Workplace Violence to Big Rigs – Celebrating 20 Years of Studying Workplace Hazards
To study the air that workers in auto repair shops breathe, analysts with the SHARP Program, the research group at the Department of Labor & Industries, bought a hunting vest and stuffed it with measuring devices, including several filters and three different air pumps...
Employee Benefits: Which Ones Are Surviving the Weak Economy?
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) released a new report showing that 63 percent of HR professionals say the economic recession negatively affected their organization's employee benefit offerings “to some extent,” over the past year...
MSHA Announces Underground Investigation of Upper Big Branch Mine
MSHA announced that the federal team investigating the April 5 explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine will begin its underground examination the week of June 28. Investigators previously had been prevented from beginning their physical probe underground due to conditions resulting from the explosion...
EU-OSHA: Safety and Health Spending is an Investment, Not a Cost
In conjunction with the release of the agency’s 2009 annual report, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) Director Jukka Takala stressed that “spending on workplace health and safety should be seen as an investment and not a cost.”...
House Hearing Raises Questions on Safety Protections for Offshore Oil Workers
During a June 23 hearing, House Education and Labor Committee members raised serious questions regarding important worker safety protections on offshore oil rigs like the Deepwater Horizon...
MSD Injuries, Health Problems Force Roofers Into Early Retirement
Sixty percent of roofers who exited the trade within 1 year left their jobs due to chronic pain, work-related musculoskeletal disorders and poor health, according to research published in the American Journal of Industrial Hygiene...
EPA to Seek Employee Participation in Chemical Safety Inspections
EPA has released an interim guidance that would provide greater transparency in the agency’s chemical safety inspections process. Under the interim guidance, EPA inspectors will offer employees and employee representatives the opportunity to participate in chemical safety inspections...
EPA Supports Superfund “Polluter Pays” Provision
EPA sent a letter to Congress in support of reinstating the lapsed Superfund “polluter pays” taxes. Superfund is the federal government's program that investigates and cleans up the nation's most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites...
Labor Inspector General: MSHA Knowingly Overlooked Mines with Serious Safety Records
On June 23, the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General reported that the agency found serious problems with how MSHA identifies the nation’s most dangerous mines for tighter scrutiny...
Nanomaterials: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Two experts from Wake Forest University School of Medicine discussed the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of nanomaterials at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Safety 2010 conference in Baltimore...
The Power of Rest and Why It Can Help Employees
Sleep, rest, and body clock expert Dr. Matthew Edlund has identified an ongoing health crisis. After years of clinical research and consultations with hundreds of patients, he discovered that many people aren’t just sleep-deprived, they’re rest-deprived...
Consumer Responses to Gulf Oil Spill Reflect Americans' Changing Corporate Expectations
Just as President Barack Obama called for in his address to the nation, Americans are demanding that BP and all other companies be responsible to both their shareholders and society, according to a new report from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business...
CSB to Investigate Deepwater Horizon Blowout
In response to a request from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to conduct a full and thorough investigation into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) Chairman John Bresland pledged to investigate the accidental chemical release that destroyed the rig – but also stressed that such an investigation may pose a challenge to the board’s resources...
Consortium to Study, Minimize Effects of Gulf Oil Spill
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is partnering with two Louisiana institutions to determine the myriad impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and to devise and implement possible solutions to the disaster...
Protecting IT Systems During Hurricane Season
As state and local governments look ahead to a potentially severe hurricane season, CDW Government offers seven tips for well-managed disaster preparedness plans to prevent costly downtime and help maintain important citizen services...
OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Directive Is In Effect
OSHA’s Severe Violators Enforcement Program (SVEP) directive became effective June 18...
Where is the Safest Work in America?
The Textile Rental Services Association of America (TRSA) recently released the results of a statistical analysis that measured national trends in total reportable cases (TRC) and adapted them to U.S. metropolitan areas. This analysis gives local perspective to the national data on decreasing illness and injury cases and recognizes the progress American businesses have made in ensuring workplace safety...
National Safety Month: Prevent Overexertion at Work and at Home
The National Safety Council (NSC) recently launched its Preventing Overexertion at Work and at Home Week during National Safety Month, an annual observance to increase education about the top causes of preventable injuries and deaths in June...
ASSE 2010: Stop Chasing Ghosts in Accident and Fatality Prevention
Larry Wilson of SafeStart had a message for hundreds of attendees at ASSE Safety 2010: Stop chasing the erroneous belief that other aspects of the EHS program must be addressed before turning to the behavioral side of safety. Instead, he explained, we should all take a hard look at our behavior now and consider how it affects our personal safety, both on and off the job, in order to prevent accidents and fatalities...
ASSE 2010: Integrating EHS into the Business
David Steinbacher, MPH, CSP, of ZymoGenetics Inc., provided a strategic overview of EHS planning during a session at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Safety 2010 conference and expo in Baltimore...
ASSE 2010: Implementing U.S.-Style Construction Safety and Health Programs in Africa, Asia and Mexico
Understanding culture and communicating effectively are key components in establishing safe construction projects in foreign countries, according to John H. Johnson, CSP, of Black & Veatch. In a June 15 ASSE Safety 2010 session in Baltimore, Johnson addressed the challenges and best practices for implementing construction safety and health programs in parts of the world such as Africa, Asia and Mexico...
ASSE 2010: Dr. Nigel Ellis, Bradley Giles and Edward Grund Honored by ASSE at Professional Development Conference
In recognition of outstanding service and dedication to the safety profession, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) recently named members Dr. J. Nigel Ellis of Wilmington, Del., and Bradley Giles of Boise, Idaho, as society fellows and Edward V. Grund of Parrish, Fla., as this year’s recipient of the Thomas F. Bresnahan Safety, Health and Environment (SH&E) Standards Medal...
ASSE 2010: Management Strategies to Survive the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath
In the June 15 opening session of ASSE Safety 2010, Geoffrey Colvin, senior editor for Fortune magazine, gave attendees an overview of what business leaders can do to respond to the financial crisis and come out stronger on the other side – by better understanding risk, creating new solutions to new problems, upgrading employees and more...
ASSE 2010: David Michaels Outlines Goals, Hopes for the Future of Occupational Safety and Health
In a packed plenary session at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Safety 2010 conference on June 14, OSHA Administrator David Michaels provided a whirlwind overview of the agency’s recent actions and encouraged safety professionals to get involved and help shape the agency’s future...
ASSE 2010: Author Andrew Winston Wants Companies to Turn Green into Gold
Green is “a powerful trend shaping business, the way we eat and the way we live our lives,” Andrew Winston, author of the book “The Green Recovery” and co-author of the best-selling book “Green-to-Gold,” told a standing room-only audience during the opening keynote session of the professional development conference of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) in Baltimore. Wilson is the director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. He also has helped companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value and build stronger relationships with employees, customers and other stakeholders. His clients include Bank of America, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA...
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