June 2019
- RISK MANAGEMENT: OSHA's Crystalline Silica Standards: New Solution to a Very Old Problem
- DEFIBRILLATORS & CPR: Imagining a World with All the AEDs We Need
- NATIONAL SAFETY MONTH: Heed These Summer Safety Tips
- IH/GAS DETECTION: The No Maintenance Myth
- HAND PROTECTION: The Importance of Periodically Reevaluating Your PPE
- HAND PROTECTION: More Choices, More Challenges for Choosing Hand Protection
- OIL & GAS: Four Steps to Quickly Evaluate Produced Water Reuse Option Viability
- VISION PROTECTION: Eyes on the Prize: No Injuries
- ASSP SAFETY 2019 PREVIEW: Safety Knowledge and Networking in New Orleans
- FALL PROTECTION: Fall Prevention: Compliance is Not a Control
- ELECTRICAL SAFETY: Creating Efficient Lockout/Tagout Training That Adheres to NFPA 70E
- ELECTRICAL SAFETY: Improving Electrical Safety in Industrial Environments Through Enhanced Technology Capabilities
- HEAT STRESS: Controlling Climate and Managing Heat Stress
- TRAINING: Education, Skill Development, and Behavior Change
- EMPLOYEE GIFTS & INCENTIVES: Keeping Them Healthy is Keeping Them Safe
- EMPLOYEE GIFTS & INCENTIVES: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
- SAFETY MANAGEMENT: What Good Looks Like: Making the Case for Leading Indicators
- EMPLOYEE DRUG & ALCOHOL TESTING: Drugs and Workplace Safety
- EMPLOYEE DRUG & ALCOHOL TESTING: The Value of a Medical Review Officer
- EHS COMPLIANCE: How Mechanical Integrity Inspections Can Help Meet OH&S Goals
Cover Story
By T. A. Rowland III
Virtually all portions and requirements of OSHA's Crystalline Silica Standards are now in effect and enforceable, so immediate compliance is imperative.
Features
By M.B. Sutherland
New equipment, products, or chemicals might make the PPE that was perfect last year less than ideal for what you're doing now. It's also worth asking if any new OSHA rules affect the PPE you choose.
By Ralph Blessing
June is the official start of summer and a good opportunity to consider summer safety.
By Larry Wilson
They're not the same, but it's all called training. . . .
By Darron Wright
When it comes to LOTO training to follow the NFPA 70E standard, three types of employees need to be covered.
By Brian Galonek
Having a highly engaged workforce should be the goal of every department in a company. Engaged employees are simply far more likely to work harder, smarter, and safer.
By Jessica Davis
One of the highlights is a June 12 panel discussion on how increased use and legalization of marijuana affect companies' efforts to maintain drug-free workplaces.
By Jerry Laws
Workers in a wide variety of industries depend on vision protection that complies with ANSI/ISEA Z87.1-2015, American National Standard for Occupational and Educational Personal Eye and Face Protection Devices.
By Cary Usrey
It is not the adoption of leading indicators or the collection of leading indicators that leads to improvement, it is the actions taken with the information that determine success.
By Andy Olson
HVLS fans, fabric diffusers, and curtain walls provide temperature control solutions.
By Nicole Nance
Of all the service agents involved in the testing process, the MRO bears the most significant responsibility for the accuracy and integrity of the testing process.
By Jill A. Clements
Choices in hand protection have grown significantly during the past 30 years.
By Genevieve Pasculli
For both predictive and prescriptive maintenance plans in industrial and manufacturing environments, IIoT technology is an important advancement.
By Sean Roark
Tracking OSHA's shifting position regarding safety incentive programs.
By Richard A. Lazar
In a world with more AEDs, setting up and running a thoughtfully designed, well-prepared, and high-performance AED program is a very attainable goal.
By James A. Greer
The U.S. Department of Labor and the National Institute on Drug Abuse have found that employees who suffer from drug or alcohol dependency are nearly three times more likely to either cause or personally experience an injury-related absence from work.
By Jose Moreno
The key ingredient when working at heights is to not start work until it is safe to do so and create a workplace where your employees feel free to speak up if they feel the right controls are not in place.
By Laura Slansky
After it has been determined what waste water reuse options are physically possible and affordable, the viability determination isn't over until the regulatory, environmental, and social impacts have been determined.
By Keith Taylor
Everything wears out eventually. Our work can help determine when that "eventually" might be—the operational life expectancy.
By Kyle Krueger
People seem to have this yearning to find a gas detector that doesn't need to be bump tested or calibrated (but can magically be ready at any moment to provide the proper detection with 100 percent accuracy).
Departments
By Robert Pater
Understanding how energy works helps leaders move to higher levels of performance.
By Jerry Laws
The regulatory landscape has been very slow to change, my older and wiser self now realizes. Still, I hope that during the past 23 years, we've largely accomplished the spirit of what I promised at the outset.