Keep Your Office Safe From Electrical Hazards
According ESFI, overloaded electrical circuits pose both an electrocution and fire hazard. While the number of outlets in offices often is a factor that...
NIOSH to Launch Safety-Through-Design Initiative
NIOSH is calling the initiative Prevention Through Design, or In PtD, occupational safety and health is an important component in the design of workplace...
Do You Work for One of America's Safest Companies?
To help you answer that question, consider that previous America's Safest Companies honorees share a number of common traits. Those traits include: Lost-time...
Foulke Kicks Off NAOSH Week
Flanked by winners of the ASSE Kids Safety on the Job poster contest, Foulke expressed his amazement at how the children were able to illustrate the necessary...
9 Keys for Directing Attention to Safety
Ignore it and hope it will improve. This is a common organizational approach and can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If leaders do not pay attention,...
Improving Compliance Through Accurate MSDSs and Hazmat Inventory
In the hazmat world today, most large organizations follow a time-honored process for identifying critical compliance needs and spend the money necessary...
Elevating Safety to New Heights
Two workers were injured, one fatally, in a tragic fall at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds during the installation of a banner in the food court, approximately...
Asbestos Prevention Tips for Mechanics
Current Best Practices for Preventing Asbestos Exposure Among Brake and Clutch Repair Workers provides health and safety information for professional...
The Road to Wellness
In 1989, Fort Atkinson, Wis.-based Highsmith Inc. looked on the horizon and saw a gathering storm. We were faced with a 53 percent increase in our group...
Active Agenda: Hot Work and Hot-Work Permits
Many will recognize that quote as belonging to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but the words just as easily could have been spoken by a maintenance person refusing...
Fire Safety 101 for the Safety Professional
In theory, fire responsibilities appear to correlate with the safety professionals basic safety-related duties. However, the knowledge base required in...
Small Business Safety: Climbing Higher
In today's global economy, safety consultant Jonathan Klane of Fairfield, Maine, has found that most business operations have been downsized to a lean...
Governors Release Homeland Security Guide
The guide contains practical advice for governors on how to organize their states to prepare for and respond to hazards of all kinds effectively. It shares...
ANSI Approves Standard for Use of Hoists
ANSI A10.22-2007 Safety Requirements for Rope-Guided and Non-Guided Workers' Hoists is one of a series of standards that focus on construction and demolition...
Labor Department Applauds Agencies' Safety Efforts
In a Feb. 15 awards ceremony in the Labor Department's Frances Perkins Building, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Treasury, the Department...
Study Challenges Link Between Overtime, Safety
Although working very long hours is linked to an increased risk of certain types of health and safety problems for particular groups of industrial employees,...
Kentucky Governor Proposes Social Worker Safety Bill
The measure, called the "Boni Frederick Memorial Bill," was named after 67-year-old social worker Boni Frederick, who was stabbed and beaten when she...
Strategies for Laboratory EHS Programs
In its white paper titled "Three Proven Strategies for Upgrading Your Laboratory Environmental Health and Safety Program," Newton, Mass.-based consulting...
Tips for Working Safely in Cold Weather
"Maine has many occupations that involve working in very cold conditions," Maine Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman said. "Men and women who work in construction,...
Designed for Safety
By David Ayers Establishing procedures is as important to reducing hazards as it is to maintaining business operations on all levels. Procedures spell...
Several VPP Firsts Achieved by Wis. Contractor
"They were extremely helpful in teaching us what we needed to do and how we needed to do it to get from the Challenge Pilot phase to the VPP approval...
Off-the-Job Safety: Use Your Head During the Holidays
During the winter holidays, people tend to be absorbed in celebration and may not be as careful as usual. That's why the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) is reminding people that many injuries can be prevented by removing potential hazards inside and outside the home, following proper driving precautions and playing sports safely...
Ford Motor Co. Rolls Out a New Safety Model
by Paul English When the Chicago Assembly Plant opened its doors in 1924, Model T's were rolling off the assembly line. The plant produced 4,211 Model...
NAOSH Week to Focus on Transportation Safety
NAOSH Week 2007 will kick off with a May 7 event at the Department of Labor in Washington, D.C., followed by an ASSE awards ceremony on Capitol Hill....
Nanotech Conference: Advice for Start-Ups
"As small companies, you have to do something now," Maher said Monday, addressing attendees of the International Conference on Nanotechnology Occupational...
