Safety Best Practices
Flip-Flops vs. Gray Hair: Managing Generation Clashes in the Workplace
In one corner of the office we have an experienced, competitive baby boomer. In the other, a confident, multi-tasking Generation Y employee who expects to shoot to the top and then move on – all while wearing flip-flops. When they meet, expect fireworks...
OSHA Listens: Panel Discusses OSHA Enforcement, Outreach
As part of its March 4 “OSHA Listens” public meeting, OSHA Administrator David Michaels and other agency personnel met with stakeholders from a wide range of groups to discuss key issues facing the agency...
How Supervisors Can Promote and Manage Safety in Operations
By understanding two fundamental questions and leading by example, supervisors can encourage their employees to work safely, according to Paul D. Balmert, a consultant with years of experience as a line manager in the chemical industry. In an interview with EHS Today, Balmert discussed managing safety in operations and offered some practical tips for supervisors...
Cultivating an Actively Caring Culture: The Courage and Compassion of an Injury-Free Workplace
Martin Luther King Jr. said, “It may be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the blaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the appalling silence of the so-called good people.”...
Accidents Waiting to Happen: The Five Crucial Conversations that Drive Workplace Safety
Discussions about the true threats to safety at your workplace might be uncomfortable, but they are crucial if you truly want to reduce workplace injuries and illnesses...
Nurturing and Celebrating Our Future Leaders
It’s not enough to ensure that our workplaces are safe today. We have to ensure they will be safe in 10, 20 or 30 years, when we’re not around anymore...
New Report Address Work-Life Conflict Across Income Levels
On Jan. 25, the Center for American Progress and the Center for WorkLife Law at the UC Hastings College of the Law released a new report that analyzes the struggle millions of American families face in attempting to balance work and life responsibilities...
ASSE Offers Workplace Violence Prevention Tips
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) members urged employers to take action now to reduce the incidence of homicides in their workplace...
Illinois Bans Texting While Driving
Beginning Jan. 1, texting while driving officially is banned in Illinois. The state joins 18 other states and the District of Columbia in banning drivers from text messaging while driving...
The Basics of Lockout/Tagout Compliance: Creating an Effective Program
In part 1 of a three-part series about lockout/ tagout compliance, the author examines the importance of lockout/tagout and the components of an effective program...
EHS TODAY ROUNDTABLE: Economics, Regulations, Connections and Mentoring
We questioned EHS leaders about current and future regulations, the issues impacting the practice of occupational health and safety and the importance of mentoring future leaders. Here is what they had to say...
America's Safest Companies Go Beyond Zero
AMEC Earth & Environmental Inc., the Concrete Pipe Division of CEMEX, Medtronic Inc., Morin Actuator, RQ Construction Inc., Trendmaker Homes, Trihydro Corp. and Wood Group Power Plant Services have earned the right to call themselves America’s Safest Companies...
NSC: A Million Acts of Safety
During the opening session of the 97th annual National Safety Council (NSC) 2009 Congress and Expo in Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 26, NSC Board Chairman Joseph Uccifero and President and CEO Janet Froetscher discussed A Million Acts of Safety, an initiative designed to save 10,000 lives and prevent 1 million injuries in the next 5 years...
Risk Control Hierarchy Clarifies Electrical Safety
A clear and realistic set of objectives goes a long way in driving continuous improvements in electrical safety. Resources can be allocated and priorities can be defined once objectives are set...
Networking Safety - Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
Unfortunately, properly designed safety implementations using light curtains, e-stops and door interlock switches based on traditional techniques using...
Pickaway Plains EMS Goes Electronic
The jump from scribbled, handwritten notecards to electronic recordkeeping improved efficiency by leaps and bounds for one company...
Practice Safety and Common Sense When Handling Compressed Gas Cylinders
Compressed gases are hazardous due to their ability to create harmful environments that are either flammable, oxygen enriched or oxygen sdeficient...
Saving Lives on the Loading Dock
By focusing on safety on the loading dock, employers can avoid deadly and costly forklift-pedestrian accidents...
Motivating Employees in Tough Times
Despite tough economic times, a new white paper indicates there are steps employers can take to sustain employee engagement...
Safety 2009: How Stages of Change Influence Safety Behaviors
Dianne Stober, Ph.D., explains how safety professionals can use this cognitive-behavioral safety approach to encourage positive change in employees and create a safer workplace...
OSHA Offers Safety Tips for Hot Weather Work
The hot, hazy days of summer can spell trouble for those who work outdoors in direct sunlight or in hot environments, making them susceptible to heat-induced illnesses such as heat stress, heat exhaustion or the more serious heat stroke...
Creating a Culture of Construction Workplace Safety Around the Globe
At Skanska USA, workplace safety is more than a motto or a mantra and more than a set of rules and regulations on the company intranet...
NSC: Drivers Are More Distracted Than They Realize
Study suggests drivers tend to overestimate their driving skills and underestimate their distraction caused by other activities while they drive...
What Do Your Workers Really Think About Safety?
A safety perception survey can tell you if management and employees are on the same page about EHS efforts....
Van Holten's Pickles Connects with Safety and Savings
One company's solution to an electrical safety challenge provided an easier and safer way to connect and disconnect pumps, conveyors and other equipment....
