Leaderships Effects on Employee Health, Well-Being
New research suggests that good leadership has positive effects on employee health and well-being, including decreased sick leave and disability, reports the August Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Researchers: Black Professional Women Pressured to Fit White Expectations
In their paper, Keep Your 'N' In Check: African American Women and the Interactive Effects of Etiquette and Emotional Labor, sociologists Marlese Durr,...
The Benefits of a 4-Day Workweek
Rex Facer and Lori Wadsworth of BYUs Romney Institute of Public Management examined the outcome of Spanish Fork Citys transition to a schedule in which...
Imperial Sugar Operations VP Recounts Unsafe Conditions Prior to Blast
When Graham joined Imperial Sugar in November 2007, he spent 5 days touring the Port Wentworth refinery. The conditions, he said, were It was, without...
NSC Focuses on Future Safety Professionals
Full-time college students working toward careers in safety, health and environmental programs are eligible for the free NSC memberships, with benefits...
Young Workers at Higher Risk of On-the-Job Injury
Just 54 percent of businesses surveyed by Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America, a workers comp insurer based in Lansing, Mich., planned to provide any...
New CSB Safety Video Stresses Safe Hot Work Practices
The victims were employees of Stringer's Oilfield Services, an independent contract firm hired by Partridge-Raleigh to perform maintenance on oil storage...
Smurfit-Stone Facilities Win Honors From the Pulp & Paper Safety Association
Smurfit-Stone is extremely proud of its safety record and of the employees at these facilities, said President and COO Steven J. Klinger. We take great...
Pump Up Productivity By Helping Employees Save on Gas
Roy Saunderson, author of Giving: The Real Recognition Way and president of Recognition Management Institute, a consulting firm helping companies develop...
International Safety: New Declaration Promotes Safety and Health at Work
Meeting prior to the XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, the first Safety and Health Summit included international leaders, government...
Safety 2008: NIOSHs Howard: Bring Value to Business Through Wellness Initiatives
Howard said the purpose of the WorkLife Initiative is to sustain and improve worker health through better work-based programs, policies and practices....
Froetscher Named NSC President, CEO
According to Joseph J. Ucciferro, Chairman of NSCs board of directors, Froetscher brings strong professional experience in nonprofit strategic operations,...
Mobile Phones: Are They More Dangerous Than Smoking?
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, according to a study by Dr. Vini Khurana, a neurosurgeon and award-winning cancer expert,...
Off-the-Job Safety: Staying Safe on Summer Road Trips
While often overlooked in the safe driving world, kids can present parents with dangerous distractions while driving. Simple, preventative measures can...
Personal Productivity Equipment Boosts Safety
Any occupational health and safety professional knows that PPE stands for personal protective equipment. But when EMCOR Group Inc. developed the concept of “personal productivity equipment,” the acronym took on a whole new meaning...
ASSE Urges Bush to Reinstate Howard as NIOSH Head
ASSE recently learned that CDCs leadership will not renew Dr. Howards 6-year appointment as NIOSH director, the group wrote in a May 22 letter to the...
New Skills Help Older Workers Compete in Job Market
On the whole, there is still a good demand for people who want to work, said Ryan Zimmerman, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the universitys business...
ACOEM Launches Workplace Health and Productivity Toolkit
HPM is an emerging concept built on the idea that health and productivity are closely linked, are measurable and can be influenced through programs that...
June 3-5 is Roadcheck 2008
Roadcheck is sponsored each year by Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA). The event calls on federal, state, provincial and local officers to conduct...
California Program Targets Employers Not Carrying Workers Comp Insurance
Through this new enforcement program we will be able to systematically identify unlawfully uninsured employers to prioritize as enforcement targets, said...
Preventing Workplace Violence
Dave Logan, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business and the co-founder and senior partner of the workplace culture consulting firm CultureSync, is a co-author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build Thriving Organizations, a book examining organizational culture within companies. ...
Combating Workplace Sleep Deprivation
Hectic work schedules and busy personal lives cause many people to occasionally – or regularly – sacrifice a good night’s sleep. But according to this sleep science expert, not getting enough rest can lead to some serious safety and health consequences in the workplace...
Workers Memorial Day: Events Around the Globe Commemorate Workers, Stress Need for Safety
In Los Angeles, the Southern California Collation for Occupational Safety and Health (SoCalOSH), UCLA-LOSH and WORKSAFE will hold a public funeral procession...
Workers Memorial Day: UAW-GM Promotes a Culture of Safety
Workers Memorial Day was established in the United States in 1989 to recognize workers who were killed or injured on the job and has since become an international...
The Principles of Green Chemistry
Green chemistry, which focuses in part on manufacturing, designing or using products and processes to reduce or eliminate threats to human health or the...
