Don't Let Workplace Health and Safety Run Your Life, HSE Says
"I'm sick and tired of hearing that 'health and safety' is stopping people doing worthwhile and enjoyable things when at the same time others are suffering...
Safety Hits Home
Meet Rover. He is an affable hound and a persistent home safety champion. His light-bulb nose goes "code red" when he sniffs out danger, while his trusty...
Forklift Safety Secrets
Load charts, identification plates, load capacity plates: Whatever you call them, they are the least looked at and least understood item on a forklift....
Survey Says: Uncovering Employees' Views about Safety
There are those who still think that effective safety programs result solely from adhering to compliance issues despite substantial evidence to the contrary....
Spiraling Out of Control: 5 ways to Reduce Workers' Compensation Claims
by Rob Wilson One of the biggest expenses affecting small businesses is workers' compensation insurance, which covers expenses associated with injuries...
Managing the Body's Time Clock in the 24-7 Economy
Ever since the dawn of time, humans have been hardwired to work during the day and sleep at night. Yet millions of Americans earn their paychecks by working...
Generation Y Safety: The Challenges of Reaching the Under-30 Worker
When it comes to under-30 workers' approach to safety and their trainability safety professionals such as Mike Byington of LaCrosse, Wisc.-based Inland...
Protecting a Multilingual Work Force
In August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics jolted those working with foreign-born workers when it released a census of fatal occupational injuries for...
VPP: What it Takes to be a Star
It's a little ironic. John Storm wants to take time out of his schedule to talk about his facility's participation as a Star site in OSHA's Voluntary...
The Alternative Work Force: Safety Challenges When Employees Work Remotely
It is estimated that between 30 and 40 million people in the United States are now either telecommuters or home-based employees. Sales and service personnel,...
Just Right! (Part II)
Last month, in Part 1 of "Just Right!", we discussed the advent of a specific outlet water temperature range for emergency drench showers and eyewashes....
Ready...at a Moment's Notice!
An alarm goes off someone has been injured and the time for preparation is over. The appropriate responders automatically swing into action. This is where...
Does "Up to Code" Mean Up to Snuff?
Most commercial buildings meet current safety codes for exit and emergency lighting. But does that make them safe? Given the recent state of catastrophic...
GE's Crash Course in Culture Change
The GE Energy business maintains a worldwide network of service centers, which they refer to as Inspection and Repair Services(I&RS), for the servicing...
Sharing Lessons Learned
Let that be a lesson to you!" We've all heard that admonition and conveyed it to others, often over and over about the same lesson. Clearly, there is...
What Every Employer Should Know about Drug Testing in the Workplace
A Gallup Survey of employees conducted by the Institute for a Drug-Free Workplace found that 37 percent of all respondents said that workplace drug use...
Breaking the Cycle of Mistrust to Build a Positive Safety Culture
The OSHA recordable rate was at 12.8. Then, a near-fatality shocked employees and managers. Bob, a 30-year-old with two children, barely escaped with...
2004 National Safety Survey
It's not hard to find common ground among respondents to the National Safety Survey. Safety and health professionals work in a demanding world of too...
Bechtel: Striving to be the Best
'At Bechtel Group Inc., the safety challenge is protecting 47,000 employees in 35 countries from injury and illness while tackling massive construction...
The Power of Positive Safety
As director of risk management services for R&R Insurance, an insurance agency based in Waukesha, Wis., Frank Wegner visits a lot of workplaces and he...
Solving Accident Investigation Problems
Many employers have not established comprehensive accident investigation policies. Even among those who have, many never actually follow-through with...
Integrated Safety Plans go far in Ensuring Worker Safety
There are many compelling reasons to reduce the number of work-related injuries. The biggest motivation is protecting your company's most valuable asset:...
Taking the Safety Improvement Journey
Since the inception of OSHA over 30 years ago, great improvements have taken place in workplace safety. Beginning with regulatory compliance, continuing...
The Safety Scorecard: Using Multiple Measures to Judge Safety\r\nSystem Effectiveness
Measuring the effectiveness of an organization's safety system has been a particularly difficult problem for all organizations. We have been uncomfortable...
Substituting Safer Materials
For decades, American Finish and Chemical Co. (AFCO), Chelsea, Mass., was in the shoe business, supplying cements and solvents to footwear manufacturers....
