protecting Your Most Vulnerable Employees

Many oil and gas workers can operate as lone workers. Fortunately, there are technologies that can help protect isolated and remote employees.

Safety Culture’s Ink Blot Test

Safety Culture’s Ink Blot Test

How to identify the soft spots in your safety culture.

The Details of AEDs

The Details of AEDs

What you didn’t know about CPR and defibrillation could save a life.

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