Families of Lost Workers Demand Family Bill of Rights
Claiming that entities such as companies and the government receive special rights that should be granted to workplace victims family members, a group...
Turning Clocks Back Increases Risk of Drowsy Driving
Once we move the clocks back, the drive home from work or school for many [is likely] in the dark, says Fraydun Manocherian, founder and chairman of NRSF,...
Mental Health: Employees Call for Better Communication
Some 94 percent of employees with medical benefits said their stress level affects job performance and 36 percent said stress affects productivity. Yet,...
America's Safest Companies: Passionate about Safety
Some companies still believe that on-the-job injuries and illnesses are a cost of doing business. Our honorees see things quite differently, said Stephen...
America's Safest Companies: Passionate about Safety
America's Safest Companies, founded in 2002 by Occupational Hazards, a Penton Media Inc. publication, is a corporate award honoring the safest companies...
Eight Major Mistakes (Or, What Not to Do When Workers' Compensation Rates Drop)
Throughout much of the country, declining workers compensation rates are music to employers ears. After all, that seems like long-awaited good news, particularly...
Tracking Moving Targets
Vehicle restraints were invented to help stop horrific incidents in which a forklift tumbles from a loading dock, crippling or killing its driver. For...
Governor Rendell Lauds Workplace Safety Program for Protecting 1 Million Workers
The hardworking men and women who make up Pennsylvania's workforce deserve the safest workplaces we can provide, said Gov. Edward Rendell. Making workplaces...
Driving Continuous Improvement in Plant Safety
The performance-punishing nature of poor workplace design is a persistent issue filled with musculoskeletal injuries and rising medical care costs. Many...
Liberty Mutual Driver Survey: Costs of Crashes on the Rise
Looking at loss sources, the study assigned an injury type based on the activity being performed when the injury occurred. The study found that the frequency...
OSHA Guidance To Help Prevent Maritime Traffic Accidents
This new guidance will help employers design and implement a traffic safety program for vehicles and pedestrians. A traffic safety program should address...
Active Agenda: Implementation Road Map
Many years ago, I attended a great training course. The course was called Consulting for Organizational Effectiveness, and Ill never forget a question...
'Disturbing' MSHA Enforcement Deficiencies Revealed in Report
The 650-page report, released on June 28, provided internal reviews of each of the mines, resulting in 153 recommendations that, according to the agency,...
Cal/OSHA: Protect Workers From Summer Heat
s important that employers apply precautions and safety measures as required under Californias heat illness prevention standard to all their employees...
Reduce Workers' Comp Costs with CompScore Metrics
How do companies keep score in workers' compensation? Typically, insurance carriers provide basic or top-of-the-line measurements, such as annual totals...
Keeping Lawyers Out
Nothing against lawyers, but litigation sparked by a workers' compensation claim can be expensive, time-consuming and often downright nasty. That's why employers need to realize that once a legitimate claim has been approved, their work has just begun...
ASSE: The Myths of Safety
Three hundred seals, 2,800 sea otters, 250,000 sea birds and a host of other wildlife were killed by that spill, acknowledged Corrie Pitzer, an industrial...
Workzone Visibility
Informing safety, health and industrial hygiene professionals in the manufacturing, construction, and service sectors about trends, management strategies, regulatory news and new products that help them provide safe and healthy work sites....
ASSE: Safe and Sorry?
Hart, who works as a corporate psychologist for the nonprofit Industrial Foundation for Accident Prevention (IFAP) in Australia, has collected quantitative...
Partnership Improves Ergonomics at USPS
Through interventions such as the use of container tilters, flexible vacuum hose nozzles, pallet lifters and adjustable work platforms, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) – with the help of OSHA and USPS' unions – over the past 3 years has reduced its musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) recordable rates and its workers' compensation costs...
AIHce: Improving Return-to-Work Times
In a presentation at the 2007 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo in Philadelphia, occupational health consultant Dr. Peter Greaney of California-based...
The Ethics of Safety
In the last Leadership column, we discussed the motivations for leaders to improve safety human compassion, building a performance platform and contributing...
Training From Hell
Are you the type of trainer who shows up late and forgets to bring handouts? The type of trainer who uses foul language, takes cell phone calls, chews...
Safety Management: Nothing Special
Safety management traditionally means safety programs, committees, rules and inspections. Companies that have average safety systems like this can find...
Active Agenda: Project Update
In its first 3 months, Active Agenda went from the 30,000th most popular sourceforge.net project to the 160th. We since have learned the ranking can be...
