Jackie Gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, has high hopes for increasing highway safety through the pending surface transportation bill.
The main risk is the person doing something unexpectedly themselves, like making a mistake. People don't evaluate that kind of risk very well or very readily.
Some companies see LOTO as a burden. But it is a competitive advantage to those willing to develop a program that is not only safe and compliant, but also highly efficient.
Employees must have a clear understanding of whom to go to with a complaint and how this is to be reported. There should be no confusion.
When a safety manager explains what PPE he or she is recommending and why, that should be persuasive, says orthopedic surgeon Dr. Gregory C. Berlet, who sees the damage a severe crush injury leaves behind.
The conflict between employers' love affair with effective safety incentive programs and OSHA’s concern that those same programs may encourage under-reporting has gone on virtually since the OSH Act became law in April 1971.
Behavioral science has proven countless times that both positive and punishing consequences affect our behavior.
Are you seeing all of the barriers to protective eyewear compliance?
Some may assume that the lion's share of the responsibility is upstream, but downstream employers are not exempt.
What training have they had? Are they qualified to the NFPA 70E standard and to 29 CFR 1910.332, 1910.333, and 1910.269?
Safety Data Sheets will for the most part grow exponentially. And they still will be written by technical professionals for technical professionals.
2010 ACGIH guidelines provide an impetus for companies to collect H2S monitor data, allowing them to evaluate and refine their safety and hygiene programs.
Electrical workplace safety deficiencies are among the top 10 violations most frequently cited by OSHA.
Here's the story of how two OH&S case studies lead to a new national standard.
Committee members are hard at work on the 2014 edition of the Guidelines for Design and Construction of Health Care Facilities.
They work in unison to help ensure that should a shower or facial flush become necessary, there is little risk of the injury's becoming more aggravated.
If injury potential is so predictable, why are employees so surprised when they are injured? Eye injuries may be predictable, but the exposures are not always apparent.